Either Eat It or Swallow It

My Grandma was a very wise woman! I can remember her sitting at the kitchen table with grapefruit, juice and either oatmeal or cereal. But then she would gather around her all these bottles of vitamins. She would explain to me how I needed to take vitamins like her. Of course I didn't then, nor did I when my mom would tell me as a young woman to. However....I do now!

What might have been if I had only listened to such wisdom? What would my body be like now? Oh and guess what? My own kids hear me telling them the same things "take your vitamins".

I did the whole buy 'em at GNC, Walgreens, Walmart or Target. That was until I realized they are not all created the same! I would take vitamins and "feel" nothing. No tangible changes. That is until I found Life Extension (LEF).

(LEF) makes a difference, I see and feel changes - my whole family does. There really is a HUGE quality, quantity, ingredients, difference!

What I have come to realize is this - Either I better eat what my body is "telling" me it needs (or doesn't need). Or I had better suck it up and swallow all the vitamins, minerals, & herbs that my body is craving. Because if I don't my body will lack necessary nutrients and will "show" me it is, thru terrible symptoms and diseases.

For instance I hate peas, hate 'em won't go near 'em, the smell makes me want to vomit! I don't care if they are Garden, Snow, Green, or Snap - will NOT TOUCH 'EM!! But peas are Legumes and sources of 8 vitamins & 7 minerals. Vitamins B1, B6, B2, C, K1 and Iron just to name a few. So if I won't eat them - and I won't, I am "starving" my body of those particular nutrients & vitamins. Now I know that I actually eat other foods that will give me those vitamins & minerals. But what if I didn't? Well then I would be asking for symptoms and even diseases from that lack.

My mom for instance (love you mom) - will not eat broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, kale, brussels sprouts. These are all "Cruciferous Vegetables". They are VITAL for breaking down carcinogens, and neutralizing "dangerous breakdown products of estrogen that promote cancer growth" Read more- Life Extension Oct 2009 Magazine, Pg 79-80.  So what mom needs to be taking to replace the lack of eating "Cruciferous Vegetables is indole-3-carbinol (I3C) (You do mom).

That way when estrogen follows 1 of 2 metabolic pathways converting to either the bad "16-alpha-hydroxyestrone" (breast & other cancer risk increased) or the good "2-hydroxyestrone" (breast & other cancer risk decreased) the "Cruciferous Vegetables" or supplement (I3C) are "effective in shifting estrogen metabolism to the more beneficial pathway thus reducing levels of toxic "16-alpha-hydroxyestrone" and increasing levels of "2-hydroxyestrone".  Read more- Life Extension Oct 2009 Magazine, Pg 79-80 Thereby reducing the risk of getting breast cancer.

If you are as stubborn as I am on some foods (aren't we all?) then for goodness sake at the very least - take supplements in place of them.

So....Eat Your Veggies or Swallow Supplements!! -Just Do It!