Better Health Through Honest Dialogue
Annemarie Colbin, PhD and Lawrence Palevsky, MD, discuss vitamins, the way they are administered in our culture, and their effects on our health.
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This is a topic of interest to me; I seem unable to make up my mind about added vitamins.
Lawrence, you said that you use vitamins for children as medicine. That means you would have had to test those children with their symptoms first, because a symptom can have all kinds of causes, not just the popular “bleeding gums = vitamin C deficiency” situation. There can be other things going on (which you of course know).
I do not know about vitamins, but as far as minerals go, I’d like to know just how you measure your patients’ mineral levels. My understanding (probably lacking) is that the blood level can be just fine, but the person can still be deficient, because there is either not enough of the mineral to carry out the body’s functions, OR the mineral is there in the body, but not getting to where it is needed. One example would be depositing of calcium in the soft tissues, but I am sure you know of others.
I would appreciate your comments and an answer to my question. Thank you kindly. PS. There are also something called “whole food vitamins” and am not sure what to make of this.