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will find the following sections below:
- Overview
- My Own Practice and
Notes
- Side
Note: My Supplement Intake in the Past - Before a RVAF Diet
- Synthetic or "Dead"
versus Live Concentrated Supplements
- Live
Food Concentrated Supplements
- Sources
and Vendors
- Some
Possible Benefits of Live Food Concentrated Supplements
- Some
Notes on Strange Elements as Possible Trace Minerals,
such as Indium, Iridium and Monatomic or
"Super Deformed Nuclei" Elements
- Contacting
the
Author
Overview
My
personal opinion and observation is that even if we eat a largely-raw
diet which includes some animal foods, and from largely organic or
wild-crafted sources, we will likely still need some nutritional
supplements anyway, for each of
the following reasons:
- our
modern soils, even that of many organic farms, may be partially or
largely stripped of nutrients, particularly major minerals and trace
minerals, due to over-farming of said soils over the past 100 years,
and due to effects of acid rain and other airborne and rain-borne
pollutants
- our
bodies are exposed to environmental stressors and toxins, and also
lifestyles, which are simply not the norm for the
biochemistry dictated by our genes, and which were not the norm for our
Paleolithic ancestors. We also tend to cheat on sleep and rest time,
and many of us cannot fully relax. This is all unnatural.
In other words, we have inherited bodies made for a
Paleolithic era, and we are insisting instead upon "living life in the
fast lane".
My
Own Practices and Notes
Even though I have eaten a largely raw diet which includes some raw
animal foods (a RVAF diet), and largely from organic or wild-crafted
sources, for 2.5 years, I have found that my own body does best with
some daily nutritional supplements. I take the following
every day:
- vitamin
C (usually ascorbic acid; usually 1 gram 2x/day)
- vitamins
A and D from fish liver oil
- vitamin
E, usually mixed tocopherols or such mixed with tocotrienols (usually
400 IU per day)
- alpha
lipoic acid, a naturally-occurring antioxidant (usually 100 mg. 2x/day
in the mixed racemic form, simply because it is inexpensive and easily
available)
- MegaH (aka MegaH-),
a source of the primitive primeval hydrogen antioxidant
- electrolyzed
reduced water, or ERW for short, again, as above, a source of the
primitive primeval hydrogen antioxidant (amount depends upon
strength of the ERW, measured usually in millivolts of (negative) ORP)
- calcium
and magnesium mineral supplement (usually carbonates or citrates;
usually
2 grams/day)
- boron
(3 mg to 6 mg per day)
- chromium,
usually in the picolinate form (just because it is cheap and easily
available; 400 mcg. per day)
- selenium
(usually as selenomethionine or from yeast; 400 mcg. to 800 mcg. per
day)
- vanadium
(as vanadyl sulfate, 15 mg., usually twice per week)
- several
wide-spectrum natural mineral supplements, usually from ancient lakebed
or seabed vegetations deposits -- these are usually from humic
shale and montmorrilonite clay deposits in the West,
and
detailed
lab tests which I have commissioned show that many of these supplements
contain at least 77 different elements, which I personally feel that
our
bodies need in trace quantities for optimal functioning. Some of the
brand
names I use are: Mezotrace, Pascalite, Tracemin74 from New World
Minerals,
Coenzyme Minerals ("chelated colloidal from prehistoric vegetation in
humic
shale") from Enzymes International, Clark's colloidal minerals from TJ
Clark)
- sea
vegetables such as kelp and dulse (a small amount in raw dried form)
- indium
(in the form of indium sulfate dissolved in water; about 1 mg. per day;
this is largely redundant due to my supplementation with the forms of
mineral supplementation discussed in the above two bullet items)
- gold
(usually in the form of atomic or small-cluster colloidal gold in
water;
this is largely redundant due to my supplementation with the forms of
mineral supplementation discussed in the above two bullet items)
Speaking
of the minerals I mentioned above... many are also available in
powdered form. I not only feed Azomite (or Elemite) rock dust
to my chickens, ducks, turkeys and geese (I then yield the benefit in
two ways: healthier and happier birds, plus live mineral enriched
eggs), but my friends and I have also experimented with eating a
teaspoon of the stuff every day. Whenever I bake long-ferment
sourdough breads, I throw in a teaspoon or two apiece of Pascalite and
Azomite (Elemite) per 9 cups of flour to help feed the microorganisms
and give them some neat trace elements to convert to a more "live" and
active form.
