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The usual terms to describe the benefits of drugs and supplements
(such as Nutritional Analysis, Minimum Daily
Requirement (MDR), Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) or therapeutic
amount) do not apply to whole food
products (such as oranges, salmon and algae). With drugs and supplements it is the product doing the
work ("healing"). Whole food products operate under a totally different
paradigm. Whole food products balance (or normalize) the body and then
the body does the healing, not the product. This is far safer (no
side effects), more complete (symptoms
do not come back when product discontinued) and truly
wholistic in our opinion. Exact dosage recommendations are
actually a dosage deception and gives one a false sense of security. The
American Medical Association and American Cancer Society actually agree
with our holistic philosophy.
Summary
How Benefits Are Measured
Dosage Deception
Differences in Whole Food Products vs. Supplements
American Medical Association and American Cancer Society Recommendations
Nutritional Analysis
Calculations
The benefits of drugs and
supplements are measured in milligrams (or IU) based on allopathic
research
 using
the Cause & Effect principle. In other words, they give you a blue
pill to decrease a blood value or glandular functionality (such as the
thyroid) but give you a red pill to increase the same blood value or
glandular functionality. The Cause is the pill and the Effect is to
either decrease or increase a value (or functionality) based on which
pill. These are usually stated in Minimum Daily
Requirement (MDR), Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) or a therapeutic
amount needed to alleviate ABC symptom or prevent XYZ disease. Since
BioSuperfood/BioPreparation are
NOT supplements but whole food products, their benefits
are measured differently. Therefore, a nutritional analysis listing all
the ingredients and their individual amounts contained in
BioSuperfood/BioPreparation is not relevant.
When scientists seek to determine the exact
dosage of a nutrient needed, they do so in controlled
 studies.
For example, if they wanted to determine the Minimum Daily Requirement (MDR)
or Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) of Vitamin C, they would subject
participants to varying doses of a Vitamin C supplement, while keeping
all other variables (for example, other vitamins, food, medicine) constant.
They would use isolated Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) and most often from a
synthetic source (cheaper and purer). When their analysis comes back
that 75-90 mg. are needed, everyone jumps on the bandwagon and looks for
Vitamin C supplements that contain a minimum of 75 mg. Of course, if a
supplement contains more (for example, 90+ mg), then it must be better
and those that do not contain at least 75 mg. are inferior. Is this
logic and comparison valid?
From our holistic viewpoint, we say NO. The
results of the above study would only be valid if one were to get their
Vitamin C source through the exact isolated Vitamin C supplement (most
likely synthetic) used in the study. Here is why the above dosage
recommendations are an unintended deception. When a doctor (or a
research study) prescribes a certain dosage of a nutrient for a specific
condition or symptom, it is based on allopathic research not holistic
observations or results. The results of the minimum dosage of that
single nutrient (often from a synthetic source) determined in the study,
only apply if one gets their source from an extracted, isolated
supplement and does not apply if the source is a
whole food product
(such as an orange, green pepper or algae). Supplements have high
therapeutic doses of isolated nutrients to cause an effect (and
sometimes bad side effects) in the body. Whole food product have a broad
base of nutrients but in low
amounts that balance the body rather than cause effects
(with no side effects). Whole food product benefits are measured in
results, not milligrams, because it is the body doing the work (not the
product) as a result of being balanced by the whole food. Here are the
basic differences between supplements and whole food products.
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WHOLE FOOD PRODUCTS |
SUPPLEMENTS |
Nourish, energize and
balance
the whole body |
Fill a single deficiency or fulfill a
single purpose |
Do not create a dependency
on the product |
Make the body dependent on
this external supply of nutrition |
Activate the body’s own
natural
ability to heal |
rarely fix the cause of the
original symptom or illness |
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Have no side effects |
Have side effects |
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Modern studies show
the body absorbs and utilizes only 10-25% of
isolated vitamins and supplements it ingests.
(The rest is flushed down the toilet.) When the source is not an isolated vitamin or
supplement but a whole food product, this
absorption and utilization rate increases to
90-95%. The reason is, Nature did not intend for
us to eat isolated vitamins or supplements but
whole foods. Modern research shows Vitamin C
needs rutin, bioflavanoids, Vitamin E, selenium
and zinc to work properly. But what other
complementary vitamins, minerals, amino acids
and enzymes are needed to make Vitamin C work
that scientists have not yet discovered? So,
when one takes an isolated Vitamin C tablet
(pure ascorbic acid) to boost
 their
immune system when one has a cold, the body has
to search out and even rob the rest of the
dietary food and body for these complementary
nutrients to make the supplemental ascorbic acid
work properly. This is why one has to take a
high therapeutic dosage (for example, 2,000-5,000 mg)
of Vitamin C to get results. So, when the
minimum needed is 75-90 mg and one takes a
supplement with a therapeutic dosage of 2,000 mg
of Vitamin C, one gets a false sense of security
that all the Vitamin C is being absorbed and
utilized and all is well in the body.
When a healthcare
practitioner tells you your body needs a
therapeutic dosage of 800 IU of Vitamin E or
2,000 mg of vitamin C, they are talking about
the dosage from an isolated supplement NOT a
whole food product (like
BioSuperfood,
BioPreparation,
Seacure or PSP).
