Published April 6, 2015

How long does it take a bad diet to cause problems?

Let's say you radically changed your diet to one that was deficient in various vitamins or minerals. How long do you think it would take before your body started showing the signs of a nutritional deficiency? One month? One year? Longer? It may surprise you to learn that poor diets often create damage to your body long before the final signs show up. Here is a case of a woman whose poor diet did not start to damage her eyes until three or four years later.

 

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Published April 3, 2015

Why you might need more than 5,000 IU of vitamin D

Why is it that so many people need to take a vitamin D supplement in order to have optimal levels? We're supposed to be able to make vitamin D after we go into the sunlight. But I have reported to you in the past that for most people, sunlight is just not enough. And here's another question. Why do some of us need to take such high vitamin D doses in order to have optimal levels? I need to take 15,000 units a da

 

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Published April 1, 2015

Why most multivitamins won't stop cardiovascular disease

It's April Fool's Day, but don't fool yourself. Multivitamins like my Super Immune QuickStart can do wonderful things. But the dose is critical. Small one-a-day multis might be inexpensive and look good on the label, but they are not going to cut it. I'm not going to be one of those docs who just wants to sell you a multi no matter how puny and ineffective it is. That's not me. My job is to keep you healthy. So I'm going to tell you about a new study that pretty clearly shows that simply taking any old multivitamin is just not enough to protect you from cardiovascular disease or anything else either.

 

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