Fatness, and Vitamins
I hope by now you guys are taking vitamin d, and if you’ve heard this suggestion and haven’t started popping it daily, start now. No seriously, I mean right now, stop reading this and go buy some. I’ll wait, so will this article. What follows is something I like to term advanced paleo jutsu, not for white belts who forget to pop their vitamin d.
This has been the latest health care push, even MD’s are realizing how important this stuff is. Even though their is no patent and it doesn’t line the pockets of some pharma a-hole, there seems to be no denying the health benefits and improvements associated with adequate blood levels. Really though, this and other minerals, vitamins, phytonutrients, and flavonoids should be a common sense requirement for good health. Unfortunately, the standard American diet, and the one recommended by USDA and the American heart association comes up extremely lacking in terms of those nutrients. Most of the unfortunate, obese individuals who follow their advice are really malnourished, not in terms of calories for energy, but micro-nutrients for optimal health. Don’t even get me started on popping a multi-vitamin to make up for a shit diet either, that’s just a magic trick to turn your pee a different color.
Warning- What follows is psuedo science, and theoretical, so why the f*** are you reading it and taking advice from a professional exerciser?
Vitamin d may be getting popular these days for it’s benefits, but all the fat soluble vitamins have been experimented with and found to be health promoting and essential. They’ve gotten some bad press these past few decades, and if you were to go to nutrition school these days they would warn against toxicity levels of these vitamins.
There were some awesome dentists though, like Weston Price for one, back in the early 1900′s that ran some simple and legit experiments. Weston Price did his experiments mostly geared toward vitamin K (he called it activator x, which sounds more bad-ass). They (dentists) could feed children a standard diet, and one heavy in fat soluble vitamins (mostly through full fat dairy) and make cavities cease and heal tooth decay. Weston Price also wrote “Nutrition and Physical Degeneration”, in which he concludes that diseases of western civilisation are absent in hunter gatherer groups. Different groups would eat different levels of meat, roots, seafood, fruits, etc. The commonality he found between all the diets were high levels of fat soluble vitamins; A,D,E, and K (what he called activator x).
The theory goes that super dosing one (vit A), with low levels of others (like vit d) leads to toxicity problems. However, adequate levels of all 4 (A,E,D, and K) makes the toxicity threshold a huge margin, nearly impossible to meet. While I can’t recommend how you should to eat (too late), as I’m no scientist or dentist (they’re doctors too, sort of), here’s some foods I eat that are rich in fat soluble vitamins.
Vitamin D;
-Sunlight, a food group we are seriously deprived from in our grey purgatory.
-liver (chicken, beef)
-cod liver oil
-vitamin d3 gel caps (which you should have taken today)
Vitamin A;
-cod liver oil
-liver
-butter (pasture raised)
-various veggies
Vitamin K;
-Butter (pastured)
-egg yolk (pasture raised)
-liver
-Sauerkraut
Vitamin E;
-almonds
-spinach (cooked so you can get a lot down)
-broccoli
-red palm oil
-various fruits and veggies
There are of course, other sources of these vitamins but I’m lazy and didn’t have time for all that research. These are prominent sources, there are other sources with smaller quantities.
Check out the Whole Health Source Blog, the guy’s a gansta, 5th degree black belt in paleo jutsu.
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