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Originally Posted by Gale Force
I would take the CLO before the other oils. Spend the money there first in my opinion. then you will get the A,D, and Omega 3s
How much cal and mag are you taking? Poultry liver is good too. My mom prefers it as well. Is there a good phytate reduction thread around here? ? Maybe we should start one if there isn't one bump-worthy. |
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Originally Posted by Gale Force
And it looks like Nordic Naturals is making it less relevant -- a nutritional label I found online in reordering has lower vitamin levels than what is in my fridge.
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Originally Posted by carnelian
Mama-a-llama I think that particular brand of Amla C has a small amount of maltodextrin added to it as a drying agent. Not sure about that but you might want to check--maltodextrin being a form of corn sugar.
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| Has anyone used the CLO from Radiant Life? I'm thinking about ordering Amla-c from there, so it seemed logical to combine. Also does anyone know what the shipping costs for the Blue Ice are like? I couldn't find it on the site, and cost is a factor for me. And does anyone else have a problem, not with the taste--the NN is very light tasting--but just with the texture, the fact that you're swallowing a tsp or more of OIL straight? I had to hide in juice after the first time kept making me nauseated. |
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to all you mamas! Mehera,
I think it's necessary to go thru a real crisis in order to change. Both to realize there is a problem and to make the commitment to do something about it. And to turn away from reliance on mainstream opinion and fully trusting your mama intuition. Thank you for being so humble as to tell your story unvarnished, it helps all of us learn too.| Vitamin A for Fetal Development By Mary G. Enig, PhD The major target tissues of vitamin A deficiency include the heart, central nervous system, the circulatory, urogenital and respiratory systems, and the development of the skull, skeleton and limbs. Vitamin A deficiencies during the period when any of these systems begin specialization can result in abnormalities and defects. According to Zile, even partial vitamin A deficiency affects the sensitive developing central nervous system; it plays a key role in the development of the visual system, the retina, the inner ear, the spinal cord, the craniofacial area including the pharyngeal and branchial arches and the thymus, thyroid and parathyroid glands. During mid-gestation, vitamin A is required for fetal lung development. In vitamin A-deficient animals, congenital malformations in the urogential system occur. Most interesting is new research on the effect of vitamin A on kidney development. Vitamin A deficiency results in a reduced number of nephrons in the kidney. Lower numbers of nephrons mean the kidneys will not work at optimal levels and may doom the individual to dialysis later in life.2 Another fascinating avenue of research has shown that vitamin A holds the key to what scientists call the “holy grail” puzzle of developmental biology: the existence of a mechanism that ensures that the exterior of our bodies is symmetrical while the inner organs are arranged asymmetrically. Researchers at the Salk Institute have found that vitamin A provides the signal that buffers the influences of asymmetric cues in the early stages of development, and allows these cells to develop symmetrically. In the absence of vitamin A, the exterior of our bodies would develop asymmetrically, with the result being that our right side would be shorter than the left side.3 After the formation of all the organ systems, vitamin A supports their growth. Chronic vitamin A deficiency during pregnancy compromises the liver, heart and kidney and impairs lung growth and development during the last weeks of gestation.4 http://www.westonaprice.org/knowyour...l-develop.html |
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Originally Posted by JaneS
We get our local butter from Southern NH
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Originally Posted by bigknitwit
It's almost time for me to buy more cod liver oil, and since the carlson's doesn't seem to be high vitamin I'm shopping for something different. My question is: all the high vitamin brands are very high in Vit A and an order of magnitude less for vit D. I thought I needed to consume almost equal quantities of the two naturally occurring vitamins to protect against toxicity. Am I overlooking something, or do most people taking high vitamin cod liver oil also take a (natural) vit D supplement?
Hmm after reading that vit A helps labor/delivery (among other things), I'm wondering how many tbsps of my low vit carlsons I should take (I'm 36 weeks along)?! I've been taking 1 tbsp almost daily, I wonder if I should be taking a little more... and then what about the high vitamin cod liver oil - should I reduce the dose to the traditional 1tsp or so? |
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Originally Posted by bigknitwit
Wow! I live in Southern NH (Nashua) and here I am trying to source all these new foods now that there's suddenly very little in the grocery store that I wish to feed my family. WHERE ARE YOU GETTING YOUR LOCAL BUTTER??!! What other sources can you point me towards? I've done some hunting around on eatwild, etc, but I haven't found sources that I thought were "great," and several of them were dead ends.
Also, does anyone combine high vitamin butter oil with their cod liver oil dosing? I'm curious to hear about this... |
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