Welcome to the section on supplementation in this section where you will learn about how to incorporate supplements within your lifestyle, and also which deficiencies come up in most people when they come in for a naturopathic session. Usually, when you're thinking about supplementation, the first place to look is your diet. So when you're using the right diet and hydration within the system, then that's the perfect environment to incorporate any supplements. So basically settlements won't absorb into the cells unless you actually have a relatively good hydration level. And also the systems that work align the nutrition usual, as well as making sure the liver function is usually function to an optimum condition before you think about things like essential fatty acids. And so the first place to start and the most common deficiency in most people is Amiga three fatty acids, mainly because it's an essential fatty acids.

There actually isn't that much in the diet these days. And so you'd Start with Amiga three and that really helps the absorption of magnesium and B vitamins and also the trace minerals. And so without that in place, you will find that other B complexes and relations may not absorb as well. So always start with essential fatty acids and dependent way of bodies that will mean that what level you need to be individual for you. So you may be flux or one person or it may be an hour will be for another person. Let's suggest looking at their supplement section on essential fatty acids.

In order to understand this. The starting point would be dietary sources of lemon seed, chia seed, and also incorporating a small amount of flax oil or hemp oil in the diet, making sure the liver can actually metabolize those supplements and that will be based on how you feel you should feel that way energized after taking them. There's any sign of nausea or digestive sluggishness then there may be a chance that you're not absorbing those oils. That might be a time to go to something like analogy. And some people do specials as well, we tend to suggest we can base products in our practice. And so Amiga three is the starting block for all the other supplements.

And from there then you can look at common deficiencies like be between complex and be bitten is generally to be taken together as a complex. If you isolate one Bay between for longer than three months, if you're actually just taking, for example, the five or six on its own, you might find this actually longer term the creates an imbalance in the other B vitamins. So you want to be taking that as a complex as well as whatever else you're isolating alongside it. So you can have your B complex plus your vitamin B 12, or plus to the 25. If you wanted to increase certain B vitamins for health, but generally as a big complex, you're looking at a minimum dosage of 100 milligrams and that would be incorporated. added in breakfast or lunch, and that really would be used for energy fatigue, and also have been to improve memory concentration have been with stress and really generally improving vitality.

I think a lot of people suffer from the vitamin deficiency these days because when we're dehydrated and stress, then the B vitamins don't absorb as well. But also we lose B vitamins through the the stress reaction, the adrenal reaction in the system, and things like alcohol, caffeine and sugar, they deplete B vitamins rapidly. So it's quite a common factor. And you can tell this by looking at the term if the term has a crack down the middle at the center then it may be a B two in complex deficiency and also things like grain hair and feeling stress for no reason or being anxious for no reason that possibly is is a B between complex deficiency and from there then we will look at Kima rows are not the most common deficiency that shows up in most people is magnesium mainly because it's not in the diet these days because of solid deficiency of magnesium.

And so we usually target that as a supplement when most people who have low energy or less than fatigue, issues with sleep, thin concentration, the nervous system, etc. So, magnesium helps to regulate the hormones, it's great for energy. It really does help with the whole metabolic process. It helps with the balance fluid in the system. It helps to ask Eliza bodysuit is a really big one for absorption about the nutrients but also have been the bones and teeth become strong with magnesium. So there's many many different reasons why you might take it, but it's generally quite a common deficiency.

So once you've looked at the meat industry, the B vitamins, magnesium, we may then look Good nutrients then which show up in other people such as zinc deficiency, vitamin C deficiency. They are again, common deficiencies. Again, zinc doesn't come into the diet and a huge amount of the vegetarian diet. So there might be common deficiencies there in people based on history, especially if there's been addictions and hormonal imbalances. And vitamin C gets used up rapidly under stress. And so you might be thinking about it, you know, increasing the immunity in the biology, increasing the detoxification in the body and that with literacy can be absolutely wonderful for that.

So in regards to other niches that there's so many supplements out there that are on the market, but we generally look at what we call the prostaglandin hormone regulating formula first before targets in any of the supplementation to the prostaglandin hormone regulating formula is omega three omega Say, the beaver doing complex magnesium, zinc, vitamin C and vitamin E. And so we get some of those issues from diets but there may be a need to supplement for some people, particularly if there's long term illness or hormonal imbalance. And it's not a formula that needs to come into the body through diets and supplements before we look at other nutritional deficiencies. If that formula is not right, then other things want to absorb as well. So we do work in a particular system working with the mega threes first, then B vitamins as a complex and then magnesium and from there we look at at the minerals or their antioxidant deficiencies.

So always work in that order. If we start to things like Wittman, C and zinc, they won't absorb as well. And as you start to think about hydration and oil deficiency, and so you want to be thinking about that system when you're choosing your supplementation. And usually when you're hydrated in your diet is gluten free and free from acid forming foods supplements will absorb that much more fully so you end up taking much less anyway, long term