We here at My Healthiest Life have known for several years now, that whole food based supplements are more readily absorbed than traditional synthetic supplements. We've researched hundreds of articles and data and concluded that whole food based supplements are definitely the next generation of supplementation. After doing all of this research, we've also concluded that less is more when it comes to taking supplements. The healthier your digestive tract is, the better you absorb your nutrients from your food and the less of a need there is to take supplements in the first place. When your digestive tract is healthy, your immune system is healthy as well. If you are currently taking supplements and don't realize that up to 80% of the supplement companies raw materials are not only outsourced to China but are not tested with any frequency to make sure they are what they are supposed to be without any other added ingredients. Who would have thought that taking an innocent Vitamin C tablet could actually be something else entirely! Pretty scary right? If this is news to you then you should absolutely read this article written by Dr. David Allen and Dr. Joe Ferrara. This is probably the best article we've ever read in explaining why whole food based supplementation is far superior to synthetic supplementation. Beware that supplement companies are just as guilty of over stating and exaggerating claims on the benefits of taking certain supplements as any other company wanting to profit from peoples health issues or lack of knowledge. This is one area where you should absolutely take the time to educate yourself.
Synbiotic Nutrition™: A Smart Choice.
By Dr. David Allen and Dr. Joe Ferrara
Optimal health can only be achieved if we work with the innate intelligence of the human body. When we attempt to outsmart Nature and substitute man-made substances for the nutrition found in whole foods, we need to recognize that this works against the body's natural healing processes. Only by better understanding Nature and working with the body's ability to heal itself, can you effectively nourish, cleanse and hydrate your body.
Whole food is the source of nutrition for the human body, not isolated, man-made or synthetic supplements. To be effective, nutrients must be as close as possible to their natural living raw food state. This fact is supported by a long list of scientific research, including the first scientist to isolate a vitamin in food, Dr. Albert Szent-Georgi.
Although Dr. Szent-Georgi was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1937 for his research, he considered it a failure because his "purest" form of Vitamin C (isolated ascorbic acid) could not cure scurvy, while whole food Vitamin C found in limes did. After decades of research, he concluded that cell utilization requires all of nature's co-factors and recommended whole food sources as the only source of nutrition.
The superiority of whole foods was scientifically validated in 1999, when Dr. Gunter Blobel was awarded a Nobel Prize for discovering how nutrients are delivered to the specific cells that need them. Dr. Blobel isolated all the major co-factors found in whole foods (enzymes, lipids, proteins, etc.) and discovered that it was the peptides (2 or more amino acids bonded together) that were the key to cellular nutrition.
Every nutrient has its own unique peptide attached to it in whole food. For example, the peptide attached to calcium is different than the peptide attached to magnesium. When a cell in your body needs calcium, it sends out an electromagnetic frequency (like a radio wave signal) that searches for and finds the specific peptide attached to calcium. This peptide is called a "protein chaperone", which picks up the signal and carries the calcium to the cell that needs it.
The Danger of Synthetic Supplements
Man-made, synthetic supplements have no peptide carriers, nor do they contain any of the vital "living" energy found in whole food. Because they are man-made, they contain positive ionic charges that do not match the body's battery-like (positive-negative) polarity. Without living energy, protein carriers and natural polarity, synthetic nutrients are not only a poor source of nutrition, they are very difficult to detoxify. In other words, synthetic supplements add to your body's toxic load.
For humans to achieve sustainable wellness and maintain optimal health, a diet rich in whole foods is a daily necessity. However, after years of accumulated toxicity, the body's digestive system becomes too dysfunctional to get sufficient nutrition from food alone. Even whole food supplements become difficult to digest because of the accumulated toxins. So how do we nourish the body when we can't digest food or even supplements? This is a profound problem that confronts anyone seeking to improve or optimize their own health.
The Synbiotic Nutrition Breakthrough
Synbiotic nutrition is a new and extremely effective way to improve your health. The emphasis is on restoring your body's innate power to do what it was designed to do. Instead of taking enzyme supplements, why not restore your body's ability to produce its own enzymes? Instead of hormone supplements, why not restore your body's ability to make its own hormones. Instead of taking vitamin supplements to replace what is "missing", why not restore your body's ability to produce its own nutrients?
Synbiotic food-grown products start with highest quality, freshly harvested raw living food ingredients, sourced from all over the world. These ingredients are concentrated in ratios up to 200:1; using the latest supercritical CO2 extraction processes while maintaining 100% of all the food-form factors (enzymes, peptides, life energy, etc.).
These super-dense raw foods are then put through proprietary fermentation processes that mimic the body's own digestive system. This process creates tiny nano-scale nutrients that weigh less about 350 Daltons, compared to whole food nutrients, which weight about 20,000 Daltons. This is critically important, because it allows these powerhouse nutrients to bypass the body's digestive processes for instant cellular uptake and utilization.
Nourishing Your Body's Vitamin Factory
When your digestive system is healthy, you have plenty of enzymes, bile and good bacteria that work together to create thousands of nutrient compounds in a tightly controlled fermentation process. These include B vitamins, serotonin, amino acids, hormonal precursors and many other vital substances that science will never be able to catalog, yet are essential to your body's health.
