10/30/2020
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Eating healthy, but not feeling healthy?
by Frank Lichtenberger MD, PhD
Board Certified β Internal Medicine, Allergy & Immunology.
If there is one question I get asked most often by patients, it would be something along the lines of "what types of food can I eat to be healthier." Now the term "healthier" has different meanings for different folks, but most of the time people want to have more energy, concentration, less sickness, and/or better mood. Iβve even heard people say that "food is medicine," while I grew up in the "food is fuel" decades of the 80βs and 90βs. So what is food fact or what is food truth? Iβve found that each individual person has their own food truth, and unfortunately for many Americans their food is poison. For lots of folks, just switching to an organic, whole food diet, can make a world of difference. However there are plenty of people that have a super clean diet, but still donβt get 100% of the benefit from the food they eat.
I see lots of people that are absorbing calories from food, but calories are only energy, and not complete nutrition. When people absorb calories but not the essential compounds needed to use calories, the body stores calories(fat). While humans share nearly identical DNA with each of our 8 billion brothers and sisters across the globe, our guts are as different on the inside as the languages and cultures that make our planet so diverse. Digestion moves at different speeds, and our guts are populated by widely different species of bacteria, so even people who are the same age and who live in the same household may have widely different efficiency from the same diet.
Absorption of vitamins and minerals is significantly more complicated than calorie absorption. For example, the human body has 3 different hormones that affect calcium absorption from the gut. Moreover, timing of ingestion, acidic/alkaline environments, and/or microflora enzymes can breakdown or steal our food sourced vitamins/minerals. In the human bodyβs highly complicated system, many things have to go perfectly for our digestive system to maximally extract all the good stuff from our food. This can be derailed by stress, slow digestion, bad gut flora, and many other things. So bypassing the gut entirely seems like an elegant solution to a potentially common problem.
Intravenous or Intramuscular injections of "vitaminerals" are prescription only, and really only necessary for patients with highly dysfunctional guts. I've been providing IV vitamins/minerals in my clinic for about 2 years, but can only find space for a few people each week. But what about mild gut dysfunction? Or doing better than optimal gut ingestion? Transdermal(patch) supplementation of these nutrients simplifies the chaos of the modern day American over-stressed gut, bypassing the complicated system delivers essential nutrients directly into the body, for maximal utilization.
Dr. Frank J Lichtenberger MD, PhD
Board Certified: Internal Medicine, Allergy/Immunology
State License: North Carolina 2012-00072
Co-Founder, Director of Biologic Medication and Laboratory Stewardship