An Orange A Day?

I have an important new way of thinking about nutrients that I want to tell you about. If you’re a member of my Confidential Cures newsletter you already know a bit about my Nutrition Pyramid. Today for you in Doctor’s House Call I want to tell you why this is important in the way you think about food, supplements and nutrients. There are four simple levels. At the base is Primal Nutrition. Just above that is ortho-nutrition. Then you have ultra-nutrition. And at the top is telo-nutrition. Primal nutrition means getting the basic amounts of protein, vitamins, minerals and antioxidants our paleo ancestors got from their environment. Ortho-nutrition means correcting for the nutrient deficiencies caused by the abuses and toxins we’re suffering from in today’s world. Ultra-nutrition is where you try to do better than just what nature intended and get performance gains over what’s “normal.” Telo-nutrition is using nutrients to affect the length of the telomere to prevent disease and preserve youth. One of the reasons I think there’s a need for my Nutrition Pyramid is that other people who tout vitamins and supplements are stuck in ultra-nutrition. It’s caused them to hype up the benefits of vitamins. And it’s probably why standard medicine is not accepting of the value of nutrients. I think of nutrients differently. We are living in an abnormal environment, and we haven’t had our evolutionary needs met during the change from paleo to modern times. But that’...
Source: Al Sears, MD Natural Remedies - Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Tags: Nutrition nutrients omega-3s vitamins Source Type: news