Subscriber, how are you? - Feature Article:- What supplement is best for our health? Natural or synthetic - Health Queen Update: Why Tye & Dawn have been traveling across the country - Health Queen Recommends: Whole food nutrients A Note From the Queen Dear Subscriber So much has happened since last month. Tye and I have been to Florida and to L.A. What have we been up to? We have been learning a new program called, "Nutritional Response Testing." It's accurate and affordable. What is most exciting, is we will be working with clients by the first of the year. This will give you a chance to celebrate and then be ready to comply and get healthier. I would love to send you more information about this awesome clinical nutritional testing and nutritional support program that WORKs! just email me at healthqueen@fountainofhealth.com One of the most important ingredients in this nutritional program is whole food nutrients. They are needed in order for organs and glands to rebuild. We have learned about this extensively in the classes we have been taking over the last decade. I want to share this with you in this month's "Feature Article" On a personal note, everything is going well. Tye and I will be taking a communications class which we start this week, Not that were bad at communicating, we just want to get better. I will let you know how it goes. I got a new puppy. He is a black standard poodle named Dior. My Grandmother had a standard poodle when I was young and his name was Dior. I always wanted one. They are so smart and personable. My oldest son, Tyler, comes home next week from being in the Navy for 6 years. He was a nuclear engineer in a submarine. Being 6 feet 6 inches tall, he got his head bumped a lot. I can't believe it's been that long ago since he joined the service. Wow! I wish you all a warm and happy Thanksgiving with your friends and family. I have a secret recipe for the turkey if you want to try something new. Get a bucket or pot that the whole turkey will fit in so you can fully submerged the turkey in the salt water. With each gallon of water you're going to pore over the bird, add 1 cup kosher salt. Stir the salt around so the salt dissolves into the water. Let the bird soak fully submerged for at least 24 hours. (Don't use sea salt, it just settles at the bottom of the pot) The turkey will absorb about 2 quarts of water in the breast, making the breast oh, so moist and tender and the gravy tastes great too. We did this about 4 years ago and we have done it every year since then. Gobble, Gobble Classes As we start a new "Nutritional Response Testing" we will be doing educational classes once a week to educate our clients on many subjects. 2006 is going to be a healthy year. I will post the classes here. Be Watching! Feature Article Whole Food Nutrients Americans are now spending more than $17 billion a year on supplements for health and wellness. Strangely enough, the rates of some forms of chronic disease have not changed, while the rates of others have actually increased. There are a number of reasons for these poor statistics and many things remain a mystery. One thing seems fairly clear, however, most supplements aren't helping very much. I'm not saying there are no helpful supplements out there. There certainly are. What is becoming more apparent, however, is supplements will not help much if one does not first address the necessary basics of health and healing. Whole Food Nutrients Vs. Synthetic, Isolated Nutrients This fact has never really been argued. Everyone agrees raw honey is better for you than white sugar or that brown rice is better for you than white rice. Why should it be any different for vitamins? Just like refined foods, refined vitamins have been robbed of all of the extra accessory nutrients that they naturally come with as well. In turn, like refined foods, they can create numerous problems and imbalances in your body if taken at high levels for long periods of time. They can also act more like drugs in your body, forcing themselves down one pathway or another. At the very least, they won't help you as much as high quality food and food-based supplements. Synthetic or Isolated Nutritional Supplements Isolated nutrients or synthetic nutrients are not natural, in that they are never found by themselves in nature. Taking these isolated nutrients, especially at the ultra-high doses found in formulas today, is more like taking a drug. Studies show the body treats these isolated and synthetic nutrients like xenobiotics (foreign substances). Not only are isolated nutrients treated like drugs or other chemicals by your body, like drugs, they can create problems for you too. Nature does not produce any nutrient in an isolated form. The nutrients in foods are blended together in a specific way and work best in that format. For an isolated nutrient to work properly in the body, it needs all the other parts that are naturally present in the food. If the parts are not all there from the start, they are taken from the body's stored supply. This is why isolated nutrients often work for a little while, then seem to stop working. Once your body's store of the extra nutrients is used up, the isolated nutrient you're taking doesn't work as