to help the inspirations i'm your host as always the goal of the show is to encourage and inspire you to take charge of your life and your health today show's going to be all about nutritional supplements haitian should i take vitamins which ones do i take how do i know what i'm deficient in i'm sure these are all questions you've asked yourself at one time or another and today i have a special guest is going to give us the four one one on vitamins and supplements our guest today joe is a nutritionist who has over you know that everybody in all the little secrets of the trade well i know i go for everything supplementation basically so can you tell me a little bit how you got started working in the field of nutrition because i know fitness and it got to a point where i wanted to learn more and more about actual vitamin supplements and i was lucky enough to get involved with a manufacturer based right here in pittsburgh back in the mid ninety's and they manufactured nutritional supplements specifically sold to professional help care physicians chiropractors all kinds of professional health care so it when we did that i started to get more into therapeutic levels of  is a matter of nutrient depletion and people say why can't you just get all of your nutrients from food and the answer is no for several reasons number one we know that this soil has been depleted of its mineral content since the thirty's that's a fact we know that you know you can't get really good nutritionally sound vegetables and fruits in the wintertime in this part of the country so a lot of times i tell people to eat flash frozen vegetables in the winter because they're going to be more nutrient but you know that's just in the food supply itself and then when you add in all of the processed foods in the fast foods and the chemicals that we're eating i mean really there's only two things you put in your body food and chemicals you've got to reduce the chemicals and increase the food so then that creates these deficient situations and all these health problems so you can't reverse it with just food alone you need therapeutic levels of nutrients that you can only get through supplementation so that's where this comes yeah so one of the things about supplement is it seems to be kind of everywhere and you can get you can get supplements now at the dollar store so i'm going to tell me so tell me why why i want to it's important when you're choosing a supplement to have a really high quality supplement very important manufacturing standards for nutritional supplements have come a long way it started with the act backed in the ninety's the dietary health supplement education act and now we've got new g m p that are being recommended and implemented by the f d a on a regular basis that's good manufacturing practices and it's just it's gotten to the point where if you're go through a quality manufacturer you can guarantee that these things are being tested for efficacy for potency for microbiology and for talk sense now who's going to do what consumer can do all of the due diligence to find out which brands deliver that type of quality you really can't so if you go through a health care professional someone who's involved in integrated health care who knows that there's a place for traditional medicine and for natural medicine then they're going to do all that due diligence for you they're going to seek out companies that will manufacture only to those standards and they'll do the due diligence then you can trust them to get you a nutritional supplement don't buy them at the dollar store i know i was actually shocked when i read some of the labels of what was added and what the fish oil was actually from sardines and i was just like you don't want to get your fish oil if it's really not see the source of like for example with fish oil you want small fish yet very very small fish and you have mackerel sardines and jovis these are all pretty much the first choice because they're low on the food chain which means they'll have less toxins less mercury ok but that's not the problem of fish oil the problem with fish oil is is it being distilled properly and are those are all of those toxins being removed in chemically the still the proper way to get what's called pharmaceutical grade which really just means the highest quality standard you get and most of the ones if they're cheap you're getting rich pay for so it's always cheap is not the way to go when it comes to nutrition and i think it goes the same with organic versus you know you know looking at organic foods better to choose that you're not getting as much as many pets rights and all of those things and i think it's important when it comes to supplements as well to choose to nourish your body really with a higher quality the quality is everything when it comes in the traditional supplementation and since you brought up organic the single most important thing that eat organic are proteins well you meat chicken dairy cheese eggs because then you know that they're organic they're not injected with hormones or fed antibiotics and estrogens to fatten them up but you know that's that's one thing but then again that transfers to supplements you want if you buy away protein powder you want that to come from cows that are pasture fed grass fed not injected with any hormones that all extends to the supplements and so i know you have a new system here that i'm really excited it's called a legal scan correct correct and it actually can show your deficiencies that's true it shows right now this is really exciting this is something that's being brought to the to this country now from france where the technology was perfected and the first phase of this testing device  is going to test mineral density in the body and heavy metal toxicity which is one of the you know most important things right now it also tests oxidative stress which is the amount of damage being done to  to the cells of your bodies