If you are diagnosed with a disease like cancer, diabetes, heart disease, or autoimmune disease, then you should use supplementation and food with a purpose.
I have been talking about the nutrition one needs to stay healthy and age without inflammation and disease for the last 3 Health casts. It is true that whatever you put in your body is either fuel (Carbohydrates) or building blocks (Protein/Fat) for all the tissues in the human body, or toxins such as alcohol, nicotine, other toxins and heavy metals or microplastics.
Of course, you already know that we need Energy(fuel) and the Building Blocks for body tissues, in our diets, but you also need Vitamins, Minerals, and Trace Elements which are called Micronutrients. These nutrients are Integral to Your Health. Your body CAN’T make micronutrients. They must come from your diet or be taken as supplements if you want to achieve health, and fight disease.
If you are diagnosed with a disease like cancer, diabetes, heart disease, or autoimmune disease, then you should use supplementation and food with a purpose. You need specific micronutrients to just stay alive, but more of certain supplements can fight or prevent certain diseases.
Take supplements daily, and routinely and only take supplements containing micronutrients that you know can help your health and help you live longer.
Don’t do this:
I have patients who think they are healthy, but who put their supplements in a cabinet and daily pick randomly which supplements to take. They buy MANY (> 12) supplements and sometimes take multiple supplements that do the same thing. This can lead to excessive levels of a micronutrient. Worse yet they don’t know why they are taking the supplements that are either recommended or self-purchased on the internet. In our practice at BioBalance Health® we give every one of our patients a list of their supplements that tells them why they are taking them. For those patients who ignore our advice on the supplements they need, I say you should not expect the best results when it comes to aging and being healthy if you don’t follow our recommendations. Many supplements we use instead of a prescription. Forgetting is not an excuse. Put them in a pill organizer and that way you can’t forget!
Be smart and take supplements that are recommended to you EVERY DAY to treat or prevent the disease or condition that you have! If we recommend a specific brand of supplement, do not substitute!!!! Many cheap versions of supplements on the internet have nothing in them or worse yet contain harmful chemicals.
At Biobalance Health® we recommend the most effective Medical Grade supplements, so you actually get what you buy!
Now you know that you need Micronutrients, what do they provide for you?
- Micronutrients support energy production: Without them you can’t efficiently produce energy in your cells.
- Build and maintain Healthy Bones: Vitamin D, Vitamin K, Vitamin C, Magnesium, Calcium, and Phosphorous are essential for maintaining bone strength and density. Of course, the hormones are necessary
- They Strengthen the Immune system to prevent and assist in treatment of Cancer and Immune disorders. Vitamin A, C, D and minerals like zinc and selenium have a role in treating and preventing cancer, and treating immune deficiency, autoimmune diseases. They work in concert with the hormone Testosterone to improve the immune system.
- Micronutrients support the growth and development of enzymes, and hormones needed for normal growth and renewal of every tissue in the body.
- Maintain Fluid and Electrolytes: Micronutrients such as sodium, chloride, potassium, regulate fluid balance, and Magnesium and Calcium make nerve impulses, and muscle contractions.
- Blood Formation and Clotting: Iron is necessary for making red blood cells. Vitamin K is required for blood clotting.
- Protect the cells from damage and help repair damaged cells:
Antioxidants Vitamin C, A, E and D help protect the cells from aging and DNA damage.
What are the symptoms people get when they don’t get enough micronutrients in the diet or supplements?
- Cognitive Dysfunction—loss of memory, Dementia, Alzheimer’s Disease
- Fatigue
- Osteoporosis (see above)
- Sarcopenia (muscle wasting)
- Cancer
- Neurologic disease- Lack of B12, D, Selenium, Zinc
- Autoimmune and Immune diseases
- Heart Disease
- Gut dysfunction
Here are some vitamins and micronutrients necessary for everyone to stay healthy:
Vitamin D (5,000 miu per day)– cancer, heart disease, cognitive dysfunction (Dementia)
Vitamin K supports bone growth, blood clotting, skin collagen thickness
Vitamin E supports the breast, skin, prevents cancer and supports brain health.
Vitamin C is necessary for immune function, strong bones, supports skin and hair collagen
Vitamin B12 (methyl B12) – cognitive dysfunction, multiple sclerosis, and chromosome breaks (Cancer), neurologic diseases, peripheral neuropathy from alcoholism.
Folate (menthol folate) – repair chromosome breaks and treats and prevents several cancers, dementia, prevents peripheral neuropathy of all kinds.
Thiamine – brain dysfunction and diabetes
Ames B. N. (2006). Low micronutrient intake may accelerate the degenerative diseases of aging.
Biotin- Promotes hair growth and skin tone
Iodine-Protects the thyroid gland, stimulates the production of thyroid hormone, protects the breast from breast cancer.
Magnesium Glycinate and Threonate– prevents cancer, hypertension, osteoporosis, sarcopenia (muscle loss) diabetes, Prediabetes and the metabolic syndrome. Treats hypertension and gut disease such as constipation.
Calcium in your food, not a pill – prevents chromosome breaks which cause cancer and diabetes. It also treats osteoporosis and supplies the muscles for strength.
Selenium – prevents cancer
Zinc 50 mg/day for prostate cancer
Iron – anemia, immune dysfunction, poor cognitive development, dementia
Omega-3 fatty acids – prevents heart disease, melanoma, other cancers, cognitive dysfunction
Probiotics/Sporebiotics are not actually a micronutrient, yet they supply the gut with the bacteria that support our immune system and produce the neurotransmitters that are needed to prevent depression, ADD, and other neurologic and psychiatric diseases.
If you want to know more about micronutrients you can become a BioBalance Health® patient or subscribe to Life Extension Magazine or go to Life extension.com.
This Health cast was written and presented by Dr. Kathy Maupin, M.D., Bio-identical Hormone Replacement Expert and Author. www.BioBalanceHealth.com • (314) 993-0963. Please subscribe to our YouTube channel and please check “ Like “. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram at BioBalanceHealth.
