You are on a vegetarian diet, living the Hippocrates Health Institute lifestyle…
…are you getting all you need?
In the area of vegetarian diet, are you getting all the nutrition you need if you are eating 80% raw organic vegetables and growing sprouts?
Almost everyone has a vitamin b12 deficiency, and this includes meat eaters who think they are getting plenty of b12.
Historically, the vitamin b12 you need was produced by your body, but not anymore. We have weakened our bodies over several generations with our modern lifestyle.
This is one of the key supplements even for those on the best raw foods vegetarian diet. I take vitamin b12 daily along with additional digestive enzymes. Perhaps if I had been on a raw foods diet most of my life, I wouldn’t need the digestive and metabolic enzymes (also called systemic enzymes -- they are the same thing).
I’ve heard the enzyme account in our bodies compared to a bank account, and if we’ve made many withdrawals over the years, we need to make additional deposits even beyond the food we eat.
I take both digestive enzymes and metabolic enzymes everyday. You can purchase them at Hippocrates supplements.
Here’s something I learned: when the body finds there are insufficient digestive enzymes to handle the load, what does it do?
The incoming food has to be digested, so it converts systemic enzymes (these are the blue-collar workers that do all the cleaning and repair work) into digestive enzymes, thus using extra energy for the conversion and leaving you with less repair workers to heal you.
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