Holistic Therapy #3: SUPPLEMENTATION – WHOLE food Supplements

Supplements, although important (especially in today’s world of limited nutrients in the soils and rushed-to-market meats), are still intended ONLY to be supplements!!!

It is FAR better, in fact, to learn how to COOK with some of the naturally dried forms of seaweed, for they are WONDERFUL in home-made soups!!!

So in the case of Claire, I focused most on what her overall diet consisted of; and of course I addressed this as best I could in the blog entry of "Holistic Therapy #2."

But for additional impact on her diet, I introduced the following list of supplements into Claire’s morning routine, where she agreed to take all of the following supplements in the morning right before breakfast, with LOTS of water. Her dosage of Spirulina and GABA are divided into TWO "servings" per day. She always saves the “second half” for the evening meal.

Here is what her list of supplements consist of:

Supplement	Size	a.m.	p.m.
Vitamin D-3 Softgels	1000 IU	1
Wild Yam Root Capsules	400mg	8
Kelp Capsules	325 mcg.	4
Spirulina Tablets	500 mg	8	8
GABA with B-6 Capsules	500 mg	1	1
Cod Liver Oil Softgels	650 mg	2
Krill Oil Softgels	500mg	2
Chlorella Tablets	1000mg	2
Probiotic Capsules		2

Living in the Midwest in the winter means especially low Vitamin D blood levels, so I didn’t even bother to test Claire before starting her on Vitamin D3 or the other oil supplements.

But if you REALLY want to play it safe, you SHOULD technically have a person tested for this before automatically adding it to their diet; because this is one Vitamin that IS stored in the body and can be OVER consumed.

Overall, however, Vitamin D levels tend to be low in our culture; and Claire was not exactly the type to be outdoors in the sunshine very often, which is where one acquires their Vitamin D naturally (and it also cannot be overdosed this way). I felt MORE than safe adding these various oils to Claire's list of supplements without testing.

All the rest of these supplements can be given without fear of “overdose.” They’re technically all just "foods" … although the oils HAVE been “separated” from the WHOLE food.

If I had a choice, I would ALWAYS rather a person eat the seaweed and the whole cod fresh from a safe, uncontaminated ocean, but . . . oh well. These supplements will just have to get us by until then.

If you are familiar with some of these supplements, you might even notice that the kelp and spirulina dosages mentioned above are much higher than what are traditionally “prescribed” on the bottles.

But these two are both seaweeds, and thus are VERY safe. They in fact possess the nutrients that her body has literally been “starving for” for a very long time.

It is most important that these supplements are taken with LOTS of water. This came easy for Claire because she doesn’t much like taking pills.

So every morning, she patiently takes EACH and every tablet and capsule with quite a large mouthful of water. By the time she makes it through the entire group, she has consumed quite a BIT of wonderful water, an added benefit that fit in nicely with MY goals! [smile]