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There are many types of food allergies, any of which can be a very serious issue with dangerous consequences if not addressed properly. In the world of natural healing this is accomplished not just by simply eliminating from your diet what is causing the allergic reaction, especially since the cause may not be immediately known, but also by incorporating key nutrients into your diet. There have been many books written on this subject, whether you’re healing the body naturally or using them in combination with an Rx; supplements play a key role.

Front and center in the war from within is your immune system. It’s what fights off disease, but when weakened it can be an open door to many unwanted guests. Certain vitamins and minerals are used to help boost the body’s immune system. This is crucial since your immune system is already being taxed simply dealing with an allergic reaction. Some of the key players used to increase immune function within the body are Vitamins A, C, D, E, as well as Zinc.

Certain flavonoids such as Quercitin are used for their ability to lessen the severity of the body’s reaction to allergens. It’s their ability to reduce any and all inflammatory response caused by the allergen, as well as their antioxidant affect that makes flavonoids such an important nutrient.

Lets not forget about proper digestion when it comes to allergies. When the stomach lacks what it needs to properly break down foods during digestion, this undigested food can enter the blood stream causing your immune system to treat it as foreign bodies, resulting in an allergic reaction. There are many supplements used in aiding digestion, whether it’s enzymes such as bromelain, or probiotics (the good bacteria in your stomach).

Whatever the allergy there are many reasons to turn to supplements, but certain allergies can make taking supplements a bit tricky. Take soy for instance. If you suffer from a soy allergy you probably already know soy is in most all processed prepackaged foods, but it’s also important to be vigilant when taking supplements. This is primarily due to the incorporation of vitamin E in the form of mixed tocopherals, which are usually derived from soybeans. Now although I’ve been told that with the process used, there should be no soy remaining in the end product, I consistently have a reaction when vitamin E (soy) is on the label. I have seen soy in one form or another in many popular supplements; omega-3 (especially liquid form), all multivitamins, Vitamin D, and many of the probiotics on the market.

So what to do? In my case I have been able to work around this by maintaining a healthy diet first and foremost, as well as scrutinizing all labels and not just the basic ingredients; all product labeling! I have found allergy free supplements for some of the culprits mentioned above, but others I have not. I am a firm believer though, that nothing beats a healthy diet. Whole foods can be your best source of most all nutrients necessary for optimal health. Although I do take supplements, I always consult an expert in the field of natural healing. This way I get that extra boost of what my body really needs, rather than just walking blindly through my local health food store.

mike
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Instead of buying the Acai that has been all over the news, and internet, I bought an Acai supplement from Walmart. It is just an over the counter antioxidant. It is 500mg Acai. So far, I have been taking 2 in the morning and was wondering if there was another way I should take it? One in the morning and before I got to bed?
When should I take them because I must take 2 a day. Thank you.

Generally, it’s best when taken by the bottle’s recommendations whether that be 1 twice a day or 2 once a day.

That being said, either one of those would still be around the same benefits for something like Acai, but some people do get some energy from it so you might possibly have some trouble taking it right before bed or something. Try out a couple different ways and see which way you like best and which works best for you… two in the morning would be perfectly fine if you’d like. Good luck and I hope I helped!

I am a vegetarian because I care about animal suffering, however I also care about the environment and my health. Lately, I have been drinking a bottle vitamin water everyday – mainly the XXX flavor which means triple antioxidants. Vitamin Water of course contains many vitamins including B12. If I drink this consistently everyday, would this be a good alternative to regular vegetarian vitamins?

You should not drink that stuff. It’s a scam!

Vitamin Water – The Biggest Scam

What is most wrong and downright sinister about vitamin-enriched waters is how especially deceptive they are.

At least with Diet Coke Plus, the average health conscious consumer might make the connection that if “Diet Coke” is unhealthy, anything close to it can’t be that much better.

Not so with vitamin water. Everyone knows that you can’t outdo water for a healthy beverage, and vitamins and minerals added to water make it sound like a panacea for good health.

Plenty of consumers are falling for it – a new “vitamin enriched” brand of water seems to be hitting the shelves every day.

Let’s take a good look at the first three ingredients of one of the most popular ones, Glaceau Vitamin Water -which was bought by the Coca Cola Company, by the way:

* Distilled, deionized, and/or reverse osmosis water: this is water that has had any and all natural minerals removed from it, and can create a highly acidic condition in your body, leading to severe mineral deficiencies, and even heartbeat irregularities2. The addition of minerals and vitamins of inferior quality does not counter-effect the damage.
* Crystalline Fructose: This is just another name for high-fructose corn syrup, a low quality, cheap, and extremely dangerous sweetener linked to severe health issues including obesity, and fatty liver disease. A new commercial on TV has a couple lying on the grass in a park. The young woman is trying to give her young man a popsicle. He asks her if she is poisoning him. Her answer is ridiculous. Basically she cons him by saying that fructose is as good as sugar and fructose is made from corn. How bad can that be? He falls for it but please, don’t you.
* Cane Sugar: More processed sugar. Since when do you need processed sugar to get your vitamins? Not only does sugar feed cancer, viruses and the pathogenic yeast, candida,that all help quickly age and even kill you, it has many other undisputed health hazards.

