Seven Nutrition Mistakes

Nutrition Talk is All Over the News and Much Misinformation Abounds

1. Everybody is Using Fish Oil also Known as Omega 3 Fatty Acids

It all started with the Eskimo’s so-called good health that people thought came from eating fish. Recently, researchers and marketers jumped all over it. What they missed is that Omega 6 fatty acids are far more important than Omega 3’s. If you consume too many Omega 3’s that blocks the use of the Omega 6’s. The result is a nutritional deficiency.

2. Many Supplement with Zinc

Both copper and zinc should be balanced and the ratio of zinc to copper intake should never exceed 10 to 1; that’s 10 milligrams of zinc to 1 milligram of copper. All the classic signs of cardiovascular disease that in the past has been blamed on cholesterol and fat actually occur with a zinc/copper imbalance.

3. Mineral Imbalances

Minerals take up space in a capsule so manufacturers scrimp on minerals to save money and because people want it all in one pill.

4. Shotgun Approach

This is where individuals purchase a jar of this and a jar of that. I recently reviewed the supplement list for one of my clients — it was two pages long! And he was still missing things.

5. Using Supplements as Drugs

The popularity of using supplements to fight disease is high. Many people have come to believe that many diseases occur because of nutritional deficiencies. Nutraceuticals is a term that describes using supplements to fight disease.

6. People are Missing Out on Energy Medicine Because It’s Time Has Not Come

It’s all on the fringes: acupuncture, homeopathy, radionics, and hands on healing. It’s 30-40 years out yet. How do I know? Because all the stuff I began to do in 1970, that no one else was doing, is now posted on all the magazines at the checkout counter at the supermarket. Energy medicine is the next big thing. The recent success of the book, The Secret , is part of this movement.

7. Continuing to Consume a Low-Fat Diet

The news is in, but it hasn’t gotten out yet: the low-fat diet is a health hazard. By definition, a low-fat diet is high in carbohydrates which means that glycated proteins will form. This news is also in, but not out yet: glycated proteins are responsible for all degenerative diseases.

Introducing Dr. Gregory Ellis’s Multi-Vitamin and Mineral Supplement

Are You Confused About What Multi-Vitamin and Mineral You Should Take?

I’ll Bet You Are!

You want to take a daily multi-vitamin and mineral supplement, but you have no idea which one to choose:

• so, you buy the one your friend uses
• or you read an ad that convinces you to buy the advertised product with its dazzling label

But… are you making an informed decision about the supplement that you’ll use? Did your friend do his or her homework? Is the advertisement’s marketing information accurate?

You may think that choosing a multi-vitamin and mineral supplement for your daily use is an easy task. It’s not. In fact, it’s very difficult to find a supplement that provides you with all the essential nutrients that you are not — that’s right, not– receiving from your current diet.

Hundreds of supplement manufacturers produce thousands of multi-vitamin and mineral supplements to fill the shelves of many thousands of retail stores. At the end of the supplement chain is you and your money.

To make matters worse… anyone with enough money to manufacture a product is, literally, in the nutritional supplement business.

Knowledge. Research. Experience. Forget it. Not required, not Needed.

If there’s a buck to be made, they’ll make it at your expense — at both the expense of your hard earned dollars and, in the worst case, at the expense of your health.

Are magazines a good source of information? No. Just some hack writer pounding away at his computer keyboard, re-writing thoughts and ideas he read about in some other magazine that some other guy had read about in yet another magazine.

What about the multi-vitamin and mineral products sold in the mass market? Forget them: the quality and truth in advertising are gone. The product is half-baked, a glimmer of what it should be.

Why? Because there are at least 3-6 levels of profit-taking between the manufacturer and the consumer. Everyone along the way takes a piece of the profit pie. No one is skipped.

Don’t Be Fooled: Basics First, Essential Nutrients vs. Nutraceuticals

The most important issue that you need to understand in choosing the multi-vitamin and mineral supplement that you’ll use is the differences between all of the nutrients that are packaged and sold to consumers through thousands of distribution outlets.

