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VITAMANNA (Morning Manna, Midday Manna, Evening Manna) – a combination of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, digestive enzymes, probiotics, and phyronutrients.
An excerpt from Dr. Kim’s book Nine Secrets of Health pages 88-99.
The vitamins and minerals listed in the table above aren’t the only nutrients you need to stay healthy. Actually, you need to give your body a total of 88 essential nutrients that you can’t produce on your own. These essential nutrients include 60 minerals, 16 vitamins and phytonutrients, nine amino acids, and three fatty acids. You should do all that you can to get essential nutrients from foods by eating healthy, well-balanced meals. After all, no amount of supplementing can replace the way a great meal makes you feel. But since there’s no way you’ll get all the nutrients you need from food alone, you need to take supplements to complement food. In fact, the October 2002 edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that every adult should supplement because it has become impossible to get essential nutrients through diet alone.
If you don’t get all of the essential nutrients your body needs, then you will be at a high risk of contracting the following diseases. Supplementing is the only way to ward off many of these problems.
These diseases aren’t the only problems you’ll face if you aren’t providing your body with the vitamins and minerals it needs. Calcium deficiency alone can cause 147 different diseases!
So far in this book, I’ve talked about macronutrients, which are the big food groups—proteins, sugar, and fats. Now, I’m going to discuss micronutrients, which are the small things your body needs to ingest: vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients. Micronutrients don’t produce energy on their own, but they play a role in turning macronutrients into energy.
Vitamins are organic compounds required as nutrients in humans. There are 14 identified vitamins—eight of these are part of the B complex— and we need all of them to stay alive. Vitamins can’t be made in our bodies, so we have to get them from outside sources. There are two basic groups of vitamins out there: those that are water soluble and those that dissolve in fat. Each vitamin does something different in our bodies, and each is essential. For example, Vitamin K helps blood clot; if we don’t get enough of this vitamin, our blood would keep flowing after a minor cut. Read over the following table of essential vitamins to learn more about each one.
Minerals are simple, inorganic elements like calcium and potassium. Our bodies need more than 60 different minerals to survive! Of these 60, 16 essential minerals are the most important. These are broken down into two groups—major minerals and minor minerals. The “major” group includes calcium, phosphorous, sodium, potassium, chloride, sulfur and magnesium; these seven elements are the most important minerals we need and should be ingested in daily doses of at least 100 mg. The remaining nine minerals are minor, which means our bodies’ need them only in trace amounts. The minor minerals are: iron, selenium, copper, chromium, zinc, fluoride, manganese, molybdenum and iodine.
These essential minerals help our bodies function correctly, but there are plenty of other minerals that are harmful to our bodies, like lead or mercury. So it’s important to know which minerals you need and which you should avoid. Just taking something that claims to be infused with minerals, like water, may not necessarily be good for you.
Like vitamins, minerals can’t be synthesized within the body—we have to get them from outside sources, like food or supplements. But unlike vitamins, minerals aren’t denatured during food preparation. With rare exceptions, minerals are just as effective after being heated as they are in raw food form. Still, it’s nearly impossible to get all the minerals you need from food alone. Supplementing is a must! However, not all mineral supplements are created equally.
I’ve already told you about processed minerals, which don’t do much good because they can’t be absorbed. Processed vitamins are also bad. These sometimes only include one component of the vitamin. The problem is that in nature, these vitamins are made up of multiple components. For example, many Vitamin C supplements are made of only ascorbic acid. But in nature, the Vitamin C complex contains ascorbic acid, copper, bioflavonoids, and many other factors, all of which make C much more effective. Ascorbic acid on its own not only isn’t effective, but it can also leach copper from your body to become more stable! It’s a no-win situation when it comes to processed supplement.
Avoid buying synthetic supplements for the best health. A good rule of thumb is that if a supplement is sold in pharmacies or is made by pharmaceutical companies, it is most likely overly processed. This is not always the case, but the vast majority of commercially available supplements are bad for you. The cheapest products are generally not good; many cannot be absorbed into your body and contain harmful fillers that can be very toxic. When it comes to your health, it’s worth it to pay a little bit more to get a product that will do you good.
A very good way to find natural supplements is to visit an herbologist. An herbologist will recommend blends of herbs for you to take to eliminate toxins from your body. He or she might provide you with tablet supplements, but your herbologist will also tell you about plants to eat that can provide you with nutrition. Herbal supplements can give all the vitamins and minerals you need for every organ system in your body. For example, regularly eating broccoli will provide you with just about every nutrient your body needs to stay healthy!
An excerpt from Dr. Kim’s book Nine Secrets of Health
Vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients, antioxidants…there’s a lot of stuff that needs to go into your body! So far, you’ve realized that you have to take supplements of essential nutrients and eat colorful foods to stay healthy. But all of these nutrients won’t help if you can’t break them down through digestion. Therefore, more supplements are required—hydrochloric acid and digestive enzymes. Specifically, you need to make sure your body has the pancreatic enzymes necessary for splitting apart foods: lipase, protease, and amylase.
Probiotics are also important to digestive health, and they can be found in fermented foods like sauerkraut, soy sauce, Kimchi, and organic yogurt. Probiotics are “friendly” bacteria that live in your intestines. They help you break down and absorb the food you eat. You have more than 100 trillion bacteria in your intestines alone, and it’s important that you have plenty of good strains available to properly balance your system. A strong army of friendly bacteria can contribute to your health by strengthening your immune system, helping with digestion, removing toxins from your system, and even creating B vitamins.
You should always try to supplement probiotics, but getting good bacteria into your body is especially important when you are stressed, have had antibiotic treatments, are on estrogen, or have done lots of traveling. In these situations, your body’s balance of bacteria may be off kilter, so regular supplements are needed. Also, anyone over the age of 50 should supplement probiotics regularly. Although there are hundreds of strains of good probiotics, Lactobacillus acidophilus and Bifidobacterium are the most common kinds available. Try to supplement with at least 10 billion living cells of these strains daily. Most probiotic supplement products meet this requirement.
