1. What are nutritional deficiencies and what do they do to your health?
2. What to expect when taking Whole Food Vitamins.
3. Peripheral Neuropathy Patients Who Take Diabetes Drug May have a Vitamin B12 Deficiency
4. Vitamin C may stop Diabetes Damage

What are nutritional deficiencies and what do they do to your health?    

  A deficiency is basically a nutrient that your body does not have enough of to function properly.  

  What if you forgot to put enough oil in you car?   Despite the fact that it was getting the air, gas, functioning spark plugs and good combustion, the car wouldn’t work properly.  Sure the piston would go up and down and the car would move forward – just like normal.  But soon the engine might run a little hot.  Down in the engine different things might start happening.  The rings around the piston that stopped oil from getting up into the combustion area might be giving way.  The normal straight camshaft might start to bend a little.   The engine just won’t work right. Perhaps the car will need a small repair, or maybe a major overhaul – or ignored the engine will just seize up and “die”. 

It’s the same with your body – except that you can’t just buy another engine and repairs made to a damaged body might not put things back together again.

Let’s look at some of the many varied things that can happen when you don’t put the needed nutrients into the body, and wind up with a deficiency.

Gingivitis is created when plague (sticky deposits of bacteria, mucus and food particles) adheres to the teeth, hardens and irritates the gum. The accumulation causes the gums to become infected and swollen. As the gums swell, pockets form between the gums and the teeth and act as a trap for more plague.  Irritated gums bleed and eventually start to recede.

This irritation can be fought by introducing Vitamin C, which fights the formation of plaque.  Now gingivitis, untreated, can progress to periodontal disease, which means loose teeth and false teeth.   Seems like it would be easier just to get enough C.   C would have fought the formation of plaque to begin with.

Does that sound too easy?  Remember in the fast food lifestyle that we live in, we need a Vitamin C to fight the many problems in that lifestyle – processed foods, polluted air, etc.  You need enough so that your gums get enough.  

Vitamin B12 comes from meat, eggs, fish and milk, but not everyone eats these and they do not eat enough to fight the depletion that happens from day to day living.   Alcohol, coffee, tobacco to name a few can also deplete the body of vitamin B12.  

What happens when you have a deficiency of Vitamin B12?  It can bring about nerve degeneration.  Vitamin B12 supports the sheathing that protects nerve cells. Damage to the nerve sheathing can produce numbness, tingling and the pain. It’s called neuropathy.  Neuropathy can be a side effect of cancer treatments, certain medications, toxins, diabetes, and many other things.    And the funny part about it is that all reasons one can get neuropathy could have been prevented in the first place with the proper nutrients.   

We have all heard the problems from someone smoking, but even if you smoke, you can still take vitamins to compensate for the depletion of vitamins that it causes. 

There are a lot of problems that deficiency causes.  One of the reasons for the website is to help you understand those deficiencies and allow you to fix nutritional deficiencies and build good health. 

Remember when you build good health, disease tends to fade away.

What to expect when taking Whole Food Vitamins.

Definition: Whole food vitamins - supplements made from food and not synthetics made in the laboratory.  Most brands of supplements available today are made from synthetics    These are chemical compounds that have been manufactured in a laboratory to copy the molecular structure of natural vitamins. Your body normally gets nutrients from food.  Thus obtaining your vitamins from whole food supplements, (real food) will allow the body to actually use the nutrients in the supplement.

There are two needs for supplements.  One is to take nutrients that your body needs on a daily basis that you probably don't get in the food you eat.   With today's processed foods which often don't have the all the nutrients you need, it is important to supplement your diet with these nutrients so your body functions properly. 

The second use is to provide the body with the specific nutrients it needs to repair or address the cause of the a body problem.  Deficiencies in essential nutrients can create all sorts of disease.  

What to expect when you take whole food nutrients?   Will it be like a drug that forces the body to do something, but which has side effects because it is foreign to the body?  No.   Reducing or reversing damage can take time. You body has to go through the process of repairing the cells. 

You are constantly making new cells to replace old cells.  Old cells might have been made with insufficient nutrients, well now that you give the body the right nutrients, you will get new healthy cells.

For example, it is well known that a broken bone heals in about 6 weeks.  During that time, the area of the break will continue to hurt on and off even as it gets better.  You may also be aware that if you give your body the nutrients it needs to fix broken bones, the healing will be quicker and you will have less pain. 

So, when you start taking supplements, you may not feel a difference immediately. It takes time for the cells to rebuild and any change or relief from your symptoms tells you that progress is being made and it will continue to get better.

Generally, you will notice a change in the first couple of weeks, but everyone is different.     

An example of this is taking supplements for neuropathy.  The nerves are the most sensitive nerves in the body.   When they are damaged they can create a great deal of pain, numbness, and if a motor nerve is damaged the  muscles will effect a person's coordination..   If you want to just cover up the pain, you can take a drug or a topical cream, but if you want lasting relief, you want to give the body the nutrients it needs to repair any damage.   It make take some time though.  Each person has their own genetic makeup and it can take different amounts of time for this problem to be reversed. 

This is important to know. I’ve known a number of people who gave up taking needed nutrients because they didn’t get quick results thus robbing themselves of the relief that they seek.

Any condition probably took years to create, and although it won't take the same amount of time to fix, give your body some time before you give up on nutritional healing.

Of course, I've known some people who take the needed nutrients and get very quick results.  That can always be the case, but if it takes longer, just know that you will be a healthier person by continuing to give your body what it needs.   

 See what whole food supplements are - http://www.mcvitamins.com/WSN/whole-food-supplements.htm 

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For more information about Vitamin C as a whole food supplement go here http://www.mcvitamins.com/Vitamins/Vitamin-C.htm