Cellular Nutrition

Cellular nutrition is necessary for the body to function at its highest level. If we eat something nutritious, that’s good, but it won’t always be delivered to the cells with efficiency. It can be a complicated process as certain nutrients are needed, often in certain combinations, meaning a particular nutrient may be more effective if with another particular nutrient and so on. This may have been easier centuries ago before food was so heavily processed and fruits and vegetables picked too early in order to get to the markets, stripping them of their highest nutritional value. A time when chemicals, growth hormones and human fertilizer wasn’t put on our food. Yet the fact remains, whether you are wanting to be healthier or maybe get to a healthy weight, it is critical to supply your body with good cellular nutrition.

How do we get good cellular nutrition then? It isn’t easy to do in our present society. You have to have a pretty strict plan and be committed to it, then add appropriate supplements, but what supplements? Dr. Strand’s article, as below and in the article on RDA’s (recommended daily allowance), explains what supplement regimen he recommends. He explains why he started specializing in nutritional medicine and preventative medicine as he was never taught in medical school about nutrition. His video along with explaining cellular nutrition and its importance, he explains that he was taught to look at everything from a illness point of view, not a preventative point of view.

Cellular Nutrition By Dr. Strand

We have no choice but to live in our present environment. Our bodies are affronted daily by excessive production of free radicals caused by our polluted environment, stressful lifestyles, and over-medicated society. Though we can certainly reduce the amount of free radicals our bodies produce by: not smoking, decreasing stress levels, and avoiding toxic chemicals, most of our bodies are still unable to fight the overwhelming daily attack on the natural defense system. Remember balance is the key–we need enough antioxidants available to neutralize the free radicals produced.

Over the past 50 years, nutritional medicine and supplementation has focused on replenishing a nutritional deficiency. Countless hours and dollars have been spent trying to determine exactly which nutrients our bodies are depleted of. Blood tests, urine tests, hair samples, muscle testing, and more have been conducted in an attempt to determine which nutrients we need to supplement. However, we have been aiming at the wrong target. The presenting problem is not a nutritional deficiency, but rather, underlying oxidative stress. Oxidative stress has now been shown beyond any shadow of doubt via medical research to be the root cause of over 70 chronic degenerative diseases. Diseases like heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes, arthritis, Alzheimer’s dementia, macular degeneration, lupus, MS, and the list goes on and on.

Because oxidative stress is our concern rather than specific nutritional deficiencies, we must determine what is the best approach to preventing or controlling oxidative stress. This is accomplished by bolstering one’s natural defenses through cellular nutrition.

Cellular nutrition is simply providing ALL nutrients to the cell at optimal levels. This allows the cell to determine what it actually does and does not need. I don’t have to worry about determining which nutrients the cell is deficient in. I simply provide all of the important nutrients at optimal levels–those levels shown to provide a health benefit in the medical literature. Any nutritional deficiencies will be automatically corrected over the next few months by this approach and all the other vital nutrients will be brought up to their optimal levels as well.

Cellular nutrition is providing the body with all the antioxidants along with the supporting B vitamins and antioxidant minerals at optimal levels. This is “preventive medicine” at its best because we can literally attack the disease process at its core by preventing oxidative stress from occurring.

You may be wondering if we can control oxidative stress by simply improving our diet and eating more fruits and vegetables. This is definitely a good start. By simply eating 7 to 9 servings of fruits and vegetables each day you can decrease the risk of heart attack, stroke, Alzheimer’s dementia, and cancer, two to three fold. We certainly want to supplement a good diet—not a bad diet. However, even if you eat a great diet you can barely obtain the RDA level of all essential nutrients. Medical studies have shown that less than 1% of the American population accomplishes this on a consistent basis.

One Way To Simplify Cellular Nutrition

Cellular nutrition can be simplified with Herbalife’s products, particularly their Healthy Meal replacement shake.

Start with the core cellular nutrition as shown in the center of this diagram; called the Quickstart package, then you can add what you need from targeted areas as appropriate.

This nutritional shake, which actually tastes good, provides approximately 2,000 calories worth of perfectly blended nutrients and antioxidants, all under 200 calories. Many people use the shakes to ensure they are getting good cellular nutrition and improve their health. In addition, many of these people use them to lose weight also and to maintain a healthy weight. Herbalife doesn’t claim to diagnose, cure, prevent or treat any health or medical condition, but the cellular nutrition is so good, that many people see a dramatic improvement in their health because the supply of cellular nutrition helps their body to work more efficiently. Dr. Strand has further recommendations of higher amounts of particular supplements if you are dealing with one of the many degenerative diseases effected by oxidative stress. Irregardless, it is difficult to get adequate cellular nutrition and some action is needed to improve cellular nutrition consumption.

https://www.raystrand.com/cellular-nutrition.asp