Article: Cleanses and Vitamins Don't Mix
Cleanses and Vitamins Don't Mix
by: Dr. Janet Starr Hull, Ph.D., CN
http://www.sweetpoison.com/newsletter/
It's best to not take vitamin supplements within 45 minutes
of taking a fiber supplement or detoxification product,
especially when using timed released vitamins and minerals.
The fiber can interfere with the supplements' absorption,
especially those that are oil-soluble, and detoxification
products may remove vitamin supplements along with the
toxins they are eliminating from the body before the body
has a chance to assimilate the nutritional supplements.
In other words, let any fiber cleanse or detoxification
program do it's job before you add supplements required
for a balanced state of wellness.
The best advice is take your multi-vitamin and additional
supplements with your lowest fiber meal. Fiber is great
for moving the contents of your digestive tract along,
but mixing fibers such as psyllium husk or ground flax
seed with other supplements, including vitamins, minerals,
and herbs, will dispose of them before they have a chance
to be digested and assimilated within the body. The same
principle applies to detoxification components.
I recommend taking your natural vitamin and mineral
supplements with breakfast or early in the day, and taking
fibersupplements later in the day or before bed. This
provides the body with needed fuel to operate efficiently
during the daytime hours. Then, stop ingesting all food
substances that require digestion around 6:00 to 7:00 P.M.
so to allow the body to repair and restore the body
systems and respective organs, and to properly cleanse
the colon.
Consider the same for any detoxification program and
Detox supplements you may be taking. It is important to
let the detoxification components scour toxins from the
body before additional nutritive supplements are added.
This way, they don't get in one another's way.
Your body requires an uninterrupted period of time to
eliminate the food stuffs it has been given during the day
in order to apply the nutrient intake to the body. This
allows the proper time required for the body to repair
and restore the organs and body systems during the night,
making it ready for a healthy new day when awakening
the next morning.
The types of foods eaten each day vary greatly but there
is almost 24 hours required to complete digestion and
some foods have a longer digestion time, such as peanuts.
According to Chinese medicine, the night and early morning
hours before approximately 5:00 A.M. are passive times of
the day when the digestive organs need rest. The liver in
particular needs time to complete numerous metabolic
functions unhampered by digestive activity, so don't eat too
late at night. When late meals are eaten, digestive activity,
liver cleansing, and blood purification are interrupted.
The body's internal organs are set for peak activity times
during two-hour intervals. For example, the liver's most
active time to cleanse and restore is between 1:00 and
3:00 A.M.; the stomach's most active time is from 7:00 to
9:00 A.M.
An organ's activity period is approximately 12 hours away
from its peak restorative interval. So, if the stomach's
activity time to heal and restore is from 7:00 to 9:00 A.M.,
it's cut-off for eating activity is 12 hours earlier, from 7:00
to 9:00 P.M.
This is one reason you may wake up hungry, but also why
it is important to have one of your biggest and most
nutritious meals early in the day, around 12:00 noon.
Be aware of mixing your vitamins and fiber, and eat your
larger meals earlier in the day for optimum health. Keep
taking fiber supplements and eating fiber-rich meals, but
take your vitamins with your lowest fiber meal of the day
and eat lighter meals by 6:00 P.M. A positive side-effect -
you'll lose weight and burn more fat, naturally.
