Supplementing

Whassup!!!

A nutritious diet is absolutely essential to prevent or recover from a failure of The Great Assumption. But deficiencies can happen even on a healthy diet. Fortunately modern health science has produced a wide array of supplements to fill many nutrient gaps.

When I say supplements I am talking about herbs, herbal extracts, vitamins, minerals, enzymes, antioxidants and more.

Here is a survey of all the different supplements I use, their purposes and how I use them. I encourage all readers to do their own research and analysis to determine the best supplements to use.

I have used and endorse the products and companies I list here but I am not collecting any income by doing so.

Strategy

Healthy Diet

The best way to get nourishment is to eat a healthy diet. But I still need supplements to make up the nutritional deficiencies in the Safe Space Diet due to its restricted intake of foods with biogenic amines and oxalate.

Cronometer

The best way to figure out your particular nutritional needs is by using an app like Cronometer. Then you can make more accurate decisions on how to supplement for nutrition.

• https://cronometer.com/

I find that day to day I am usually deficient in certain vitamins and minerals so I regularly supplement them regardless of what I eat.

Not A Cure

Some supplements actually make me feel better but to be clear: none of the supplements I list here are a cure for the symptoms I associate with MTMDTI. I still have to maintain the Safe Space Diet in order to keep the MTMDTI in check. But these supplements do provide nourishment and are helpful to promote healing post failure of The Great Assumption.

Organization

I use a few different techniques to organize and manage the consumption of all these different supplements to make sure I take the right one at the right time. Some I take between meals, some not.

Caution

Some supplements can exacerbate MTMDTI because they themselves have inflammatory ingredients.

First Time Use

All these supplements are safe to use but it is wise to be cautious the first time one is taken. I do not take more than one new supplement at a time until I am confident it is not causing any problems. Any of these supplements can cause

Basic Nutrition

Recommended Dietary Allowances

Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs) are the levels of intake of essential nutrients that, on the basis of scientific knowledge, are judged by the Food and Nutrition Board to be adequate to meet the known nutrient needs of practically all healthy persons.

Although I am extremely critical of the medical industry for the failure of The Great Assumption I do trust for the most part their analysis that resulted in the RDAs for nutrition.

The Safe Space Diet is nutritious and useful to reduce the inflammation caused by biogenic amines and oxalate but it is hard to get all the nutrients you need because it is so narrow. Using Cronometer I am able to precisely supplement the vitamins and minerals I need to meet my RDAs.

B vitamins

There are several B vitamins. I take half a B-50 complex daily tablet. This is one of supplements that actually makes you feel better and more energized.

Vitamin D

Unless you get a fair amount of sun on bare skin on a daily basis or take a vitamin D supplement you are probably vitamin D deficient. Humans are designed to produce vitamin D when the sun shines on their skin. And the RDA for vitamin D is waaayyyyy low compared to what our bodies naturally produce or what is generally recommended these days as a healthier dose of vitamin D. The RDA is 600 IU. 5000 IU is the newer dosage recommendation.

Taking vitamin D actually makes me feel better and gives me more energy.

Minerals

I need to bump up my intake of several minerals to meet RDA.

Bamboo and horse tail, for silica

Calcium

Copper

Kelp, for iodide

Iron

Magnesium

Potassium, really hard for me to get enough of

Zinc

For Digestion

Our food gets mixed with acids and enzymes in our stomach to breakdown nutrients into compounds that are small enough to assimilate. This acid crucible helps eliminate pathogenic bacteria that ride in on our food while many of the beneficial probiotic microbes that we eat can tolerate the low ph.

As gut health degrades due to a variety of factors it may help to take digestive supplements. I only take one enzyme and maybe one acid supplement per meal but I use different enzymes, for the purpose of diversity, with different meals.

Betaine HCl

This is the acid part of the digestion equation. It is a form of hydrochloric acid that helps breakdown protein and minerals. There are many brands available. Be sure and follow the easy test protocol to determine the dosage:

https://healthygut.com/how-to-supplement-with-betaine-hcl-for-low-stomach-acid/

I take betaine HCl with every big protein meal.

Enzymes

Taken with food, usually at the start of a meal, enzymes aid digestion.

• Country Life Maxi-Zyme - a good all purpose digestive enzyme.

• Now Super Enzymes - a good all purpose digestive enzyme that includes betaine HCl.

Ox Bile

• Yummmy!! Ox bile! Sounds gross but it helps digest fats and better utilize fat-soluble vitamins.

Sources

I get supplements from different sources based primarily on availability and prices:

• Amazon, www.amazon.com

Amazon usually has what I need at a reasonable price.

• Swanson, www.swansonvitamins.com

Swanson has an amazing array of products, their own and other manufacturers, and excellent prices.

Life Extension, Now and Seeking Health products are available from Amazon and Swanson or direct from their own websites.

• Life Extension, www.lifeextension.com

• Now Foods, www.nowfoods.com

• Seeking Health, www.seekinghealth.com