Side
Note:
My Supplement Intake in the Past - Before a RVAF Diet
Back in the days when I was underweight, fatigued, and had CFS, Lyme
and more than a bit of fibromyalgia (and also extremely frequent and
severe
colds and flus), and while I was on a good (not great) partially cooked
diet (much Paleo, but also lotsa refined wheat), I took many more
supplements
than I do now, and among other things, I also took:
-
NAC
-
COQ10
-
grape seed extract
-
glutathione
-
numerous other things in this vein....
and
I even played with cutting-edge alternative nutritional products like:
-
Cytolog
-
Thymic Protein A (bovine extract)
-
TLC - Thymic longevity Compound
-
MGN3
-
beta glucan and the mixed related glucans
-
monatomic or ORMES minerals (more on these in a section below...)
-
coral calcium (no, not the ones with synthetic Vitamin D added...)
-
DMG
-
calcium pangamate
-
IP6
-
Immunofin
-
strange Ca and Mg preparations developed by Hans Nieper, MD
and a million others, as I knew of them all from my avid
research
work...
However, since going RVAF a couple of years ago, these health
challenges largely dropped away, and then the remnant problems even
more fully dropped away when I slid back from 100% RVAF to 80% to 85%
RVAF with the rest being cooked meat (and, lately, a tad of good
long-ferment sourdough bread...), and my need for any and all
kinds of supplements concomitantly decreased.
However, until going on a RVAF diet, and this is no joke, my yearly
expenditure for nutritional supplements was over $14,000 per
year.... At the time, I considered this a small price to pay
for the extra amount of wakefulness, vitality, alertness and energy
they afforded me each day. Nowadays, my supplement intake is
incredibly tiny compared to my intake in those days.
Synthetic
or "Dead" Versus Live Concentrated Supplements
Some raw foodists are fanatical about supplementing only with
all-natural minerals concentrated from raw plant sources, versus
"synthetic" supplements. I largely agree, but, largely for
economic reasons, I sometimes do use commercial "synthetic" vitamins
such as the vitamin C or ALA discussed above, or human-made forms of
chromium or vanadium, as discussed above. However, I do
prefer
to get my nutrients only from live raw foods, or, as needed, only from
"LIVE" nutritional supplements concentrated, with all their co-factors,
only from live foodstuffs (usually simple plants).
Live Food Concentrated Supplements
I do far prefer to get my nutrients only from live raw foods, or, as
needed, only from "LIVE" nutritional supplements concentrated, with all
their co-factors, only from live foodstuffs (usually simple
plants). One example would be the strange and powerful "live
crystal" form of B12 from Argos Biologicals, Ltd., or the live B12
available from Lifestar, which (company) will be discussed
in
more detail below. There are very few
companies in the world making live-food concentrated nutritional
supplements, such as vitamins, minerals and co-factors such as COQ10,
and these supplements tend to cost a lot more, per milligram, than
their commercial synthetic equivalents. Of course, this
"higher expense" is totally illusory, since personal experience and a
review of the laboratory research shows that, per milligram, the
bio-effects in the body of these live supplements is often 5 to 13
times greater than that of their "dead" and isolated synthetic
counterparts, and often the half-life in the body (the half-life is the
time before half of the stuff is gone from your bloodstream and tissues
via elimination or conversion) of the live supplements is
from three to ten times longer than with the
synthetics. A couple
of good cases in point come to mind, and I will give these examples
below,
but first, a tiny and necessary detour about sources:
Sources and Vendors
Whenever I have purchased live, whole-food nutritional supplements,
my choice over the past five years, after careful research (and from my
unique vantage point of being both a scientist, a wellness consultant,
and a healer with background in energy and spiritual
healing), has
been to purchase such supplements almost exclusively from a company in
Arizona called Lifestar. They carry an
interesting line
of live products, all grown live from plant cells, and concentrated
with
all their co-factors, with little or no heat; their products include
vitamins,
minerals, and a few cofactors, such as COQ10. They call them
"Living
Food Concentrates" and "Organic Food Matrix Supplements".
Lifestar may be reached at 928-202-4302 or 877 793-4191 (U.S.
