Hey eaglecall,
What about the vitamins, minerals, etc. that are stored in your body?
Do you think it necessary to ‘top off the tank’ every day?
Any danger in having too much? How to know?
And do you think your body is designed to absorb / utilize concentrated,
above what is necessary, amounts of nutrients daily? (Think supplements.)
Thank you.
Again, I am not a doctor and I have no degree in any field of medical science. All I know is what I have learned in my own free time in a few years studying from naturopathic doctors who claim knowledge based on real scientific studies.
You are correct, the body store nutrients in the organs and bones, being the most important, minerals. Is there a risk in "topping off the tank"? short answer, no. BUT, if you put in your body astronomical doses of nutrients, of course theres always a possibility of overwhelming an organ and reach toxic levels. That though, is hard to happen. Some people will argue hearing from doctors about the dangers of vitamin E, or certain vitamin B, but those studies are inaccurate. Those studies have been based on generic synthetic forms of vitamins that the body can hardly absorb, and in high doses can be dangerous, even in some cases, lethal. But in the perfect scenario that you could get all your essential nutrients from a well balanced diet, I see it almost impossible to intoxicate yourself with nutrients. Even if you use good quality supplements whole food derived with liquid colloidal minerals, you would have to really over dose them to reach some toxic level.
Now if it is "necessary" to top off the tank, not really. In naturopathic science, it is already scientifically studied and determined how much of each nutrient each human body requires daily based on age, weight, gender, height, lifestyle. So in the mainstream medicine, you don't go to walmart and buy a box of antibiotics if you're sick. You go to the doctor first and he prescribe you how much to take and how often. In the naturopathic field it should be something similar. We should have access to naturopathic primary care doctors and they are more than able to prescribe for us the right doses of nutrients to take. But we don't have that option. So what I personally do, yes, I top off the tank, of course just "guessing" that Im putting in my body a little bit more nutrients than I really need. Will the body absorb/utilize whatever is extra? No. The body can store and use a certain amount, the rest that is not needed gets disposed.
And that principle has created some controversy and myths throughout the years. A perfect example is kidney stones.
Kidney stones in the vast majority of cases are made of Calcium. The logical process of allopathic medicine, which is corrupt, barbaric, outdated and the wrong specialty for chronic diseases, says that "if kidney stones are made of Calcium, that means there is too much calcium in the blood and is piling up in the kidneys. Therefore solution, stop calcium, avoid calcium, avoid any products with calcium for the rest of your life" Eventually down the road your knees collapse, your hips break down, but they put you knee replacement, hip replacement, and you end up a broke frankestein and you die from calcium deficiency.
It turns out, proven by naturopathic medicine, kidney stones mean one thing: Severe low levels of Calcium, an important essential mineral. When the body is chronically low on Calcium, the only way it has to reach homeostasis, is to start releasing Calcium to the blood from storage. That means it takes it mostly from the bones. It does this through the "parathyroid" glands. But it turns out, if the person is chronically low in Calcium, most probably is chronically low in other key essential minerals that control the parathyroid glands. When that happens, these little glands go out of whack and keep releasing too much calcium into the blood. All that extra Calcium piles up in the kidneys forming stones. To make it worse, allopathic doctors keep you away from Calcium and thats how people end up with arthritis, rheumatism, joint issues, etc. The majority of the population is low on calcium anyways so joint problems are VERY common these days in old people, and these problems are presenting at younger ages more and more due to the same cause.
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