In addition to these top three ingredients, Vitamin Water also lists:

* Citric Acid: Contrary to common belief, the citric acid found in so many processed foods today is not from citrus fruits at all. In fact, it’s a food additive and preservative usually produced from corn, and it can cause serious reactions in MSG sensitive people3. People with yeast infections are very sensitive to it and should absolutely avoid it. And who doesn’t have a yeast infection today?
* “Natural” Flavor: The food industry knows you like the sound of “natural” better than “artificial”. Unfortunately, whenever you see “natural flavor” on a food label it means there is some lab processing involved, which makes the distinction between “natural” and “artificial” suspect.

Once again, the addition of synthetic vitamins and minerals to what is essentially sugary, or artificially sweetened water, is not a recipe for good health.

Thousand of years ago, these berries were used for medicinal purposes by the natives in that place. These indigenous people of the Amazon jungle discovered these fruits for curing various ailments of their people. The antioxidant properties and natural fat dissolver of acai berries put them on the map as another natural food supplement to help people with weight problems. When eaten fresh, they reduce the bad cholesterol in your blood. Their nutritive values were known to these tribes and they found out that when used for medicinal purposes, they build the immune system to fight infection. The heart is protected and they act as nature’s Viagra which can control prostate enlargement.

These berries were made into wine that was mineral-laden. Schistosomosis was eradicated. This disease is transmitted by snails to humans. There are other health problems that can be controlled or cured like the production of antibiotics to help fight common infections.

Normally, these berries were hand-picked while the tribesmen would climb up the tree and cut the branches filled with acai berries. Upon discovery of their benefits to the body, these berries are now mass produced and transported immediately because of their 24-hour life span. Gathered in baskets and loaded onto boats after picking, they would have to be transported overnight. Researchers realized the great importance of these fruits in the health of the modern world. Foods rich in fat have made you captive of your own devise. Heart attacks, strokes, obesity and other diseases can now be attended to primarily by these curative berries.

Acai berries, popularly known as miracle fruits, can help in the prevention of cancer. As antioxidants, they flush out toxins from your body without harming its natural immune system. To promote good health even among the young, they have been introduced into other food products like bars and health snacks sold at gyms and spas. They have also been seen as commercially viable food supplements for boosting your libido and energy level and at the same time decreasing your appetite. This decrease in food craving has led to their viability as a weight loss product.

The nutrients you can secrete from these berries consist of who’s who in the world of natural food supplements. Fatty acids lower your bad cholesterol level. Calcium, Vitamin E and phosphorus have high concentrations of polyphenols for detoxification. These are edible fruits which can be used in wines, liqueurs, as flavorings, colourants and juice. They appeal to the most sophisticated palate because their taste like red wine. They can be mixed with other fruits and fruit juices in a smoothie making them popular in juice bars. Aside from losing weight, health benefits like blood clot prevention, improved circulation and energy booster, are yours for the taking.

Muneeb Ahmed
http://www.articlesbase.com/supplements-and-vitamins-articles/acai-berries-as-natural-food-supplement-662309.html

I manufacture a new dietary supplement, one of the most powerful antioxidant based on research and analytics

Go to Nuskin and work with them.

Their products are usually aimed at increasing anti oxidant levels. They might be interested.

Since they are a network marketing company, you just need to be the supplier and they will do the sales and marketing for you.

However, they have their own research facilities and factories I think and I am not sure if they are willing to work with third parties. Well, never try never know.

If you can send me more info about your supplements, I can help you ask around if anyone is interested to retail your products.

This is a difficult question. How many supplements would equal a pomegranate, for instance? Are the supplements watered down to the point one would need to take a huge amount several times a day?

No, for three reasons.

First of all, fruit and vegetables contain other nutrients that pills don’t provide, like fibres and vitamins.

Second, a vitamin is not a vitamin. Artificially produced vitamins and nutrients are often absorbed less efficiently into the body; more of these passes through than with the natural form.

Lastly, taking anti-oxidants tells the cells in your body to make less of their own anti-oxidants. So you have a perfect defense mechanism against free radicals, but you’re telling it to work less by taking these pills.

I just bought ALA from HerbMart and decided to do some further research on it and discovered that it could possibly be dangerous to take because it mobilizes mercury to other parts of the body. Is there any way around this or should I just completely avoid the supplement. I was planning on using it in combination with Acetyl-L-Carintine.