There are two specific groups of supplements available in the marketplace:

• the first group comprises the Essential vitamins and minerals
• these are the nutrients you must derive from your diet each day
• the second group comprises those supplements for which you have no need
• if you don’t eat foods containing them, or swallow a pill containing them, no damage occurs to your body

A new name has developed over the last several years to describe the nutrients in this group: Nutraceuticals. Your goal in using a basic daily nutritional supplement should be to use the one that provides you, first, all of your Essential nutritional needs.

The use of Nutraceuticals is not of primary importance, and you should only consider using Nutraceuticals after committing to follow a supplement program that provides all of the Essential nutrients, properly balanced, and formulated with the most effective ingredients.

Basics First… That’s the Design Idea Behind Dr. Gregory Ellis’s Formulations

My formulations contain all of the Essential multi-vitamins and minerals. And, for each nutrient, I used the most highly absorbed and effective nutrient available… regardless of cost!

Compare Dr. Gregory Ellis’s Vitamin & Anti-Oxidant Formula and Chelated Minerals to all the others in the marketplace:

• Chelated Minerals instead of inexpensive, poorly absorbed, sources
• pyridoxal-5-phosphate as the source of Vitamin B6, result: higher absorption and increased benefit to you
• highly absorbed riboflavin-5-phosphate as a source of Vitamin B2
• natural Vitamin E instead of synthetic Vitamin E
• a full 50 mg of CoQ 10, a powerful anti-oxidant
• both Vitamin A and beta carotene
• inositol hexanicotinate instead of the less effective niacin
• the highly active form of Vitamin B5 called Pantethine
• and very important… a perfect balance between all of these Essential vitamins and minerals

An Absolutely Foolproof Way to Know Whether Your Multi-Vitamin and Mineral Supplement Will Meet Your Needs

How many capsules you take each day! I bet you never heard this one before.

What most people are looking for is how few capsules they can take each day, not how many. This is a critical mistake

• it takes a specific quantity of a multi-vitamin and mineral supplement to meet your daily needs
• you simply cannot get around this
• you cannot defy the laws of physics
• the nutrient weighs something and takes up a specific volume of space
• it cannot be compressed so it takes up less spaceit just is… and that’s that!

This is true for all nutrients, but especially for minerals. Minerals, such as calcium, are always attached to a carrier source. For example, calcium is attached to carbonate, or gluconate, as the carrier. The percent breakdown for calcium carbonate is 40% as calcium and 60% as carbonate.

The tablet or capsule that you ingest contains both calcium and its carrier source. High-quality minerals, such as my Chelated Minerals, are a small percentage of minerals and a high percentage of the carrier source. In my calcium amino acid chelate, calcium is 15% of the total chemical source. So, to receive the right amount of calcium, I must use a lot of the chelate to deliver the full, proper dose of calcium.

To deliver the right amount of calcium to your body each day requires a little over three capsules. And that’s just for calcium!

Many people look for a multi-vitamin and mineral supplement whose directions and marketing message claim that only 1 capsule per day, or 3 per day, or even 6 per day will cover their nutrient needs. Most people can’t or don’t like to swallow pills. The fewer they have to swallow each day, the happier they are.

But, if you want your supplement to provide what you need, then forget about 1 pill per day, or 3, or even 6… this isn’t enough to get the job done when using pure-grade, maximum-effect raw ingredients. If you believe you can do it in 1 pill per day, you suffer from wishful thinking.

Nutrient Absorption… the Key to High Quality Supplements

The chemical composition of the raw materials making up multi-vitamin and mineral supplements is of paramount importance. This concept is little discussed and poorly understood by most purchasers of products. It is also poorly understood by most supplement manufacturers. Their most important concern is the final selling price of the product and the net, bottom-line profit they will realize, not the quality and effectiveness of the final product. Money talks, science walks!