Mountain Standard Time); their
website may be found at http://www.lifestar.com/
Incidentally,
when I do recommend nutritional products by brand to my wellness
consulting clients, other than MegaH (aka MegaH-) (a source of the
primeval
primal hydrogen antioxidant) and some strange clay minerals, everything
I recommend tends to be live foods concentrate supplements from
Lifestar. I noticed today
that Lifestar also markets Mezotrace, a non-live multimineral
supplement (from prehistoric mineral deposits) with some fascinating
properties. I studied
Mezotrace and a few similar mineral products in my lab a few years ago;
I take Mezotrace myself almost every day.
I
recommend Lifestar's products highly, and have tried most of their live
food concentrate supplements at one time or another, with great
happiness. Lifestar also produces and markets one other
unusual "live" product, one which I used a lot in the two years before
I went to a largely RVAF diet: I had used this product in
response to some health and energy challenges which I had been having
(CFS, Lyme, etc.) before going raw. This unusual product is
produced
from cow's colostrum, and is an "infopeptide" -- it acts as an immune
response modulator -- and is marketed under the name Cytolog.
My girlfriend at the time (she ate a largely Paleo diet, but mostly
cooked, and
not much raw) had been staying here for a few days, and when
she overheard me discussing Cytolog over the fone with a friend, she
perked up and grabbed my research folder on Cytolog (with some results
of research studies, and also lots of anecdotal reports of neat
effects) from my library shelf. To make a long story short,
when she left the next morning for her home, she determinedly took with
her -- with a big smile on her face -- my only remaining sealed bottle
of Cytolog, which had been stored in the back of the fridge since early
2000. I have even encountered raw organic grass-fed Old Order
Mennonite dairy farmers (who usually eat a largely-Paelo, Sally
Fallon-type diet) who go buy a bottle of Cytolog when they get a tooth
abscess or the flu -- this even though they have an unlimited supply of
fresh organic grass-fed raw colostrum at hand! I really have
no desire to talk more about Cytolog here, but if you wish more info on
it, please go to
Lifestar's Cytolog website at http://www.cytolog.com, or call
Lifestar if you wish to ask questions.
Some
Possible Benefits of Live Food Concentrate Supplements
All of which, having been said, now allows me to get back to my
examples:
- research
shows that Lifestar's live-grown vitamin C, per mg. of vitamin C
component, is over 11 times more powerful (antioxidant activity) than
synthetic vitamin C (usually ascorbic acid) and lasts in the
bloodstream and tissues many times longer
- research
shows that Lifestar's live-grown COQ10 (I am not sure if they have this
on the market yet) is about 10 times more powerful than commercial
synthetic COQ10, is more absorbable, and lasts far longer in the body.
Some
Notes on Strange Elements as
Possible Trace Minerals
Notes
on Indium as a Nutritional Supplement
I personally love indium, and my only caveat is this: if your diet,
like mine, is largely RVAF (raw vegetation and animal foods), there is
no need to take anywhere near the amount shown on the label of most of
the brands of nutritional indium supplements on the market, but only
one-third
to one-sixth the dosage, or even less. It seems,
based upon
my own experience, that when we eat largely raw and Paleo, our bodies
seem to uptake indium more efficiently, use it more effectively, and
thus need less of it. Further, we likely get ten to a hundred
times as much indium in our diets as folks on a largely-processed and
not-organic diet. Interestingly, one of the really odd
effects of taking indium (and we are here talking only about a
milligram or two per day..., a tiny amount) is that it seems
-- according to Western scientific lab studies in the peer-reviewed
literature -- to increase drastically the ability of the body and
tissues
to uptake and use many other trace minerals in the diet, including the
Rare
Earth elements (so much touted by Dr. Joel Wallach of "Dead doctors
don't
lie!" fame) and the platinum group (aka trans-platinum group)
elements. Many of us who use indium feel that this may be
its single greatest effect, resulting in decreased sleep need, more
energy, greater clarity and reduced Parkinsonian symptoms.
There are also some really strange anecdotal stories floating around
about indium, attributing some near-miraculous healings of certain
conditions from taking just a few drops under the tongue once; you can
find these stories by doing a web search on indium as a nutritional
supplement, if you wish..... Several of us seem to have
noticed that indium, as a tract nutrient, may also be involved in some
strange way in increasing synchronicistic events in our lives.
