Food First, Then Supplements
Vitamins and other dietary supplements
are not intended to be a food substitute. They cannot replace all of the
nutrients and benefits of whole foods.
Experts agree that the best way to get
the nutrients we need is through food. A balanced diet — one containing plenty
of fruits, vegetables, and whole grains — offers a mix of vitamins, minerals,
and other nutrients (some yet to be identified) that collectively meet the
body's needs. Food contains thousands of
phytochemicals, fiber, and more that work together to promote good
health. Maybe what counts is the synergistic interactions of these nutrients —
which might also help explain why trials of single nutrients often don't pan
out.
Each Rule has an Exception
Most of the vitamins and nutrients can
be found in food, but not all.
There are at least 2 components that
have to come in form of supplements – Fibroblast Growth Factors and Vitamin D.
Important role of FGF in cell functions,
healing and regeneration processes.
Fibroblast growth factors (FGFs) that signal through FGF receptors (FGFRs) regulate a broad spectrum of biological functions, including cellular proliferation, survival, migration, and differentiation.
FGF actively regulate various cellular
functions, bone and tissue healing and regeneration.
Growth
factors provide chemical cues to stem cells, regulating their biological
responses and tissue differentiation. FGFs exert multiple functions through the
binding into and activation of fibroblast growth factor receptors (FGFRs), and
the main signaling. With their potential biological functions, FGFs have been
utilized for the regeneration of damaged tissues, including skin, blood vessel,
muscle, adipose, tendon/ligament, cartilage, bone, tooth, and nerve.
In other words FGF acts as signaling
proteins that activate stem cells so that our body will use activated stem
cells as building blocks where it is most necessary.
As we grow older levels of FGF are declining
and our bodies are “loosing” its natural ability to heal and regenerate.
FGF Supplements
Laminine
and Laminine Omega+++ contain FGFs and allow to bridge deficiency gap.
FGFs,
contained in these supplements, are derived from fertilized avian eggs (whole
food) on the ninth day at the pick of FGF concentration. One capsule contains about
78000 nutrients including 22 amino acids.
Laminine
and Laminine
Omega +++ are the only food source of FGFs.
Make
it a part of your daily regimen.
Vitamin D
Such important vitamin like Active Vitamin
D can’t be found in food. Some minimal amounts can be found, but our body still
has to process it to produce active form of vitamin D.
In its active form, Vitamin D is the
most powerful steroid hormone in our bodies. According to The Vitamin D Council,
there are a known 2,000 genes that are just waiting for vitamin D to turn them
on or off. So we have two options – take supplements and get some sun exposure.
Under the right circumstances, 10 to 15
minutes of sun on the arms and legs a few times a week can generate nearly all
the vitamin D we need. Unfortunately, the “right circumstances” are elusive:
the season, the time of day, where you live, cloud cover, and even pollution
affect the amount of UVB that reaches your skin. What’s more, your skin’s
production of vitamin D is influenced by age (people ages 65 and over generate
only one-fourth as much as people in their 20s do), skin color (African
Americans have, on average, about half as much vitamin D in their blood as
white Americans), and sunscreen use (though experts don’t all agree on the
extent to which sunscreen interferes with sun-related vitamin D production).
Lack of sun exposure would be less of a
problem if diet provided adequate vitamin D. But there aren’t many vitamin
D–rich foods (it’s absent from all natural foods except fish and egg yolks, and
even when it’s obtained from foods, it must be transformed by the body before
it can do any good), and you need to eat a lot of them to get 800 to 1,000 IU
per day. People who have trouble absorbing dietary fat — such as those with
Crohn’s disease or celiac disease — can’t get enough vitamin D from diet no
matter how much they eat (vitamin D requires some dietary fat in the gut for
absorption). And people with liver and kidney disease are often deficient in
vitamin D, because these organs are required to make the active form of the
vitamin, whether it comes from the sun or from food.
Most experts
now recommend a daily intake to up to 2,000 international units (IU), an amount
that's considered to be safe and very difficult to get through foods or sun
exposure (unless you spent lots of time outdoors). Take a vitamin D supplement in fat-soluble
form.
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