The Endometriosis and Fertility Clinic
"Let food be your medicine and medicine
be your food"
Hippocrates (460 BC)
Nutritional information
Supplements: are they necessary?
'Vitamins and minerals play a crucial
role in preserving and
maintaining health and restoring it in diseased
patients'.
Carl Pfeiffer,MD. PhD.
Supplements of vitamins, minerals and essential fatty acids taken for three to six months may help to replenish your body cells. When the body is ill it requires the building blocks of life to restore its vitality and renew failing cells. By taking nutritional supplements you can support the digestive, immune and reproductive systems and improve the body's healing potential. Remember that the body is striving to be well all the time. The only way the body has to heal itself is through the nutrients we eat, which allow renewal to occur. If the diet is deplete in nutrients or the GI tract is damaged then body cells will sustain damage.
Take a course of basic supplements
for three to six months whilst the diet is being corrected.
Daily take one each of the following:
- Multi-vitamin/mineral (yeast, gluten, dairy free) containing 25mg B complex vitamins
- Vitamin C with bioflavinoids 1000mg
- Evening primrose and fish oils 2000mg
- Acidophilus (at least 4 million live bacteria should be viable) (Take with a cold drink)
- Proanthacyanadins (one with each meal) OPTIONAL
- Selenium and vitamins A,C and E (yeast-free) - The Antioxidants
- Magnesium taurate or malate 300mg
- Zinc methionine 15mg
- Digestive enzyme with each meal (take with a cold drink)