YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT!

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Your moods, chemicals in your body, body functions, and illness all are a contributing factor in what we eat! So, how do you determine a GOOD multi vitamin and mineral supplement?

Supplement:
Vitamin E (as d-alpha locopheryl succinate)
Vitamin A (as retinyl palmitate & as beta carotene)
Vitamin C (as ascorbic acid)
Vitamin D (as cholecalciferol)
Thiamin (Vitamin B1)
Riboflavin (vitamin B2)
Niacin (as nicotinamide & as nicotinic acid)
Vitamin B6 (as pyridoxine HCL)
Folic Acid
Vitamin B12 (as cyanocobalamin)
Biotin
Pantothenic Acid (as calcium pantothenate)
Calcium (as amino acid chelate)
Iron (as amino acid chelate)
Magnesium (as aspartate)
Zinc (as amino acid chelate)
Copper (as amino acid chelate)
Manganese (as amino acid chelate)
Chromium (as amino acid chelate)
Molybdenum (as sodium molybdate)
Potassium (as aspartate)

Proprietary Blend:
Cysteine Hydrochloride
Choline Biartrate
Inositol
Racemethionine
Aminobenzoic Acid
Bioflavonoids
Hawthorne (fruit)
Lime Tree (flower)
Garlic (bulb)
Kelp

Other:
Povidone
Maltodextrin
Iron Oxide
Macrogol
Hypromellose
Alginic Acid
Microcrystalline Cellulose
Carnauba Wax
Calcium Hydrogen Phosphate
Soy Polysaccaride
Silica
Magnesium Stearate

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- Vitamin B-1(thiamine): loss of appetite, depression, irritability,
memory loss, sensitivity to noise, inability to concentrate,
fatigue, reduced attention span.

- Vitamin B-3 (niacin): insomnia, nervousness, confusion, depression,
hallucination, loss of memory

- Vitamin B-6: anxiety, depression, irritability, insomnia

- Pantothenic acid: depression, inability to tolerate stress

- Vitamin B-12 (cobalamine): difficulty concentrating and
remembering,
stuporous depression, severe agitation, hallucinations, manic
behavior

- Folic acid: irritabiity, weakness, apathy, hostility, anemia

- Vitamin C: increased stress and fatigue

_ Vitamin E: depression, lethargy

- Potassium: nervousness, irritability, mental disorientation

- Magnesium: paranoid psychosis

- Calcium: anxiety, neurosis, fatigue, insomnia, tension

- Zinc: anemia, poor mental function

- Iron: depression, lethargy, poor concentration, irritability,
decreased attention span, personality changes

- Essential fatty acid: anxiety, irritability, insomnia

The chemical makeup of the brain requires an ample and constant
supply of essential nutrients. Vitamins, amino acids, fatty acids,
and enyzymes are all interrelated, each dependent on the others for
absorption and utilization; moreover, a shortage of one vital
element can render all the others less effective. That is why nutritionists
urge people to eat a variety of nutrient-dense foods.

NO WONDCER WE HAVE SO MANY OF US IN A BRAIN FOG!!!

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I wanted to add my two cents. ANY vitamin you take should dissolve in water within a short time period. If it doesn't, it will probably not dissolve in your digestive system and it would come out the other end still whole! LOL!!! So, what good what that do your body, NOTHING!

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From the USB
Even though soy isoflavones exhibit very weak activity (1/100 to
1/100,000
the potency of endogenous estrogen) in women consuming
soyfoods, blood
levels of isoflavones can be 1,000 times higher than
endogenously produced
estrogen levels.


>From Natural Health Magazine
Does Soy Have a DARK SIDE?
Author/s: Sally Eauclaire Osborne
Issue: March, 1999

Does Soy Cause Hormone Havoc?

The plant estrogens (phytoestrogens) found in soy, including isoflavones,
resemble the natural estrogens in our body. This could be why soy consumption promises relief from menopausalsymptoms, among other benefits. Yet critics of soy say these isoflavones could cause two specific
problems.

a few researchers question if isoflavones could interfere with the hormonal
and sexual development of children. Cliff Irvine, D.Sc., a reproductive
endocrinologist at Lincoln University in Canterbury, New Zealand, studied the isoflavone levels in soy infant foods and found that the daily recommended intake of soy formula provides 3 mg of isoflavones per kilogram
of body weight--a level he says is more than four times the level found to change reproductive hormones in women. His findings were published in Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine in March
1998.

ISOFLAVONE a plant-based estrogen (also called
phytoestrogen) thatinterrupts the function of hormonal estrogen. Two well-known isoflavones are daidzein and genistein.

Does Soy Disrupt the Thyroid?

The thyroid gland in the front of the neck secretes thyroid hormones and
controls metabolism. Several scientists have linked soy consumption to suppressed thyroid function, including hypothyroidism (in which
the gland produces not enough hormones). Researchers at the North Shore University
Hospital-Cornell University Medical College in Manhasset, N.Y.,
found that children with autoimmune thyroid disease had consumed
significantly more soy-based milk formulas than had their healthy siblings and other healthy
children. These findings were published in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition in 1990. One year later, a 1991 Japanese study
published in the Japanese journal Nippon Naibunpi gakkai Zasshi showed that soybeans could trigger goiters (an enlargement of the thyroid) and hypothyroidism. Half of the 17 healthy adult participants who ate 30 g of
pickled roasted soybeans a day for three months developed a small goiter and/or experienced hypothyroidism. One month after the study
was completed, all thyroids had returned to normal size and hypothyroidism symptoms such as
constipation and fatigue had disappeared.

Some experts, however, believe that only certain people are apt to develop
hypothyroidism from eating soy. "For soy to actually cause hypothyroidism, you'd have to be bordering on hypothyroidism to begin with,"
says naturopath Martin Milner, N.D., president of the Center for Natural Medicine in Portland, Ore., and developer of a new treatment for
hypothyroidism.

Does Soy Prevent the Absorption of Minerals?
The bran or hulls of seeds, found in beans,grains, nuts, and other plant foods, contain phytates (or phytic acids). These phytates bind to essential minerals such as calcium, iron, and zinc in the digestive tract
and prevent them from being absorbed

Does Soy Contain Digestion Blockers?
Some researchers consider soy difficult to digest because it inhibits the functioning of the pancreatic enzyme called trypsin. The body
needs trypsin to properly digest protein. But all legumes have substances
called trypsin inhibitors that interfere with the work of this enzyme. (Soy is thought to
have more of these inhibitors than other beans.) When there is less trypsin, more undigested and partially digested protein molecules move through thedigestive tract.

Article from No-Soy
Soybeans have a component which stimulates estrogen production (in both men and women) and most doctors don't recommend using estrogen
in any form for people with a family history of breast cancer or fibroid tumors. A
Report released this June states that women who take estrogen for more than ten years have an increased risk of breast cancer. A Yale physician specifically warned us off estrogen way back in the 1970's. Menopause is a poor time, because of the stress, to take soy as an estrogen replacement because the stress can trigger an allergy to soy (as more and more women are writing to us).