The use of mineral amino acid chelates is an absolute requirement for proper nutritional supplement formulations:

• amino acid chelates combine the Essential mineral with an amino acid
• amino acids are the building blocks for proteins; there are 22 amino acids
• the strong chemical bond between the amino acid and the mineral yields a product that doesn’t break down in the stomach

This is critical to the successful absorption of minerals from the intestinal tract where the absorption of minerals occurs. Amino acids are readily absorbed from the intestine, and the mineral (that is bound to the amino acid by the chelation process) is “smuggled” across the intestinal cells into the blood disguised as an amino acid.

This is why chelated minerals do not compete against other minerals for absorption. Nutritional supplements using 100% mineral chelates provide the highest levels of absorption for essential minerals. Example: calcium carbonate absorbs at about 10-15% but calcium chelate absorbs 95% because amino acids absorb at 95%.

Balance of Nutrients: Particularly Minerals

The interactions between nutrients, particularly minerals are another important aspect of nutrient supplementation. You might wonder why an understanding of the relationship between requirements for, and toxicity of, essential trace elements (minerals) is important.

Because essential trace elements are nutrients, many people assume that a little bit is good, more will be better, and they self medicate. This can be very dangerous mistake.

The work by Dr. Leslie Klevay over the last 25 years has consistently shown the negative health impact of too much zinc and too little copper. Deleterious health effects begin to show up when the zinc to copper ratio exceeds 10 mg of zinc to 1 mg of copper.

I have analyzed hundreds of multi-vitamin and mineral supplements over the years and it’s rare indeed that a product has a proper balance and quantity of these two essential trace elements: zinc and copper. Most often, the amount of copper is woefully deficient and the amount of zinc is dangerously high.

This point is so important that Dr. Klevay has argued that it’s the balance of the zinc to copper ratio that’s the primary risk factor for heart disease. Not fat and cholesterol — the zinc to copper ratio! By manipulating the zinc to copper ratio in laboratory studies, he has induced all of the risk factors of heart disease!

It’s not uncommon for supplement users to ingest more than 50 mg of zinc each day. Copper intake for many users of supplements is marginal or nonexistent.

Antioxidants: the Most Popular, and Most Misunderstood, Category of Nutritional Supplements

Free radicals form by the body cells as they break down food to release stored energy from the food to do the mechanical and chemical work of the body. Free radicals, in excess quantities, can damage the body’s genetic material, immune system, and the cell membranes that maintain the integrity of our organs and systems, ultimately, and our total health.

There are two types of antioxidants: those that are fat-soluble and those that are water-soluble. The body’s First Line of Defense against free radicals in the Anti-Oxidant Defense System is the fat layer of all cells and cellular membranes. The Second Line of Defense is the aqueous or water-phase area of the cell.

The primary nutrients in the First Line of Defense include CoQ 10, vitamin E, and vitamin C. The Second Line of Defense includes various bioflavonoids such as vitamin P and other phytochemicals (plant based, herb-like chemicals). The current emphasis on nutritional supplements, such as the inclusion of bioflavonoids, over-emphasizes their role in the body’s Antioxidant strategy. This often happens at the expense of the most essential nutrients.

Choose the Best… Dr. Gregory Ellis’s Vitamin & Anti-Oxidant Formula and Chelated Minerals

This is not a mass-market product, but a specialized formula for use by health-conscious consumers. I took the guess work out of choosing a multi-vitamin and mineral supplement for your daily needs.

This formulation is the result of a years-long, meticulous study of nutrition basics and of the discovery that I could not find a quality product for my clients in my nutrition practice. So, I made my own. Recent developments in raw ingredient manufacturing provided sources of essential nutrients that are of the highest quality and usefulness.

Product features include:

• balance of all ingredients, especially the minerals that can be toxic and unsafe if misused
• top-quality raw ingredients
• quality unmatched by other products
• one-stop shopping, finding a formulation to match these two product’s ingredients would require mixing and matching many bottles of individual nutrients with monthly costs exceeding $150.00
• this product is not available in health food stores

If you’re looking for run-of-the-mill health food store multi-vitamin-mineral product, my product is not for you. If you’re looking for the best, you can’t find any better than Dr. Gregory Ellis’s Vitamin & Anti-Oxidant Formula and Chelated Minerals.