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As many nutritionist experts there are; and as many authors on the subject of nutrition each has their own individual experience of food and eating. Many individuals eat food that has been traditionally eaten by their family / tribe / nation / community and religious traditions over thousands of years. It would be naïve for each of the above categories to claim their eating habits and foods are nutritionally perfectly balanced. What people should eat and not eat is far more complexed than what the average person understands.
What all nutritional experts agree on is that nutrition is vital to a healthy body and a strong immune system, that protects us from illness and disease.
Sorghum on its own offers a balanced daily nutritional intake, fortified with micro algae its becomes a perfectly balance whole food source for the whole family. Throughout the human body we have catalysts acting as a host of chemical reactions within each living cell.
The majority been proteins in the role of enzymes; of which some require additional cofactors to complete their function, some of these cofactors are minerals, namely magnesium, calcium and copper. In a diet there are organic cofactors that must be consumed, as the body in general is unable to synthesize them for itself.
Vitamins are essential and in their absence specific functions of the body fail and may cease; ultimately deficiency of a vitamin can be fatal. Vitamins are needed by the body in small amounts, in some cases excessive amounts of a vitamin are harmful. The body has vary capacity to store the vitamins, thus for some a regular intake is needed.
The human body contains about twenty-two known minerals, of which the majority is believed to be essential to life. Minerals occur in nature in water, the soil and in rocks and are taken up by roots of the plants and therefore find their way into animals and humans. Minerals exist in the body in one of two forms: Whichever of these forms occur, the minerals retain their chemical identity. As biological components; in the skeleton in haemoglobin, in thyroid hormones and many enzymes in their ionized state; in the body fluids, and serve to maintain homeostasis
Essential amino acids are required for optimal growth, Stimulator of mental and brain function, Increase muscular energy levels, Improves intestinal and digestive competence, Anti-stress components, Stimulates mental ability & muscular coordination. Non-essential amino acids are one of the principal fuels for brain cells, Strengthens cellular walls, slows the aging Detoxify the blood system, Promotes energy and oxygen use in the cells, Important in males sexual health as seminal fluid is 80% Arginine
Keep in mind that there is a distinct difference between processed / synthetic Nutrients than to Nutrients produced by nature in animals, vegetation and bacterium (Micro-algae) By now, you are either taking vitamins for yourself already or have decided that the benefits of taking your vitamins daily is the key to a healthy, and more vibrant you.
But questions still remain;
1.What kind of vitamins do I take?
2.What dosages?
3.How many?
4.Why should I have to pay for dozens of individual vitamins instead of just taking a single multivitamin?
Fortunately, researches searched long and hard and come up with a solution, the Geva F Series
Can you imagine swallowing as many as 10 or 12 pills a day, just to get your vitamins?
As you read on, you are about to be let in on the dirty little secret that pills have that almost nobody will tell you. You can only put a very small amount of ingredients into a pill.
Why? -Think of a pill as if it was a nearly full suitcase.
The pill is the suitcase and the inside is full of clothes and everything else you need for your trip. The only space left is for the things you buy when you get where you are going. This is the space available to put actual active ingredients (such as vitamins) inside the pill. Everything else is needed to keep the pill stable (or to get you where you are going)
Because of this, as much as 80% of a pill can be fillers, binders, chelating agents and film coatings. In order to get the amount of vitamins that you can get with any of the Geva F Series, you would need to take at least 20 pills a day. Why swallow 20 or more pills a day when you can take as little as a few grams of a high potency micro algae and get more vitamins, minerals, fruit, vegetable and plant extracts than you could get by taking dozens of pills? It just doesn’t make sense, but day after day people take a basic “once a day” multivitamin and believe they are getting everything they need. I hate to break it to you, but you aren't.
Not only do people not get the vitamins they really need, they fail to absorb the vitamins they take due to the vitamin being sold in a solid, pill form and then they get stuck with paying the full retail price for all of these vitamins because they buy it in a retail store that has to pay for overhead, employees, a physical store and more.
