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What you doctor doesn’t know
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Optimum nutrition or deficiencies?
Is the difference measurable? |
Recommended Daily Allowance for vitamin
Nutrition’s in our food is like fuel for our body, an energy source. Our body needs a mixture of vitamins, minerals and other micronutrients to function well. From scientific studies we know that we need a minimum dose from a specific nutrient. Minimum means, just enough to function, stay well and don’t get sick. This value we call the Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA). In school terms you can give the Recommended Daily Allowance the figure ‘six’. It’s simply just enough but nothing to be proud of. It means there is no reserve at all and it would be wise to have a nutrient status way above that value, a ‘seven’ or ‘eight’. Only then you can say that your body is in a save zone.
Differences in the Recommended Daily Allowance
There are countries where these Recommended Daily Allowance values are on a higher level, simply because they think different about the word ‘recommended’. The goal must be to reach an optimum level in your nutritional status, again in school figures go for an ‘eight’, ‘nine’, or maybe a ‘ten’? The differences in the Recommended Daily Allowance can be as much as 400% from country to country. Where is the international standard, if one could exist at all.
Contradictive opinions in the media
It’s not common sense for people who are already confused about all the contradictive opinions in the media. On top of that, human beings with their individual biological needs have different eating habits depending on their cultural background. For example: Italians do eat more pasta an pizza, England is known for the fish and chips, Germany for the ‘bratwurst’, the Netherlands for potatoes with greasy jus and America for the hamburger. One thing they have in common. None of these countries basic food supplies meet the nutritional needs of the body. In what we eat or drink, we are ruled by our taste and not common sense!
Optimum health
In countries all over the world there are people who don’t care about what they eat and drink. Luckily there are also people who care and strive for optimum nutrition and with that optimum health. They invest in their health with buying biological grown vegetable’s avoiding processed foods, use nutritional supplements, leading an active life and avoiding stress and bad addictions like smoking. This group of people, who are aware that living well is their own responsibility, is growing by the day. They want to grow old, maintain a good look and vitality. The awareness that our 24 hour economy, the air and water pollution and the quality of our food chain, demands more than before of our nutritional status. Small details and giving up bad habits in our daily routine can make the difference in the end. Growing old without all the health problems you see all around.
Measuring is knowing
There are things we don’t want to happen. Don’t we all worry from time to time about our health? We all know what to do to achieve this goal, but, ……. “Do you really do the things you have to do?” Are you meeting the real ‘Recommended Daily Allowance’?
How do you know?
Today there is a method that gives you the answer. By looking at the history of your nutritional status, so you can predict what is most likely going to happen in the future. We can measure your nutritional history status from the past half-year and compare this with your personal 100% limit. If your nutritional needs meat your personal ‘save standard’, there’s little change YOU get sick.
On the German motorway (highway) you’ll only find petrol stations at a considerable distance. If your car is low on petrol and the sign reads; ‘next stop at 42 kilometres’, do you want to take the risk? The same goes for the SpectraCell vitamin analysis. You know exactly what to do and stay well and energetic.
- Pim Bruinzeel Physical therapist
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