Food Enrichment…WHAT are they USING?

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I would prefer that my foods not be “enriched” in any way at all. 

I would prefer instead to pick and choose the supplements of my choice, based on which versions of the supplements work best for me and what my body needs most.

Some foods are adding in the B12 more, giving 50% of the Daily Value in each serving.

Granted, the Daily Value on this water-soluble vitamin is considered by many to be exceedingly low, not dissimilar from the Vitamin C requirements many people seem to need that far exceed the suggested DV.

But we know these numbers are assigned as bare-bones survival percentages for the most part regardless.

In the latest FLFL video, this topic is covered as it especially pertains to calcium, magnesium and vitamin D.

The companies try to give a balanced ratio of the three, knowing how closely they work together in the body.

But they also often use inferior forms of the vitamin…such as D2 instead of D3…making us question how much value is there really, in this kind of enrichment?

One of the biggest concerns is the form of B12 being used; the labeling does not specify whether it is the methyl, or the cyano version.  Many people feel strongly that the methyl version is the only safe and healthy version that should be used.  Transparency and disclosure are necessary and should be required on these kinds of labels.

The Issue of IV Antibiotics:

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I have a firm stance on this issue.

It’s brought up due to being in a public place and overhearing two middle aged females discussing the fact that they were putting a senior citizen that they were caring for on a three-time-a-day antibiotic Intra venous program, for some reason that I could not discern.

I absolutely cringe when I hear about these kinds of measures.  

I of course don’t know exactly what the IV antibiotics were being used for, and perhaps the woman was on her death bed.  But I don’t think that she was.

What we can be quite certain of, is that with the modern-day use of antibiotics in general, a pro-biotic protocol is almost never suggested as a compliment and counter-effect to the internal gut flora destruction that will happen with any high-dose antibiotic treatment like this, and as such, we can count on a continued…and aggressive…deterioration of this woman’s immune system, the very thing she likely needs the most, especially at her advanced age, in order to fight off what ever else may come her way.

Again: I was under the impression that this treatment was something they were simply “doing” to deal with an infection, being two women that both seemed to hold jobs in a conventional medicine establishment.  

If the older woman was indeed dying, the IV stream as a last resort may be called for.

However…if she was not dying…as much as I hate to say this…she likely will be dieing sooner than she cares to with the level of immune system disruption such a drastic measure as using antibiotics via IV will cause her.

Why not try high-dose sodium ascorbate (vitamin C) via IV instead?

EDTA: Effective, But Be Careful

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EDTA has been used for a long time to help remove heavy metals from the body.  It does not have a high affinity for mercury, so it has not been terribly useful for that purpose, but has been used to help de-calcify the body when over-calcification, a condition that has been running somewhat rampant over the past couple decades, is an issue.

Some schools of thought that suggest we need more calcium in the diet to help with bone issues are receiving a lot of debate because of the imbalance of magnesium to calcium in the body, and the discoveries regarding how a calcium supplement, in any of it’s many forms, it supposed to be most effectively processed and used in the body in order for supplementation to be useful.

In this process, a wide-scale effort was made in the food industry to “enrich” a great many of our foods with additional calcium…more it seems as marketing point, to get on the “calcium supplementation bandwagon,” as compared to suggesting it come from other parts of the diet instead (such as whole food greens).

Even some companies in the pharmaceutical industry latched on to this concept and came up with calcium supplements to help with bone loss issues, especially in women, but for which the research seems to show the uptake and use of these calcium supplements to benefit the bone are negligible to possibly almost useless…the latest alternative thought even indicating that it is *harmful* more than anything else.

So in comes EDTA.

EDTA is a chelating agent that can remove excess calcium very readily and effectively.  So much so, that the mineral balance in the body needs to be paid close attention to when using this agent, to make sure magnesium and calcium levels are maintained in a healthy ratio to each other.

Men with prostate calcification can use the rectal suppositories, getting the EDTA agent physically right next to the calcified organ to help the EDTA permeate the back of the gland and “wash” the calcium build-up to help provide some relief to the sufferer.

Often times people with meshes inserted for surgical reasons find that if further surgery is needed at some point down the line, that the mesh previously put into place has a hard calcium coating covering the mesh once the surgical area has been opened back up.

There is one big drawback to using EDTA…the “redepositing” issue that it can cause.

When EDTA loosens the excess calcium, or even mobilizes lead, which it is also used for very often (children who suffer from lead poisoning) the risk becomes that the heavy metal can “redeposit” itself into other areas of the body…such as the brain.

It is this writer’s opinion, that although EDTA can be a great agent to assist with heavy metal removal, if coupled with a quality zeolite…a volcanic ash with a cage-like-trapping molecular structure that irreversible binds these metals (and it fortunately just happens to have an affinity for the worst of the worst heavy metals like mercury, lead and cadmium)…we have a great one-two pairing punch that will provide multiple benefits, at the highest level of safety we can manage.  Our understanding of zeolite is such that it does nothing in the body…except to pass through, grab and trap the heavy metals…and continue to pass through via the urine.

Ideal.