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I take a Multivitamin or multimineral every morning, chosen by my research to fend off deficiencies I may have based on my diet. I have had to change
them over the years because they changed their formula and I caught it after starting to feel down a little. I also take supplements at night to
balance things and sometimes I feel like I need a specific one if I start running low. Getting my ancestry genetics and getting a gene app helped to
identify any deficiencies I have...well worth what I spent on those things...about a hundred twenty bucks total.
Both my multimineral tablet and my multivitamin I take have a little boron. Plus every time I wash my clothes, I use Borax, a little of the borax
does get left in the clothes and your skin will uptake it. One thing I have learned to with another mineral...magnesium. If I wash my hands with a
little epsom salts, I can go outside in the winter without getting cold. Your skin takes that up and magnesium and sulfate activate things close to
the skin which helps you to create energy to stay warm. Also I use some epsom salts to wash my hair and skin in the shower before soaping up...a tiny
bit on the washcloth is all I need. It also does halp me to stay warm, but it really can help if I am constipated for some reason, way better than
using it as a laxative. I do also put a tiny bit of magnesium sulfate on my coffee grounds in the coffee filter, that pinch is plenty to help me
poop, again for some reason it is way more potent that way for that than having some disolved in warm water...I have no clue why it works better
either. I have some in a marked sugar container on my counter.
Boron supplements are not expensive, a small one is usually plenty. When I do the laundry, I also stir up the borax in the tub before adding the
clothes, it is readily absorbed in the hands because the skin is the biggest organ of the body. Borax is not pure, but boron supplements are. I did
try consuming a little Borax during my testing but only to see if it did anything. Then I ordered supplements, but I weeded through the what seems
like millions of supplements and found ones that matched my needs. The most important supplement for me in a small dose is molybdenum every day.
My total cost for all my supplements for the month is about thirty bucks a month, higher now because I take taurine and a NAC supplement every day so
I can easier control my epilepsy. Special soups are still needed, but I don't need to eat them every single day anymore, more like three days a week.
You get sick of soup when you have to eat it all the time. But the taurine does not take care of all of the seizure risk like soup does. Taurine
and NAC both need Molybenum coenzymes to work in our bodies, both to make taurine and to utilize taurine. That also goes for NAC too. I have
genetics where I only have a little moco enzyme production, so I need to utilize that creation by supplementing the molybdenum. Now when I used to
drink a beer or two every day...It had bioactive molybdenum compounds in it, but I quit drinking except for maybe a few beers a year now....not kegs,
just twelve ounce bottles.
Boron seems to have a calming effect for some reasons, maybe because of calcium balancing. Coffee actually contains a little bit of boron somehow,
but you would have to probably have to drink six big cups or more to get as much as a serving of something like broccoli. No problem, I drink a
minimum of six ten ounce cups a day.
My nephew was trying to drink borax in water because he thought he might have worms...I gave him my boron tablets, they are cheap and once I found
multiminerals containing it, I wasn't taking them anymore. I do not know if he actually had those troublesome little tiny worms, but the boron
supplements probably made him healthier.
There are lots of things that are healthy except highly processed foods which most often bind things in the food and making them inaccessible.
Cooking meat at high temperature will bind taurine and NAC to the proteins and make them inaccessible to take up. The wife likes her meat burnt to a
crisp, and that means all the meat mostly is done that way in our house, so I need to take a supplement. The beef we get is grass fed organic, the
farmer we buy our half cow from is very picky in what he feeds the cows so the meat is rich in minerals. It now costs us about seven bucks a pound
burger and better and around three fifty a pound for the soup bones and liver and heart and stuff like that...also the short ribs in that cheaper
price. We buy it not for the health benefit though, it is as good nutritionally as venisin but tastes way better. we buy it because it tastes great,
better by far than the grass fed organic at the store. It is about two grand for half a cow, but it makes great christmas presents for my family
too....half goes to my close family. I am not going to give them an inferior Christmas present, I could give them two hundred bucks but they would
waste it eating out one meal at a fancy restaurant for their families. We also feed my great grandkids when we baby sit and also my granddaughters
ex-husband/widow who cares for the kids now that she is gone. We make supper every night, usually it is rarely highly processed food, most all
suppers are made from scratch. Our great granddaughter is here five days a week while school is going on so her and her dad get a good meal five days
a week...my great grandson is only here two days a week, maybe three, he goes to my ex's house two days and to my son-in-laws mothers two days a week
usually.
It does not cost a lot of money to eat good food, but it is an extreme amount of time invested to make it. I used some of the marrow bones from the
cow to make bone broth...It turned out great, but fifteen hours of stewing yesterday. Today I put two and a half quarts of it in the freezer and we
made a big pot of Minestrone soup. Oh it is like heaven. We also use the bone broth to make french onion soup. Most people would not spend the
time...mostly because they do not have the time...to boil bones to make bone broth. You get bone grease from it too when you skim it. That bone
grease is great for cooking, especially in the minestrone and onion soups. We also render the fat we get from the cow too. Great tasting stuff, and
I do not count the marrow bones or the fat in that seven bucks or three fifty a pound I figured above, it is not worth saying it is worth anything
because of the work involved so to me value is all derived by the processing...fooling myself into believing I am benefiting by all the work and
electricity to process those things...Overall, I think if I were to combine things it would be about six bucks a pound based on a seventy eight
percent rate after two weeks hanging and loss from the hanging weight of the meat. Processing has gone up quite a bit over the years too.
So, there are foods you can get that have more nutrients and even though you do pay a little more, you tend to eat less because the flavor solves your
craving to eat as much...nutrients do give flavor. Flavor that satisfies you with less. I could eat four ounces of our roast and be very satisfied,
yet when we get a store bought roast occasionally just to teach us that real meat is better, I can eat the whole roast and still be hungry.