well anymore. Worse yet, a deficiency in these extra nutrients can be created in your body. Because most nutrients are isolated from the foods they come in, using a wide array of potentially nasty solvents and other chemicals, taking high amounts of these products can also expose you to these potentially toxic chemicals, if care is not taken to remove them. With the burden we are already facing from the high number of chemicals in our environment, why would anyone want to add more? Synergy and Potency The various parts of a natural vitamin complex work together in a synergistic manner. Synergy means that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Nutritionist Judith DeCava puts it best, "Separating the group of compounds (in a vitamin complex) converts it from a physiological, biochemical, active micronutrient into a disabled, debilitated chemical of little or no value to living cells. The synergy is gone." In other words, the automobile, in its original form, will drive better than a pile of its individual parts. Most people don't follow this logic when examining a nutritional supplement. Supplement makers typically try to stuff as much as possible in a capsule, telling us that the more we take, the better it is for us. This is simply not the case. As you now know, it is not necessarily the amount of a nutrient you ingest that is important, but its' form and how much is bioavailable that counts the most. In fact, remembering that ingesting single nutrients can actually create imbalances in the body, logic would dictate the higher the level of a single nutrient that you take in, the quicker this imbalance will occur. What does all of this mean to you? The potency of a supplement has much more to do with synergy than with actual nutrient levels. It is a combined effect of all the parts of the food, rather than the chemical effect of a single part, that is most important. Don't Forget the Basics I fear all of this talk of supplements -- food-based, isolated or synthetic -- has detracted from the most important part of health and healing. The basics of proper diet, exercise, detoxification, structure, mental/emotional and spiritual health must all be in order for true healing to occur. No supplement will work on its' own if these foundations are not in place. However, even when these foundations are in place, or if the situation is acute enough to necessitate a more immediate treatment response, supplement support may still be needed for a while. You may also want to take one or more food-based supplements to ensure you are getting an adequate array of nutrients in your diet. When these situations arise, I strongly recommend food-based supplements be your first choice. About The Queen Teacher-Speaker-Lifestyle Coach. The Health Queen, Dawn Throne, is the founder and owner of Fountain of Health Wellness Center and Day Spa. Her lifestyle coaching, classes, and articles have helped thousands live happier, healthier, and more fulfilling lives. The Queen loves to wade through the maze of health and wellness information and condense it for you in a simple, fun, and enjoyable format. She is passionate about your health and happiness! Learn more today at www.fountainofhealth.com or email us at healthqueen@fountainofhealth.com. (916) 456-4600 (916) 736-9845 fax 2820 "T" Street Sacramento, Ca 95816 The Health Queen and Girlfriends Recommend Whole Food Nutrients Whole food supplements are what their name suggests, supplements made from concentrated whole foods. The vitamins found within these supplements are not isolated. They are highly complex structures that combine a variety of enzymes, co-enzymes, antioxidants, trace elements, activators and many other unknown or undiscovered factors all working together synergistically, to enable this vitamin complex to do its' job in your body. Nutrients from within this complex cannot be taken apart or isolated from the whole, and then be expected to do the same job in the body as the whole complex is designed to do. The perfect example of this difference can be seen in an automobile. An automobile is a wonderfully designed complex machine that needs all of its' parts to be present and in place to function properly. Wheels are certainly an important part of the whole, but you could never isolate them from the rest of the car, call them a car or expect them to function like a car. They need the engine, body and everything else. The same analogy applies to the vitamin C (ascorbic acid) or vitamin E (delta tocopherol) you can find on most health food store shelves. They are parts of an entire complex that serve a purpose when part of the whole. However, they cannot do the job of the entire complex by themselves. With similar logic in place, one can analyze what a typical multivitamin truly is. The automobile equivalent of creating a multivitamin would be like shopping for a car in a junkyard. You would find all of the separate parts you would need to make up an entire automobile thrown together in a heap (or capsule in terms of the multivitamin) and expect that heap to drive like a car! Obviously, there is a difference. Science cannot create life. Only life can create life. 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