The Problem with Vitamin Deficiency

Year after year, the consensus seems to be that we live in the most advanced and powerful country on the planet. We enjoy countless technological luxuries, spend hard earned money on vain aesthetics and God knows we have more than enough to eat around here. Why is it, then, that citizens are diagnosed with serious diseases everyday – illnesses that could and should be prevented through simple vitamin supplements? The answer is just as simple and quite apt: Vitamin Deficiency.

Our bodies are designed to harness essential vitamins through a healthy diet. Milk and eggs are excellent sources of vitamin A, oats are barley contain vitamin B, citrus is good for vitamin C, etc. This is somewhat common knowledge, but let’s face it, the average American is unable to adhere to such a regimen of healthy foods. Plus, the synergistic combination of wheat depletion, processed foods and an unpredictable environment is making traditionally healthy foods more and more nutrient deficient. Recently, British researchers even made a connection between vitamin D deficiency and the onset of multiple sclerosis – now a disease that ravages nearly 2.5 million people worldwide.  

"In people with the DRB1 variant associated with multiple sclerosis, it seems that vitamin D may play a critical role," said University of Oxford researcher Julian Knight.

Other symptoms of vitamin deficiencies can be just as brutal. For example, a severe lack of vitamin A can cause the gradual onset of dry eye, taste impairment, the inability to heal correctly and even night blindness.

As Susan M. Keenan said in her article “Are You Suffering From Vitamin Deficiency?” published on www.lifescript.com, “A sufficient supply of vitamin A is important for several bodily functions including healthy skin and growth, good vision, tooth formation and lactation.”

You know your body. You know its weaknesses. Treat yourself with an appropriate vitamin supplement. This is not to say that you can compensate for a diet of trash by merely sticking to supplements. They are not a blanket solution and they only go so far.

As Robert D. Milne, M.D. says in his book PC Liposomal Encapsulation Technology, “Only 1/10th to 1/20th of the oral Vitamin C we ingest is actually bio-available due to the perilous mechanisms for assimilation” (Milne 82).

In other words, we need a streamlined and potent new system of delivery for vitamins and other nutrients. We are too advanced to be suffering so severely from mere vitamin deficiencies, and something tells me the system is out there already. We just need to implement it on a mass scale.

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