from you know free radicals that we ingest and all kinds of ways from food and from toxins in the environment so on but that's the this is phase one in basically what it will take the place of is are in testing your analysis because that's how you get heavy metals and mineral density now and it takes also the place of hair testing which basically this is going to use something called spectro photometry that is the measuring of light all substances either emit absorb or give off light ok and by being able to capture that level of density of the light absorbance of a substance whether it's a toxin or a mineral then you can measure how much is actually in in the tissues of the body and that's important because a your analysis really tests what great thing about tissue density is that it takes a long time for things to get into your tissues and to get concentrated in there so what you're seeing is not just a snapshot of what you had the day before but you're seeing basically a movie of your life i'm up to that point then the next phase of this will be to do saliva testing but again through the something and the great thing about this is you have to send nothing to the lab you get it all get it all instantaneously it's all done online with a lab in france all the data is sent online from the  lab and you get it back within minutes within minutes within minutes wow ok so this is pretty it this is just new it's not even i mean is it officially it's brand new we it's being done right now in europe and but we just received our f d a our class one exemption so we're ready to start marketing now states so it's brand new it's not out there yet i mean this is a this is what i know i have t start testing a patient you need some basic information ok ok all you really need is their height weight sex blood type that's basically it and age and age so we have all that so that we didn't have to ask lindsey on air any of those questions but that's already been keyed in and then once we have that in the blood type orsen is very important this is the actual spectra photometer ok it's just  camera basically and it this picture photometry has been used in other industries for years really but it's always been very large converse in machines you can measure light light measurement has been going on for a long time  this is the first time it's actually being done for medical results in the body ok and it will measure the tissues the density of those of the heavy metals and the and the mineral density in her tissues so all we have to do is take four measurements we place the photometer on her hand shoot an infrared light into the of tissues and the machine tells us that that measurement was good to make the second one we make the second  something's happening to the polar bear is melting away two thirds of the world's bears will be gone by twenty fifty and the entire species could be go to save the polar bear dot org today what's going on with me and also give you some of the information some of the stuff we were talking and i says and this is good because you can now do the physician who does this test can do immediate protocol immediate don't have there's no waiting you can then prescribe the nutrients that are needed or what the talks and occasion might be needed and get started immediately that's the key so we're going start with the good news in the first thing is toxic metals and we from the charge here fillings fillings are the number one copper if a suspension if you have fillings that maybe have broken or of come out or chipped then that vapor then goes into the tissues and it stays there until you get it out and diet but however and that's the beauty of this device it shows you what you're the fish in it so what do you just i just can't even believe how fast the food and how fast that is right so what you do that is now you can start supplementing with a multi mineral and maybe more specifically with two of the major ones counseling magnesium look a lot that are very important so and then the other thing we wanted to talk about was iodine yes i did and i was i'm low in that kind of very low and iodine and  there is there's a lot of physicians that i work with across the country that believe that most i would issues are not really a mouth or malfunction or if i were gland itself but the glands not getting its key nutrient which is iodine and many times that's the case that you just iodine the fish and if you supplement with and i dine product that gives you the right amount then you can you can bring that up and then feed the fire out and when you feed the body in any part of it usually works pretty well yeah so so how much how long after so if i do supplementation how long after would you expect me to have come in for another test i would say depending on what we're working on three to i'm sorry one to three months ok because if it was if you were toxic i want to see again in a month ok if i was your physician i want to put you on a detox protocol and start and monitor it on a monthly basis that's it but if it's just that you're mineral protocol and then that's right and i think that's one thing that's important too is as much as i eat healthy and i do the right things and i exercise and you know take my certain supplements i may have not been taking the right one correct fortunately and unfortunately this is good because i ninety eight percent of the population is the fish and about them oh yeah i'm going to be very good ninety eight percent i mean we're just the deficient as a culture it's one of those it's like a pandemic in this country which is a geographically located epidemic ok that's and that's what it is with vitamin d because a few reasons ok number one we've been told to stay out of the sun which is completely wrong the sun is not the enemy if it were the human race would have died off thousands of years ago i think because we've only been inside the last hundred hundred fifty years so what happened