All of our bodies work a little differently from each other. We age differently,
react to illness and stress differently, and are different in our
capacities to extract, utilize and store nutritional materials from
the foods we eat. Our bodies are like supermarkets. They constantly
need their shelves to be restocked in order to supply all the needed
materials to their functions and millions of biosystems. Generally,
as we get older, our nutritional stores become depleted and it becomes
harder to restock our shelves with just the foods we eat.
No matter how good our diet may be, the chances are that we are
not efficiently assimilating the nutrients we need as we grow older.
Poor assimilation of nutrients (malabsorption) may be due to a poor
diet or just an increasing inability to extract the nutrients from
the foods we eat, but nonetheless, when nutrients are in short supply
and can no longer be found on the supermarket's shelves of the body,
parts of our nutritionally-dependent biochemistry will slow down,
stall and even stop altogether.
When nutritional shortages are experienced throughout the body,
they in turn put pressure on a number of biosystems and biochemical
pathways to become less efficient. Although the body begins to try
to compensate for these shortages, by "robbing Peter to pay Paul"
in rationing out nutrients to preferred biosystems which are determined
to be more life essential and life sustaining, little can be done
if the shortages continue for any length of time and there are no
recovery strategies. As more subsystems within the body are shut
down, "life" begins to lose its vitality and interest for us, our
Immune System weakens and the possibility of serious disease becomes
certain.
Therefore, it is vitally essential that specific restocking or
reloading strategies be practiced by those of us who are in relatively
good health now and wish to remain so, and a second strategy for
those of us who have suffered from serious illness in the recent
past and need our nutritional shelves to be restocked.
General Restocking & Reloading Strategies:
When beginning any new Nutraceutical, it's often best to increase
the usual dosage, or that which is recommended on the bottle, for
the first 7-14 days in order to restock and reload the nutritional
shelves of the body. Restocking and reloading are nutritional strategies
which are similar to "priming" a pump so that it can begin to draw
up the water in a well. If we don't "prime" the pump first, then it's
likely the pump just won't work. Similarly, restocking and reloading
are strategies which aim at supplying particular nutrients to selected
areas of the biochemistry of our body. If we don't first amply restore
the needed nutrients to our "shelves," the body's biochemistry will
not function correctly, believing it still has to "rob Peter to pay
Paul." Upon restocking our nutritional "shelves," the body may then
direct its activities in fulfilling its list of priorities by refurbishing
and reestablishing many of its preferred/life dependent biochemical
pathways to those of less priority. Only when the "shelves" have been
appropriately restocked will the body ensure that all priorities are
fulfilled. Restocking also ensures that any possible biochemical "hole"
or weakness in our nutritional makeup is filled in so as to prevent
future biochemical stalls.
In general, restocking and reloading strategies simply call for
the doubling (2x) of the normal recommended dose for a period of
7-14 days. After that time, resume maintenance dosages as can be
found on the bottle's directions for use.
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