LIQUID
VITAMINS: THE WAVE OF THE FUTURE
- by David
Friedman, DC, ND
The following
article excerpt is taken from Chiropractic Economics � The
world's most widely read chiropractic business magazine.
Liquid
Vitamins: The Wave of The Future is written by David Friedman,
DC, ND, a Life College graduate, a noted educator and lecturer
on nutrition. Friedman is a certified Doctor of Naturopathy and
a board qualified chiropractic neurologist. He has published
articles in various chiropractic journals and writes a monthly
nutritional newspaper column called "Health Talk." He
has appeared on numerous radio shows and his best selling tape
America's Unbalanced Diet has been heard by over one hundred
thousand nationwide.
My views on
nutrition changed one day a few years ago when a patient came in
and told me that she was having her septic tank repaired. She
told me what was causing the blockage -- hundreds of undigested
vitamin pills, some of them with the brand names still readable.
After hearing this disturbing news, I did some research of my
own. I found in Tacoma Washington, 250,000 pounds of
undigested vitamin and mineral pills are pulled out of the
sewers every six weeks. In Salt Lake City, over 150 gallons of
vitamin and mineral pills show up in their filters every month.
The reason is
due to high metallic content of these pills. Metallic minerals
like oyster shells, carbonates, oxides and dolomites have the
consistency of crushed up rocks, which our bodies were not
designed to digest. Even those pills listed as "all
natural" often have added fillers and coatings that inhibit
absorption.
The 1996
Physician's Desk Reference (page 1542) shows that vitamins and
minerals in a pill form are only 10 to 20% absorbed by the body.
That means for every $100 you are spending on nutrients, you
are literally flushing about $90 of it down the toilet.
Because of this lack of absorption, companies must use mega dose
of nutrients and this can cause a taxation on the kidneys.
According to the National Advisory Board, 100 mg consumed in a
tablet form translates to a minute stabilized 8.3mg
concentration in the blood.
Upon
realizing nutrients in pill form leave much to be desired, I
started to eliminate them from my inventory and started
exclusively selling a liquid nutrient. I admit figuring out just
which supplements to carry in your office can often be a task.
For example, if you recommend calcium to your patients they must
also take magnesium. Then for magnesium and calcium to properly
absorb they also need boron. In order for all of these to
properly assimilate, amino acids are required. Studies show
vitamin E is very helpful in preventing heart disease, but
current research shows to maintain normal blood concentrations
of vitamin E, your patients must take zinc. However, if they
take zinc, a proper balance of copper and vitamin C is
essential. After taking over 20 different nutrients myself and
recommending a giant handful per day to my patients, I knew
there had to be a better way. Nutritional drinks and oral
sprays offer a 98% absorption rate because they bypass the
digestive process and go directly into the blood stream and into
the cell within a matter of minutes. In fact, tests from
Massachusetts General Hospital have shown higher blood
concentrations of insulin by oral liquid application. Even
injections will take the insulin 30 minutes longer to reach the
same blood levels. Not only are liquid nutrients more
convenient, they also allow those with irritable bowel syndrome,
hiatus hernias and diverticulitis to take nutrients that may
have irritated them in a pill or capsule form.
I was
impressed with oral sprays, but I find them very hard to sell
with a price ranging from $19 to $36 for just one vitamin, and
each is sold separately. I researched virtually every liquid
nutrient on the market and only recommend liquid drinks that
derive their nutrients from organic sea vegetation. Sea
vegetables have tremendous nutritional value for human
consumption and are quickly finding their way into the market
place.
Our bodies
consist of approximately 70% water. Not ordinary water, but salt
water. The human body contains the same salts that exist in the
ocean in almost the exact proportions. Both the ocean water
and the water within us contains 80% sodium, 4% calcium, 4%
potassium and 12% sulfur. Unlike minerals from the ground,
nutrients from the sea are recognized by our cell receptors and
are allowed access into our cells. Sea vegetation offers
ionic minerals, which experts consider to be assimilated better
than any other form. Because sea vegetables are from the
ocean, they form a great matrix when suspended in a liquid
product and they don't settle to the bottom.
I have
sold many nutritional products in my office over the past nine
years. In one month, I heard more positive testimonies from
patients taking their nutrition from a liquid source than all
the nutrients I have ever sold combined! I can not keep the
product stocked and often have people sitting in my waiting room
for UPS to deliver more bottles. I never saw this type of
response when I sold tablets, capsules or pills. I feel liquid
nutrients are like a computer and pills are like a typewriter.
Once someone types a letter on a computer and sees how superior
it is, they never want to touch a typewriter again.
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