Nutrition

Nutritional medicine is both very old and very new. Nutritional and herbal treatments are two of the oldest methods of fostering the healing process, with roots extending back to the dawn of civilisation. The use of isolated synthetic chemicals to treat illness, however, is a development of this century, a by product of our increasing ability to isolate health factors from whole foods but sell them as isolates that the body does not recognise or absorbs.

By definition, nutrients nourish the body. They are the natural chemicals used by the body to maintain health and combat illness. Some nutrients are essential and some are optional. In the early part of this century, certain nutritional deficiencies were shown to cause specific diseases. Beriberi, for example, was found to be caused by a thiamine deficiency. Scurvy was found to be caused by vitamin C deficiency.

In 1937, the Nobel Prize for medicine was awarded to the father of nutritional science, Dr Albert Szent Gyorgyi, for discovering vitamin C. He was the first scientist to isolate the active ingredient in oranges and limes. It was known that these fruits cured scurvy, which was a common disease of sailors during the 19th century.

After conducting additional research the doctor was astonished when he discovered that although scurvy patients recovered when they consumed an orange. They did not recover when they were given the isolated form of vitamin C which is ascorbic acid.

This is indeed the reason behind why most of the synthetic chemicals on the market place being sold as vitamins have such poor absorption rates. They are isolates with no address and no direction in the body to go to. Mega dose vitamins have caused problems too. The National Kidney Association has issued a warning those mega doses of vitamin C (sold as ascorbic acid - not vitamin C) could be causing kidney stones.

Dr Szent Gyorgi spent the next 60 years trying to discover why isolates do not work.

In 1999 Dr Gunther Blobel was awarded a Nobel Prize for his research when he discovered the exact mechanisms of how nutrients are transported into the cells of our bodies.

StarGate Nutrition and its team of scientists have discovered how to place active components of nutrients back into a food matrix. This food matrix is then tableted and introduced to the body and has been scientifically proved to be 16 times more efficient than a nutrient isolate.

When EU legislation comes into power in 2004 that is set to wipe off 90% of what is currently on offer to the consumer StarGate Nutrition products are set to become the replacement for consumers.

The good news is that what is set to replace synthetic chemicals after a 67 year wait is finally nutrients the body can both recognise and absorb starting with StarGate Nutrition Multi Vitamin and Mineral formula called Baseline.

By supplementing your diet with Baseline multi vitamin and minerals you can protect your body against all nutrient deficient diseases caused by going below the essential nutrient baseline required for health.