I think you are very wise to avoid taking supplements unless you are sure they are safe, and that they have a decent chance of being effective.

There are a few things you should consider before taking supplements: There was a recent article in U.S. News & World Report about medicines and supplements sold in the United States. The article stated that the active ingredients of all sorts of medicines (prescription, over-the-counter, and supplements) are often manufactured abroad, but the label may not indicate this. Of course the concern is greatest when the components of the item are from China. This is why you need to know your manufacturer. Feel free to call or write to ask them where the components of their supplement come from. Also know your source. Does the store you buy from do its own research and stand behind the products it sells? Don’t buy based on price alone. Sometimes the very same supplement is sold under different labels and there is no difference except for the markup. Other times, it’s the distributor’s guarantee that you are paying for. That guarantee may be worth the difference in price.

It is a good idea to check with mainstream newsletters on the safety of supplements. I really like to see what the Linus Pauling Institute recommends, and also to consult other sources such as Berkeley Wellness Letter, Harvard Health Letter, and Andrew Weil. LPI’s newsletter is free, and they only ask for a charitable contribution once in a while (not obtrusively, either).

Good luck, and let us know what you decide. This may turn out to be an excellent supplement.

Ive read a lot of good things about zinc clearing up acne so ive decided to try it, but ive also found out that another important factor that causes acne is your liver. zinc is supposed to help the hormone half, and liver strength is supposed to clear excess blood toxins that cause the other half. so can zinc help my liver strengthen? what can? can green tea antioxidant supplements help?

i can’t answer any of those questions but you would be well advised to supplement your zinc with copper, which is used up in digesting zinc -otherwise, you will deplete your stores of copper, which can actually cause more (and sometimes the same) problems.

a natural, good source of both zinc and copper is cashews. i know my mood lifts dramatically the day after i eat a lot of these nuts… actually, maybe i shouldn’t be telling you this; those nuts are expensive enough as it is!

We all know about Antioxidants. And when we refer to antioxidants, we are generally talking about antioxidants in the form of nutritional supplements and vitamins, but not about Antioxidant skin care products. But you would be amazed to know that antioxidant skin care is in fact your key to get glowing young skin.

So, what is the role antioxidants play in your body? In brief, antioxidants counter the free radicals in the body which are responsible for causing damage to our skin cells and tissues. In fact, we show the signs of aging on our skin much before it should happen because of the continuous damage that these free radicals cause.

That’s the reason why Antioxidant skin care products gain so much importance in today’s environment. So, if you want to slow down or reverse the signs of skin aging, then you should take a serious look at the antioxidant skin care alternatives available.

Here are some of the natural ingredients that have shown tremendous positive result in clinical trials over time, you might want to look for these in your antioxidant skin care products.

1) Cynergy TK – This is a natural ingredient that has been pioneered in New Zealand. The most amazing potential of Cynergy TK is that it helps your body in naturally producing more collagen and elastin on its own. As you know that collagen and elastin are the two skin proteins that give us a firm, supple and elastic skin.

Cynergy TK is also rich in functional keratin. Keratin is also a skin protein which works together with collagen and elastin to maintain skin health and youth. The funtional form of keratin makes it very easily absorbable by our body.

Cynergy TK also has also shown to work effectively as a powerful antioxidant when it is a part of antioxidant skin care products. It neutralizes the free radicals before they are able to cause any damage to the skin tissues. Apart from this, Cynergy TK has also shown great improvement in skin moisture retention and skin elasticity.

2) Nano- Lipobelle H EQ10 – This is another amazing natural substance. It is the “nano emulsion” form of Coenzyme Q10. You must have heard of Coenzyme Q10, it is a very popular nutritional supplement as well as a powerful antioxidant. Now, the nano version of Coenzyme Q10 makes it very potent and effective, because it can penetrate seven layers deep into the skin!

And in this way , Nano- Lipobelle H EQ10 works very powerfully from deep within and gives protection to skin youth from its fatal enemies like free radicals, aging, toxins and lack of vital proteins.

All these powerful features make it an indispensable part of any antioxidant skin care product which claims to be highly effective.

You can thus see, what a powerful role such natural ingredients can play in effective antioxidant skin care products in giving you vibrant and healthy skin even in a mature age.

I have covered an extensive research on my website on such potent and natural substances which have a proven scientific role as powerful antioxidants.

Vijay Raisinghani
http://www.articlesbase.com/skin-care-articles/antioxidant-skin-care-products-your-secret-key-to-get-glowing-young-skin-718282.html

I heard that antioxidant supplements don’t really work and that omega 3 supplements probably do.

Hello i dont know about studies but ive been taking Vit C and Zinc tablets now for the past 2 years. Before that I was the sort of person who caught everone elses colds wether it was summer or winter. Since taking these I can honestly say ive only had one cold and it only lasted 3 days and wasnt as bad as everyone elses.