I wanted to do a little recap because it is really easy to miss a few important points along the way and I don’t want to rush on to another topic without making sure we just have a little recap.  So let’s begin…..

I had a chance yesterday to watch a show I had taped while trying to finish my little hats for the maternity ward (doing my feel good duties to help my brain heal), and as I was watching I was floored to hear Dr. Oz say the exact thing I had said a few blogs ago, to use the pulp from your juicers. I actually yelled out,”hey that’s what I just blogged about last week!!” So I was thrilled someone else thought along the same lines as I did.

I really think it is important to use the pulp because just look at the ingredients you are wasting if you throw it away. All the good vitamins and minerals are being left in the waste containers of the juicers or strainers. I also mentioned I would give an update on the pulp freezies I made. Yumm!!! they were (past tense) delicious. I actually liked it more then just using it for a kelp sauce on the side of my pancakes. The frozen pulp from my Kale juice tasted more like a pineapple pop it was really good. I have to make my juice again today and my pulp will be used as freezies again, yum! On Dr. Oz, he had a few more ideas about using the left over puree in cookies and in soups. Soups I had thought about previously but have not tried it and as for cookies, I did not think of that one, lol but they did look good and then I thought, hmm puree and oatmeal cookies, that could be yummy. He mentioned he would have the recipes on his web site that he and his followers had submitted. So that is the pulp update.

Remember how good your juices taste, well, so does the pulp, and it is loaded with essential nutrients that you are not getting from just throwing it away and using the juice. Just because you juice, does not mean you get everything good out of your fruit and vegetable. You still need to eat the whole product to reap all the benefits.

Okay, so we’ve spoke a lot lately about a couple of Vit B’s. Mainly B12 and B6. They do seem to have quite a lot in common and the main thing to take from them is that they are excellent vitamins to boost our energy and brain health, organ efficiency and especially helping to repair and systain our nerve functions. “OH ME NERVES!!” Therefore anyone with any mental illness or disease, headache/migraine illness, and nerve disease will benefit from higher doses of Vit B in order to help repair or help to re-coat the myelin shealth around the nerves helping to give better transmission to our brains.

Like all vitamins, Vit B’s are a definite ripple effect, once it helps to repair or restore in one area then another area like the stomach, heart, digestive systems, muscles, circulatory systems and more all reap the benefits. I had mentioned that keeping Vit B in the fridge will help to keep their potency for longer but I forgot to mention how it turns your pee bright yellow. Just like you’ve poured Mr. Clean in the toilet bowl. Don’t be alarmed it is just the extra Vit B that your body is eliminating.

Next we spoke about Vit D and before hand of Magnesium. So firstly Vit D which as we had learned we receive as Vit D3, mainly taken from fish liver oil. D3 has not been widely looked upon until recently, meaning 1980’s to present, and since then have found that Vitamin D is not only helpful as a vitamin but we need it in our bodies to help with making important hormones. Once again D3 is very important to brain health and all associated with it and is a major influence in helping reduce depression and heart disease.  Just saying… but especially to men over 45 (and women), it’s time to start thinking about your heart health, and what a great way to give your heart a hug, but with Vitamin D3.

It can be produced through our skin through sunlight, but one would need to get at least 10-30 minutes of sun everyday which is not always easy to do, and the sun needs to be direct on our skin, which is not always possible. Between clothing and sunscreen, which are needed to help shield our skin from cancer causing rays and skin damage, the amounts of Vitamin D that actually gets though is minimal compared to what we need. Also if you’re not a big cod liver oil supplementer or eater of fatty cold water fish, you are probably not getting enough through your diet as well. Yes we get supplemented through our dairy, but once again not in the levels we need. I had informed you that we can safely take 200-400IU of Vit D3 but that has been increased now to ages 16 and under taking 200-400IU, an adult being able to take 600IU, a senior up to 800IU and anything over these amounts to be taken on advice of your doctor or naturopath.

I had also mentioned that when eating or taking cod liver oil you will also be reaping the benefits of not only Vit D3 but also Omega 3’s, which I will get into in an upcoming blog.  With dementia, heart disease, auto immune diseases and cancers on the rise, these simple supplements can give your body the tools it needs to help make repairs and keep your body healthy before more damage is done.  It’s about maintaining your health before real damage happens.  The studies are out there, these vitamins and minerals are essential nutrients to prevent and repair serious health damage.

Which now leads us back to my favorite Magnesium. So the main magnesium I take and talk about is Magnesium Citrate because so far, it seems to be the one the body uses the most of when taken orally, therefore you get more benefits from. Magnesium mainly reduces inflammation in soft tissue and bones helping to calm all reactions in the body and letting them happen at a more comfortable and smoother rate of action. This is a mineral which has the ripple effect of helping in a certain area, then rippling it’s benefits right throughout your whole body. From reducing pain and inflammation, increased neurotransmissions, decrease in high blood pressure and heart disease, aids in body temperature control and much more as mentioned in my blog “The Power Of Magnesium” and “Charzie’s Magnesium Tricks.” It is a known mineral needed in aiding those with mental illness, pain or depression, heart disease right to fighting cancer.

Any vitamin and mineral that helps your brain, helps your heart and whole digestive system. I’m going to call it the “Ripple Effect.” A vitamin or mineral just doesn’t help one thing, it helps a whole host of areas.

These vitamins and minerals are not supplements we should be afraid of, they are actual, needed, vital, important components that run our bodies and without them you can obviously see the devastation it is causing. Just look at the people you know and the ailments they suffer from that could be helped with added vitamins and minerals that the body is extremely deficient in. The pain that your body is crying out to you about is from a vitamin or mineral deficiency. Yes we also need Western Medicine to help us get back on top of our game, but we also need to rely upon the back bone that makes up our whole existence, and that it the nutrients we need to survive. Is there any study that has ever shown that we naturally have Prozac in our veins or that we have Coversyl in our blood streams….NO….. we have and need vitamins and minerals to help the body help itself.

These prescription drugs help us to get our bodies back up and running and are important in many ways as well, but without the back bones of what we are deficient in, we will never get off medications, and will only end up taking more, because with the more medications you take, the more vitamins and minerals you destroy, destroying the healthy nerves, soft tissues and bones that make up a human being.

So yes, take your medications, but please supplement as well and return all of those vital nutrients back into your body that it is crying out for. Start with a multivitamin, it will help to even get the lower levels of nutrients back in store and then find out which ones you need to increase, depending on your ailment. You CANNOT take one without the other.

Sorry for my little rant but it is important. If I had kept taking prescription meds I would now be on even more prescription medications, but because I found out what I am deficient in, now my prescription medications are at a minimum, and my vitamin intake is helping to repair my body while my prescription medications help me deal with the pain. I can’t take one without the other. We need a symbiotic relationship between our prescription medications and our alternative (back bone of our health) vitamins and minerals.

I hope I have inspired you to think about what you are taking and what you are missing, and hopefully you will resort to replenishing the good things again with food and supplements. From here, we will move on to the next round of vitamins which helped to increase my brain health and overall wellness.

HAPPY HEALING!!!