Health Risks Of Vitamins Vs Minerals
- At May 20, 2024
- By Daniel
- In Diet, Education, Health & Wellness, New Video
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The symptoms some people associate with foods like gluten, lectins, and others may be due to taking high dose vitamin and mineral supplements. Why manufacturers want consumers to believe all vitamin and mineral supplements are safe. Their safety is usually associated with healthy individuals. People who are overweight, have high blood pressure, or diabetes are not healhty. The warnings on supplement bottles are usually inadequate.
In this video:
• Difference between vitamins and minerals. 00:48
• A little is essential, a lot can be fatal. 2:26
• Water soluble vitamins; the safest vitamins. 3:13
• Fat soluble vitamins tolerable upper limits. 3:51
• High dose mineral supplement health risks. 4:58
Iron Overload
- At September 10, 2023
- By Daniel
- In Diet, Education, Health & Wellness, New Video
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When vitamins and minerals come from natural foods, the risk of an overdose is low. Many people take dietary supplements, especially fat soluble vitamins and minerals believing if a little is good, a lot should be better. While the body does not store most water soluble vitamins, it can store some minerals like iron. Excess iron usually ends up in the heart and liver. Untreated iron overload can be fatal. This video shares some of the risks of iron overload.
In this video:
• Why is iron essential? 00:53
• Iron and ferritin. 1:21
• Health risks due to iron overload. 2:24
• Medically reducing high blood iron levels. 4:48
• Sources of dietary iron. 5:39
• Foods that increase iron absorption. 6:27
• Foods that decrease iron absorption. 8:01
Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
- At July 22, 2022
- By Daniel
- In Diet, Education, Health & Wellness, New Video
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Poor diets are contributing not only to weight gain and obesity, but to an increase in Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD). NAFLD can damage the livers ability to regenerate increasing the risk of cirrohis.
In this video:
• What is nonalcoholic fatty liver disease? 00:38
• What causes NAFLD? 1:60
• Symptoms of NAFLD. 2:47
• Preventing NAFLD. 3:54