Why not get all of your vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, whole food extracts and more, together in one great tasting and inexpensive product, the Geva F Series. For some time now there has been a sort of gross reductionism going on in the field of health and nutrition. Part of it is due to the type of research being done, and the way that it is interpreted to serve the corporations sponsoring it. Specific nutrients that are shown to be beneficial in clinical studies are isolated, often in synthetic form, and heralded as new weapon against cancer, heart disease, old age, etc.
There are some rather disturbing marketing trends going on right now that are geared at women, children and immune compromised individuals. Television and print advertisements show smiling, athletes racing from one place to the next and a happy family having breakfast while eating an instant cereal on an "immune booster" cereal pack that has been "fortified with a bunch of synthetic vitamins and minerals as well as a whole host of other artificial additives and preservatives.
Children have 'fortified juices, cereals, cereal bars, and even fluoridated 'nursery water'. What these ad campaigns don't show is no matter how fancy these products are dressed up and displayed, they are still dead, processed foods that may contain harmful ingredients like hydrogenated oils, preservatives, and neurotoxins. Even in the field of "alternative health" we find this same sort of reductionism going on. Herbal compounds are isolated, extracted and ingested in inappropriate quantities, without the synergy that the whole plant provides.
We've all heard the alarming research showing that a specific herb has been found to be toxic - comfrey, ephedrine, kava, etc. Yet somehow Native peoples managed to use these herbs very successfully for many generations. Many of us still do. There is something to be said for using plants and foods in their whole forms and for cultivating a relationship with the different energies offered by the plants around us. It's very hard to improve on a diet of wild foods and herbs. Well-nourished bodies and minds enjoy balanced hormones and hearty immune systems.
Many of us commonly turn to natural products in times of imbalance - but the use of algae can also be a wonderful preventative ally. It would be a great day when food labels must show the isolated synthetic ingredients provided in the de-natured, processed products for a diet that makes many health related claims as an immune booster and as foods that are nourishing and healthy.
Unlike synthetic nutrients, the Geva F Series provide essential nutrients in a highly assailable form.
Breakdown of Nutrients
Please note this is a breakdown of nutrients found in animals and vegetation.
Vitamins
Vitamins are broken down into two groups Fat soluble and water soluble
Amino Acids
Amino acids are broken down into two groups, essential and non-essential, with a third group as the branched chain amino acids
Minerals are broken up into two groups, minerals and trace elements
VITAMINS:
All natural vitamins are organic food substances found only in living things, that is, plants and animals. With few exceptions the body cannot manufacture or synthesize vitamins. They must be supplied in the diet or in dietary supplements. Vitamins are essential to the normal functioning of our bodies. They are necessary for our growth, vitality, and general well-being.
HOW VITAMINS WORK:
A lot of people think vitamins can replace food. They cannot. In fact, vitamins cannot be assimilated without ingesting food. That is why we suggest taking them with a meal. Vitamins help regulate metabolism, help convert fat and carbohydrates into energy, and assist in forming bone and tissue.
Amino Acids
Of the 20 standard protein-ogenic amino acids eight are called essential amino acids because the human body cannot synthesize them from other compounds through chemical reactions, and they therefore must be obtained from food. Histidine andAginine are generally only considered essential in children, because the metabolic pathways that synthesize these amino acids are not fully developed in children.
AMINO ACIDS are the "building Blocks" of the body. Besides building cells and repairing tissue, they form antibodies to combat invading bacteria & viruses; they are part of the enzyme & hormonal system; they build nucleoproteins (RNA & DNA); they carry oxygen throughout the body and participate in muscle activity.
When protein is broken down by digestion the result is 20 known amino acids. Eight are essential (cannot be manufactured by the body) the rest are non-essential (can be manufactured by the body with proper nutrition
Recommended Dietary Allowances
Nutrient intake recommendations from the Institute of Medicine, an arm of the American Academy of Sciences RDAs are safe levels of intake for essential nutrients, based on current scientific knowledge. They are set to meet the known nutrient needs or practically all healthy people. RDAs have been around and updated regularly for more than 50 years. RDAs are gradually being replaced by revised guidelines called Dietary Reference Intakes or DRIs
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