One cannot compare the dosage requirements
determined in a laboratory for an
isolated supplement to consuming whole food
nutrients in the real world. This is like
comparing apples to oranges and asking which is
better. BioSuperfood/ BioPreparation are NOT
supplements, therefore one's previous experience
and results with supplements cannot be used in
comparing BSF/BP. A
paradigm shift must occur in order to be
able to appreciate revolutionary products,
like BioSuperfood and BioPreparation. Drugs and
almost all supplements, consist of extracts and
high concentrations of just active ingredients.
The advantages are quick results and temporary
elimination of symptoms. The disadvantages
are potential
side effects, a
dependency on the product and
never taking care of the original cause of
the symptom or disease. Go to our
whole foods and
Vitamin C web pages for more details on this
new concept.
I proved this to
myself by taking a time-released, megadose 2,000
mg Vitamin C tablet and a whole food Vitamin C
product made from rose hips and acerola cherries
(Vitamin C=350 mg) to my
 chiropractor
when I had a cold or flu. Through nutritional
testing the chiropractor determined the 2,000 mg
supplement would help me recover from the cold
or flu but the 350 mg whole food tablet would do
just as well or better. So, a Vitamin C
supplement of 2,000 mg is not necessarily better
than a whole food product containing 250 mg of
Vitamin C. The same holistic logic can be
applied to the supplemental dosage requirements
for Vitamin B complex, Vitamin E, Vitamin D,
Omega oils, calcium, iron, etc.
So, instead of
comparing dosages in milligrams of supplements
versus whole food products, like BioPreparation
and BioSuperfood, one needs to compare benefits
to determine which is better. Ask yourself the
following questions:
- Did my
symptoms go away and stay away after I
discontinued the (isolated supplement or
whole food product) pill?
- Are there any
potential side effects?
- Can I decrease
the dosage after my body totally heals?
- Is the
original cause of the symptom/disease gone
or did I just suppress the symptoms and just
have it migrate to a different part of my
body?
STOP supplementing the
symptoms and holistically boost up
ALL the body's systems, balance ALL
the glands and organs and experience true
holistic health, not just the absence of
disease. Wake up the body's natural ability to
heal and watch the symptoms disappear. Make
a quantum leap in holistic health and experience
a new paradigm in wellness!
These prestigious
medical sources actually agree with our holistic
philosophy on using whole foods (and whole
food products) rather than supplements.
- To reduce
cancer risk, the best advice presently is to
consume antioxidants through food
sources, rather than supplements.
(“Common Questions About Diet and Cancer,”
American Cancer Society)
- “…there are
insufficient data to justify an
alteration in public health policy from one
that emphasizes food and diet to one that
emphasizes nutrient supplements.
(“Essential Nutrients: Food or Supplements?”
Journal of the American Medical Association,
2005;294:351-358)
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BioPreparation/BioSuperfood
are Nature's vitamin chest in a capsule
(literally containing over
15,000 individual nutrients). Save money, buy fewer
supplements and simplify your life. No doctor or vet
exam is needed, no expensive diagnostic (lab) tests are
done and no health insurance required. BioPreparation
has even
saved the lives of pets when a vet could not
determine why the pet was dying or make an "official"
diagnosis. |
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We cannot possibly list all 15,000+
individual nutrients in the bio-algae concentrates products. For a
detailed list of some of the important single nutrients in a generic 10
grams of
BioPreparation and BioSuperfood microalgae, click the button below to download a
PDF from a sample 10 g. batch:
To calculate the total of each nutrient per capsule of
BioSuperfood or BioPreparation, one must add across all four columns of
each algae species. For example to calculate the total amount of Omega
6–Gamma Linolenic Acid (GLA) essential fatty acid, one adds:
135 mg + 100 mg
+ 0.21 mg = 235.21 mg GLA/10 grams algae
Since each capsule contains 290 milligrams,
there are:
235.21 mg/10
grams X 1.0 gram/1000 mg X 290 milligrams/1 capsule = 6.82109 mg
GLA/capsule
If one takes 6
capsules per day (average adult daily amount), they are getting 40.92654
mg of GLA per day. As you can see, this is not a good comparison to any
prescribed supplemental dosage of GLA. But the body is getting just as
much, if not more
benefits because there are all the essential fatty acids of Omega 3, 6,
9, ALAs (Alpha-Linolenic Acids), DGLA (Dihomogamma-Linolenic Acid), DHA
(Docosahexaenoic acid), in addition to the rare GLA (its gamma linolenic acid
content is similar to early mother's milk) and more fatty acids, not
just GLA and they all are in the proper ratio as dictated by Nature, not
a scientist in a lab. This increases the absorption and utilization of
the small amount of GLA in the microalgae. To see what benefits are
realized by such a seemingly small amount click on
GLA
With nutritional amounts so small, there are no known contraindications
using BioSuperfood/ BioPreparation with any vitamin, herb, supplement,
homeopathic remedy, other holistic products or drug.
If you have any questions about these superfood products, please do not hesitate
to contact us. These are whole food products and DO
NOT act, react or perform like supplements. For a summary flyer on the
above concepts click the
STOP
Supplementing Symptoms button below. For a detailed paper on the
difference between whole food products and supplements, click the
NOT Another Supplement button below for a PDF document.
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Nothing in these suggestions should be construed as being medical advice.
Only a licensed health care professional is qualified to give medical advice.
These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA. This information is not
intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
For any disease or illness, please see you doctor or qualified health
practitioner.
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and your family the health they deserve and the longevity you desire.
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