The primary factor that determines the health of your body's vitamin factory is the health of your commensal cells. What are commensal cells? They are all the good bacteria in your body and are far more important than you realize. First, 90% of the cells in your body are commensal cells and only 10% are human cells. They are also 5 times more intelligent than human cells, with over 350,000 genes compared to 65,000 in human cells.
The gastrointestinal tract is a complex ecosystem of more than 500 different types of commensal cell micro-flora that produce natural super-medicines. When we nourish these super intelligent cells with Synbiotic Nutrition your body produces its own nutrients that are far more effective than any other form of nutrition.
By strengthening the body's ability to make its own nutrients, we are working in harmony with Nature's ancient wisdom and the body's innate healing power. Synbiotic nutrients make it possible to nourish and cleanse your body at unprecedented speeds, which is vital to improving and restoring your health.
A Strategic Alliance for Nutrition and Education
The Green PolkaDot Box has formed a strategic alliance with Synbiotic Nutrition LLC, as the provider of Synbiotic food-grown products and as an ongoing contributor of educational content to the website. We will be introducing this highly effective new category of Synbiotic-Foodgrown™ concentrates that are easy to use and unique in their ability to produce fast, permanent and life-changing results.
These proprietary products are the culmination of 35 years of clinical experience, research and product development that combine the most effective applications of energy medicine, biophysics and advanced nutrition. Recently, this research has culminated in a series of product development breakthroughs that are producing unprecedented clinical results by addressing the core underlying causes of chronic health problems.
Using proprietary manufacturing processes, Synbiotic Nutrition creates products that are designed to restore the body's ability to heal itself, tame the ravages of everyday stress and keep the body clean in a toxic, polluted world. These potent living raw food concentrates are sourced directly from nature and use nature's timeless wisdom and probiotic counterparts to nourish the body 300 times faster than eating whole foods or taking ordinary supplements.
The Green PolkaDox Box will offer a specific selection of these clinically proven products to our Members.
Quotes from a few leading researchers and scientists on the subject of whole foods.
"In this age of diet fads and fast foods, the best eating foods, the best eating plan may be the oldest. In Biblical times, people lived on whole grains, fruits, nuts, greens, legumes, and olive oil, only consuming small amounts of animal protein. Their diet was filled with fiber, lean protein, antioxidants, phytochemicals, and fermented synbiotic nutrients; and was low in fat, sodium, and cholesterol."-Dr. Paul Yanick, PhD, ND, CNC, CQM
"After a long career in research and policy-making, I have decided to step ‘out of the system.' I have decided to disclose why Americans are so confused…As a taxpayer who foots the bill for research and health policy in America, you deserve to know that many of the common notions you have been told about food, health and disease are wrong…. I propose to do nothing less than redefine what we think of as good nutrition. You need to know the truth about food, and why eating the right way can save your life."- Dr. T. Colin Campbell, PhD, Author of The China Study
"…fruits and vegetable phytochemical extracts exhibit strong antioxidant and antiproliferative activities …from the combination of phytochemicals…the additive and synergistic effects of a "complex mixture" of phytochemicals…are responsible for these benefits…no single antioxidant can replace the combination of natural phytochemicals…." - Liu RH. Potential synergy of phytochemicals in cancer prevention: mechanism of action. Department of Food Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, J Nutr. 2004 Dec;134(12):3479S-3485S
"…the effort to understand the health benefits of plant foods… is the characterization of their physiologically active constituents, the phytochemicals…As our knowledge grows…we will learn how best to create new products through altering their concentrations, combinations and/or their bioavailability." – Functional
Foods for Health Program, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL and * Mayer, J. USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University, Boston, MA.
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As many of us know, sticking to a Gluten-Free diet is not that easy at times. Especially when it comes to eating something even remotely resembling a decadent desert. I am often the one passing on the deserts, not necessarily because I don't eat wheat, but because I don't eat sugar as well. But who doesn't want to taste a brownie, cookie or piece of cake from time to time knowing that they are cheating just a little, without worrying about straying too far. Long on a quest to find gluten-free deserts that are also free from processed sugars, cane or otherwise, I was thrilled to happen upon Pamela's Products in our local Whole Foods. These are truly the best tasting cookies you've ever tried, and you would never, ever, know that they are made with rice flour instead of wheat. Most of the cookies are made with over 70% ingredients and a few of the different flavors are sweetened with fruit juice only.
Check out the ingredients on the Butter shortbread Cookies!: INGREDIENTS: Flour Base (Brown Rice Flour, White Rice Flour, Tapioca Starch, Sweet Rice Flour, Xanthan Gum); Butter (salted); Fruit Juice Concentrate (Pineapple, Peach, Pear); Natural Almond Meal (may appear as brown flecks); Gluten-free Natural Flavor; Grainless & Aluminum Free Baking Powder (Sodium Bicarbonate, Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, Potato Starch); Baking Soda; Xanthan Gum.
