VITAMINS FOR HEALTHY SKIN
What you look like on the outside depends a lot on what you do for yourself on the inside. And as far as your skin is concerned, vitamins and proper nutrition are essential.
To look your best, make sure you’re getting 55 to 65 g. of protein a day. Drink eight glasses of water daily [herbal teas can count for a few of them], and keep your milk and yoghurt consumption restricted to the nonfat variety. Keep away from chocolate, nuts, dried fruits, fried foods, cola drinks, coffee, alcohol, cigarettes, and excessive salt. Also, do not use sugar. Small amounts of honey or blackstrap molasses will sweeten just as well and you’ll look better for it.
A good start toward healthy, glowing skin is a daily protein drink. It can be taken in place of any meal, but it makes an especially good breakfast.
Protein Drink
6 oz. raw nonfat milk
1 tbsp. nutritional yeast powder [lots of В vitamins]
3 tbsp, acidophilus [promotes friendly bacteria]
1 tbsp. granulated lecithin [breaks down bumps or cholesterol under the skin]
2 tbsp. protein powder
1/2-1 tbsp. blackstrap molasses or honey
Carob powder, bananas, strawberries, or any fresh fruit for flavouring
Mix in blender. [Add 3-4 ice cubes, if desired.]
Supplements
Multiple-vitamin and mineral complex – 1 daily
Take after any meal. Important for skin tone and nerve health.
В complex, 100 mg. [time release] – 1 daily Take after any meal. B2 [riboflavin] and B6 [pyridoxine] reduce facial oiliness and blackhead formation.
Vitamin A [dry form], 25,000 IU – 2 daily for 6 days a week. Take 1 after breakfast and 1 after dinner. Maintains soft, smooth, disease-free skin. Builds resistance to infections.
Rose hips vitamin C, 500 mg. with bioflavonoids – 4 daily Take 1 after each meal and at bedtime. Aids in preventing the spread of acne. Promotes healing of wounds, bruising, and scar tissue. Helps to prevent breakage of capillaries on face.
Vitamin E, 400 IU [dry form] – 3 daily. Take 1 after each meal. Improves circulation in tiny face capillaries. Aids in healing by replacing cells on the skin’s outer layer. Works with vitamin С in making skin less susceptible to acne. Use vitamin-E oil externally on skin for healing burns, abrasions, and scar tissue.
Multiple chelated minerals – 6 daily Take 2 tablets after each meal [or 3 in a.m. and p.m.] Helps maintain the acid-alkaline balance of the blood necessary for a clear complexion. Calcium is for soft, smooth skin tissue; copper for skin colour; iron to improve pale skin; potassium for dry skin and acne; zinc for external and internal wound healing.
Choline and inositol, 1,000 mg. – 4 tablets daily. Take 2 after breakfast and dinner. [Lecithin granules, 2 tbsp. daily, can be substituted for choline and inositol tabs.] Helps emulsify cholesterol [fatty deposits or bumps under the skin]. Purifies the kidneys which aids the skin.
Acidophilus – 6 tbsp. daily Take 2 tbsp. or 6 capsules after each meal. Helps fight skin eruptions caused by unfriendly bacteria in the system.
Chlorophyll – 3 tsp. or 9 tablets daily Take 1 tsp. or 3 tablets after each meal. Reduces hazard of bacterial contamination. Possesses antibiotic action. An excellent aid to wound healing, after washing thoroughly with a soap substitute made from the comfrey plant.
If the face is badly blemished, extra zinc is advised. Take six tablets daily, two after each meal. Aids in growth and repair of injured tissues.
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SPORTS INJURES: THE SKELETON – WHAT EXPERTS RECOMMEND
Call for calcium. To begin with, make sure you’re getting plenty of calcium, an important mineral for strengthening bones—most guys need about one gram per day. You can find calcium in virtually any dairy product. One cup of nonfat yogurt, for example, will give you almost half your daily calcium requirement.
Exercise your bones. Weight-bearing exercise—for the legs, that means any exercise in which you are on your feet—helps strengthen bones by building up bone mass. So if all of your exercise is done on a weight bench, your leg bones might not be as built up as they should be to absorb tackles in a football game.
Wear a helmet. Skull fractures are about the most dangerous of breaks—and thanks to an increasing interest in high-velocity sports, like cycling and skating, they’re unfortunately becoming more common. In bicycling alone, experts reckon you’re bur to seven times more likely to suffer a serious head injury if you’re not wearing a helmet. So wear one.
Spot stress indicators. Stress fractures cause more pain than swelling, says Dr. Janda. “If you feel a constant, steady pain—not soreness—about an hour after an activity, get it looked at,” he says. Common areas for stress fractures include the feet and legs, since bones there absorb a force equivalent to three times your body weight every time you run.
Bone up on rest. The good news about a stress fracture is that you probably won’t need a huge, cumbersome cast. The bad news is you will need to rest that bone. Experts say you should avoid any exercise with it for a couple of months. After that, your doctor can give you a support brace or bandage to help the injured bone while you resume your favorite sport.
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SEXUAL FITNESS: SHAPING UP AFTER VASECTOMY; VD AND VITAMIN DEMANDS
Shaping Up After Vasectomy
Vasectomy is a relatively simple, safe, sterilization procedure where the vas deferens (the male’s sperm-carrying tubes) are sealed, preventing the ejaculation of sperm. The sperm continue to be formed, but are re-absorbed into body tissues.
Because of this, many antibodies are engaged in continually inactivating sperm, often causing a man who has had a vasectomy to become more susceptible to infections.
Since most men have vasectomies in order to continue an active sex life, it’s wise to take out nutritional insurance to ensure it.
Recommended Nutritional Insurance
• MVP (Mindell Vitamin Programme)
• Extra vitamin C, 1,000 mg., a.m., and p.m.
• Chelated zinc, 15-50 mg., daily
VD and Vitamin Demands
Syphilis
Syphilis is caused by a tiny corkscrew-like organism called a spirochete. It is usually transmitted by sexual contact and requires only the presence of an open wound or slightly irritated mucous membrane, such as the mouth, rectum, or outer male and female genital organs, to enter the body.
In its first stage, there is usually a painless sore on the penis or entrance to the vagina. (The sore might appear instead, or also, on the nipple, anus, or finger.)
In its second stage (one to two months later), there is a mild general illness, sore throat, mild fever, and a pink non-itchy rash. (Third stage symptoms, which can endanger virtually all organs, appear four or more years later, but are extremely rare, as the disease is usually diagnosed by then.)
If early treatment is started with penicillin or any of the other newer antibiotics, recovery is swift and complete. Unfortunately, some of these remedies cause almost as much need for supplements as the disease itself.
Gonorrhea
Like syphilis, gonorrhea is usually transmitted through sexual contact, but the responsible organism, the gonococcus, has the ability to acquire a resistance to some of the most powerful medical weapons, such as sulpha drugs, penicillin, and many of the -mycins.
Symptoms occur three to ten days after infection. There is usually pain on passing urine and a discharge of pus. Often these symptoms go unnoticed by women.
Early and adequate treatment with antibiotics is essential in order to avoid complications. But, as I’ve mentioned before, though these remedies do their job, they take their nutritional toll out on you.
Recommended Supplement
• MVP
• Extra vitamin C, 1,000 mg., a.m and p.m.
• (3 acidophilus capsules, 3 times daily; and vitamin K, 100 meg., daily, if on an extended antibiotic programme.)
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