Part 4 of my interview with a very healthy octogenarian:
Q: There’s been a lot of talk about supplements too, and how supplements may or may not be helpful and, you know, there’s – depending on who you read and listen to, there’s a lot of hype versus a lot of money being spent on supplements. It’s quite a huge industry. I know it’s quite popular for a lot of online businesses to sell supplements. And the key with supplements, from what I can see is, I mean it can be very expensive, especially if you’re retired and on a limited income. So, you know, is it important for supplementation to occur and, if so, where would you say, you know, is the best bang for the buck, especially if you don’t have a lot of money just to go out and buy all the supplements that you want? What would be, you know, your top two or three supplements that you think are most beneficial if you are on a limited budget?
A: You can load up on all kinds of supplements. But I don’t think that you need everything that’s out there. But there are some basics and, for instance, when you read your AARP magazine – and I think an awful lot of people do belong to the AARP – they have available vitamins and minerals. And other sources tell you that, for instance, Centrum Silver, you hear about this all the time as seniors. But this is a multi-vitamin.
I recommend to people that unless they really seriously investigate the vitamins that they think they need for themselves – now each individual person is an individual and his body needs different things, and people eat different foods, so supplementing is important. Because as you get older, your body just doesn’t process the food like when you’re young and, therefore, yes, vitamins are very important. I don’t think that the necessary vitamins are all that expensive and especially if you buy them from some of the people – some of the company’s like Puritan’s Pride or Swanson, and there are several others.
And, of course, today all of the drugstores and all of the big supermarkets carry a line of multi-vitamins. So you have to choose what you think is best. But we all know that Vitamins A, B and especially Vitamin C – Vitamin C has many times not been given the credit. There’s a book out called Curing the Incurable, and it’s about Vitamin C and infective diseases, and about toxins. And they – they talk in there just like other books do, that a lot of people don’t realize it but we have to detox our bodies periodically in order to clean out our systems and there is historical information that people for, you know, many hundreds of years have detoxed their bodies periodically.
All kinds of physicians out there and chiropractors specialize in helping people detox their bodies because the way to health is that you have to clean your body out and then start putting the proper food, which is the foods that – In fact, when God made the world, He told people – for all of those who wish to investigate the Bible, you can go to Genesis, paragraph 1 – Chapter 1, paragraph 29, and you will see there what God told Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden what to eat. And this consisted of plant foods and fruits and vegetables and nuts, dates and all kinds of foods that were there.
We have steered from that because of our modern society and our modern processing. The meat that was back in the old days is not the meat that we are receiving today. There was no mad cow disease in those days, there is now and the world is not really paying much attention to that. And if you read the main line – the mainstream media, they talk very little about mad cow because we have powerful lobbies in this country. The American Cattlemen’s Association, American Dairymen’s Association, they spend much money to convince the world that milk products and meat products are the best for you. And that is not really so.
The government now is publishing some material, not a lot of it but their people are beginning to understand and realize that you just cannot eat those standard foods because later on in life it’s going to affect you. And it does a lot of us, and only after – like in my case, find that I had the cancer and then I say Well, what must I do? Well, you must clean your body out and then you must put the right food into that body and you’ll find that you’ll be healthy. And longevity is not really a problem.