For some odd reason, most people who take indium as a
supplement seem to notice a drastic increase in synchronicity in their
lives.
Notes on Iridium as a
Nutritional Supplement
From time to time, I run into people who feel that they have received
inner intuitive guidance to the effect that the element iridium would
be a helpful nutritional supplement. I too have had this same inner
sense more than once. Iridium (symbol Ir, element number 77 on the
Periodic Table) is, like indium, a metal, and one of the rarer elements
found in the earth's crust and our biosphere (our local environment:
the topmost part of the earth's crust, the oceans, and the lower
atmosphere and the life-forms within.) Until about the year 2005, I had
never encountered an iridium-only nutritional supplement. Since then,
any of several types of iridium-only supplements have appeared on the
market at times, usually marketed as "colloidal iridium" or "ormus
iridium", and I have occasionally played with using several of these
iridium products as a nutritional supplement. And, of course, some
natural-source clays and rock dusts used sometimes as mineral and trace
element supplements contain a small amount of iridium, along with many
other elements, as well. And several other types of nutritional
supplements which include a broad spectrum of nutrients also claim to
contain small amounts of iridium. Among the claimants are the several
brands of blue green algae nutritional supplement products from Klamath
Lake, and also many brands of "prehistoric colloidal minerals from
ancient lake-bed vegetation deposits." My own series of lab tests which
I commissioned have proven to me that some of these natural-source
broad spectrum colloidal mineral products and esoteric clay mineral
products from the Rockies and Western states do indeed contain small
amounts of iridium.
Some
Notes on So-Called Monatomic or Ormus or Super Deformed Nuclei
Minerals
or Elements
What follows is merely my own opinion.... I personally feel
that there has been a lot of hype, intermingled with some truth --
on the Web and elsewhere -- about the whole class of nutritional
mineral
supplements variously called by the following names:
- monatomic
minerals
- Ormus
minerals
- minerals
with deformed nuclei or super deformed nuclei
- manna
minerals
I
have done some
research in this field for the past 7 years, and I played with a few of
the ormus or monatomic nutritional supplement products a few years ago,
and even ended up de-bunking some of the hyped myths about one brand of
the stuff via the Web, and exposing some near-fraudulent claims, after
interviewing a PhD scientist (Dr. Richard Breitbarth at Biophase in
Northern
New Jersey) who had supposedly run the lab tests proving the presence
of
"monatomic minerals" in a "monatomic" product, wherein he admitted a
certain
amount of chicanery, falsification and exaggeration in his
results.
Strangely, one week after our last phone call, he was shot to death
mob-style
in his driveway in a fancy neighborhood (well, according to the Newark
Star
Ledger...) in New Jersey. According to the news articles at
the time,
he was widely viewed as an arrogant, ruthless and dishonest businessman
who had allegedly defrauded a number of past business partners,
colleagues
and customers, and there was supposedly a plethora of folks who would
have
wanted him dead. For some odd reason, although I had
approached him
"cold" by telephone as an interested researcher, he granted me two or
three
phone interviews, in the months prior to his death, which helped me
significantly
in my research work as I tried to learn how much of the "monatomic"
advertising
claims were bunk and what was perhaps true.
Bottom line: I do feel that the so-called deformed nuclei elements,
especially those of the noble metal group (gold, silver, etc.) and
trans-platinum
group, can have some great benefit when taken as a nutritional
supplement.
However, there still seems to be a lot of hype out there
which goes
WAY beyond my simple statement.... Further, many authors have
intermixed
their claims for physical effects of consuming these supplements with
claims
of all kinds of emotional, transpersonal and spiritual effects as well.
Some
of these assertions can be literally impossible to independently
validate,
and thus I simply caution you, as in all other areas of life, to review
the information available, but to make the final decision only with
input
from your heart and intuition. Lastly, I have been doing some
research
in using some beneficial syntropic antioxidative microbes (SAM), often
used to treat animal food, waste, and compost in
organic
farming, to convert minerals from various sources (molasses, rock dust,
etc.)
to monatomic (or ormus or super deformed nuclei) forms. If
you wish
to read more about the SAM organisms and their uses in organic and
sustainable
farming, and also the research in using them for human health and for
making
ormus minerals, please
check out my Syntropic Antioxidative Microbes (SAM) website.
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