by: David Friedman

Liquid vitamins: The wave of the future

Source: Google groups

Note: 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."

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 of 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 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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  by:  Sheri L. Johnson, “sea-health” (sheri@hisword.com)

SeaSilver Independent Business Associate
Subject: Liquid Nutritional Supplements offer 98% absorption at the cellular level

Newsgroups: alt.health

Date: 2003-06-06 10:48:53 PST
Original post: Google Groups

Are you shocked to learn that you only absorb about 10% of the vitamins and minerals you take in pill form? The Physicians Desk Reference (page 1542) states this as a fact. Even pills listed as "all natural" often have added fillers and coatings that inhibit absorption. What this means is that 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, vitamin companies are creating mega doses of nutrients and this can cause taxation on the kidneys. I overheard Dr. David Friedman telling a story about one of his chiropractic patients who was late for her appointment because she was having her septic tank repaired. She told him the blockage was caused by hundreds of undigested vitamin pills, some of them with the brand names still readable on them. After he heard this he did some further research and discovered that all across our country cities are pulling thousands of undigested vitamin pills from their sewers. In Salt Lake City, over 150 gallons of vitamin and mineral pills show up in their filters every month. The reason is due to the 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 are not designed to digest.

The solution to this problem is to use a liquid nutrient that would replace the multiple pills that most people take on a daily basis. A nutrient in liquid form offers a 98% absorption rate because it bypasses the digestive process and goes directly into the bloodstream, reaching the cells within a matter of minutes. In fact, tests from Massachusetts General Hospital have shown higher blood concentrations of insulin by oral liquid application. Injections will take the insulin 30 minutes longer to reach the same blood levels. Not only is a liquid nutrient more convenient, but it also allows those with stomach and digestive problems to take nutrients that would have irritated them in a pill form. The news about the low absorption rate of pills is spreading fast and even the best selling vitamin distributor Centrum has released a multivitamin in liquid form. Nutrients in a liquid form will, within the next five years, revolutionize the entire nutritional market.

By: Arthritis & Glucosamine Resource Center
contact: info@arthritis-glucosamine.net
Source: http://www.arthritis-glucosamine.net/glucosamine/glucosamine-buy.html

Source: http://www.arthritis-glucosamine.net/glucosamine/science/glucosamine-studies.html

Glucosamine Studies and Research

Glucosamine works to stimulate joint function and repair. It is most effective in battling osteoarthritis, the most prevalent type of arthritis. A number of studies over the last 20 years have shown this. For example, a 1982 clinical study compared usage of the NSAID ibuprofen with glucosamine sulfate, for osteoarthritis of the knee. During the first two weeks, ibuprofen decreased pain faster, but by the fourth week the glucosamine group was well ahead in pain relief. The overall results showed 44% of the glucosamine group had pain relief compared to 15% for ibuprofen. Because glucosamine is not an anti-inflammatory drug, it takes longer to start working, but it works equally well.

Another 1982 open trial study with 252 doctors and 1,506 patients conducted in Portugal provided good clinical information on appropriate dosage and usage of glucosamine sulfate for osteoarthritis. For 50 days, patients took 500 mg of glucosamine sulfate three times a day. The results showed 95% of the patients benefited from the supplement, as it reduced their pain whether they were resting, standing, or exercising. This study also showed the effects of glucosamine on obese patients, however, they may require higher dosages to offset the joints' reaction to the stress from obesity. Those patients also taking diuretics or suffering from peptic ulcers were also studied regarding the effect of, and their tolerance to, glucosamine. The former might require higher dosages and the latter need to take glucosamine with food.

In a more recent 2000 study at the Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, in Ziffrin, 57 patients with osteoarthritis in the knee were treated randomly for four weeks with glucosamine sulfate intravenously combined with an 800 mg of chondroitin sulfate daily, or with a placebo. As in the 1982 study, a record was kept of their knee pain when at rest, standing, or moving. No reduction of symptoms occurred with the placebo group, but the glucosamine/chondroitin sulfate group showed much reduction of symptoms in all activity/nonactivity functions. This latter group also showed no negative reactions or any change in their blood tests. The study concluded that glucosamine sulfate is safe for long-term osteoarthritis treatment.

Another osteoarthritis study of the knee, in 1999 at the University of Liege in Belgium, involved 212 patients worldwide. These patients were randomly given either glucosamine or a placebo for three years. The patients' pain was measured every four months and x-rays were taken of their knees. The placebo group had more pain and narrowed joints, while the glucosamine group had no narrowing of joints and their condition improved. This was one of the first studies to show how glucosamine works by stopping the joints from narrowing. It was also the first long-term study conducted.

Since then, the University of Utah received a $6.6 million grant (September 1999) from the National Institutes of Health for another major ongoing glucosamine study.

Harvard Medical School conducted a somewhat unorthodox study where patients scheduled for hip surgery were given ground chicken bone supplements. After two weeks of taking these supplements, their pain was reduced considerably.