before that yeah how can the sun didn't kill us the sun is not the enemy it's being it's being stupid in the sun it's what's bad you don't want to burn obviously you know you want to go out there and i yes up until lately they've now been able to produce low e m f beds that require less and here's another big fantasy we know that in this country one of the biggest drugs you know the staten drugs the cholesterol lowering drugs ok this is so important vitamin d is really not a vitamin c for all it's and it's a hormone  hormones require chemical reactions in the body to be absorbed in order for you to absorb the sun's rays and convert it into vitamin d guess what you need cholesterol and we have been on a warpath on cholesterol and i think the wrong war path but we take an interest as a country we take more staton drugs than anywhere in the world yeah and when you take these drugs they stop the production of cholesterol in your liver they don't so it's when that happens you don't have the cholesterol molecules in the skin the convert the sun's rays so these are all things that are adding up to this vitamin d deficiency gotcha that's interesting but i mean these one of the biggest one of the biggest it is so important receptor sites in the body or in the thousands it affects your d n a it affects cancer cell growth and destruction of those cells  increases the ptosis which is the destruction of mutated cells ok and and then it also decreases angiogenesis which is the increase of new blood cells which are needed to feed the cancer so vitamin d works from both hands and even just helps your immune system in general to produce everything that it needs it's just what it is it's not a fad it's a wonder nutrient we are deficient in it and the only way to get it is through supplementation and i love the one that you have because it's in liquid format this is available on food girl dot com this is one of the ones i private labeled with the help of joe thank you for that we like it because it's a liquid  since vitamin d is more of a hormone than a vitamin hormones taken orally are better absorbed in the mucous membrane of the mouth gotcha than in the gut so if you take a vitamin d in a capsule you might not get good absorption let's take a liquid and you'll get maximum absorption yeah this is great i love i love that so what other so vitamin d is there anything else you recommend kind of like a strain if someone is new to supplementation obviously quality that's the most important thing that we can do  qualified health professional than those what they're doing in the tradition ok and then any is there you know as a multi vitamin you know there's basics that everybody needs and everybody needs a good multi vitamin mental ok because we're not getting it from the food supply everybody needs to make a three fatty acids and i just don't eat enough good fat fish and we're living where we do we're not on the coast here so you know it's harder yet get your omega three fatty acids one of the biggest problems we encounter is digestion ok the little purple pill is all over the place that's something we don't want to talk about either now it's kind of like it's bad and you know why because we've depleted our supplies of  body you know with the pleated our national natural enzyme production from the chemicals from the antibiotics all the things that we've done so getting a good probiotic and a good digestive enzymes should be paramount for everybody ok good multi vitamin good to make it three probiotics and enzymes and vitamin d which should be the basis of everybody's nutritional protocol yeah and that's i mean i think that's a good you know it's not overwhelming you know and it's and it can be very simple  can and it should be simple because of the hearty you make it you know people will not comply yet and you know you work with and with lots of consumers on lifestyle and you know how hard it once was and how important it is yes although i have to tell you one of my clients just lost  hundred twenty pounds and over on a long of a time well he was over a half ton so he was almost six hundred pounds and he is off half his medications and the doctor said within a few more months he'll be able to be these diseases that we're seeing can be can be reverse oh absolutely they can the body has a tremendous ability to heal if you feed it properly yes you know you can't you know that the jews i view point this this new friends you see in the junk food thing there's no such thing as junk food there's just food and junk well you know that's it's true and really like i said earlier you know if you you can only put food or chemicals in your body you've got you know if there's more food if there are more chemicals than food products on the label my god i don't eat it that's sort of all that's simply yeah it can be but it isn't easy i know yeah so those are the small steps that people can take and that's where you come in you know we need we need more lindsay's guy days people out there because everybody needs that guidance you know where to start it is because it can be very overwhelming even like i said myself to someone who knows this stuff it's healthy i still you know need support i know i'll call you and say hey this is going on what can i how can i help supplement daughter you know work with this issue because there's just having that support is i think a really good tool for any money journey and you know the old physician he thyself you know where are we the worst patients we were good at guiding the moon comes to ourselves we need help yes exactly so well thank you joe this was so informative working people find more information about or direct them to the right place and the illegal scan is coming soon to a physician there you say if your eyes open for awesome great thank you and thank you for turning tuning into healthy inspirations as always the goal of the show is to 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