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From the desk of Richard
Penfounde, your Naturally Healthy Lifestyle specialist.
WHETHER you were dancing on the table or nursing a hangover
under it there are some well-researched aids to improving your
drinking habits.
Today there are recognised stages of imbibing, which stretch you
between being relaxed and speaking in a slurred fashion.
STAGE 1: one glass beer, one large sherry, one double spirit, two
glasses wine, relaxes you.
STAGE 2: Increase stage one by 50% and you'll feel even more
carefree and outreaching with slipped inhibitions.
STAGE 3: Repeat stage one again and you re NOT capable of driving
but you feel that you are.
STAGE 4: Double everything you've drunk so far and you'll lose
control over speech delivery, vision clarity and co-ordination.
Alcohol tolerance levels (the rate at which your liver processes and
burns up alcohol) will vary enormously between sexes and age levels.
Your nutritional quality will play an enormous part. Cumulatively
the body's nutritional lake can become very low or even dry up from
time to time. Eating plenty of raw foods – veggies, fruits, nuts and
grains will help avoid this drought.
Otherwise it is best to be aware of what to replace by regular
supplements if you if you don't want the vital working parts of your
body to become sluggish or start wearing out. Too often today the
temptation to eat easy fast-foods becomes the norm and that's when
nutritional damage accumulates.
The brain is a big loser under these conditions. Brain fatigue and
mood swings can become part of so called normal living so that one
hardly recognises the difference, to say nothing of headaches and
loss of libido.
Help is at hand and here are the major players:
- VITAMIN B COMPLEX: In order to metabolise alcohol the body
snatches all the remaining reserves of Vitamin B Complex it can
find. Since these of vitamins are water soluble their reserves at
any one time, with or without alcohol consumption, are not great.
If you are feeding on processed foods quite often and taking in a
fair amount of refined sugars they will be lowered. This is when
depression and fatigue can creep in.
In choosing a B Complex supplement to work best in these times
choose one that includes Niacin as the B3 source. Niacin hastens
detoxification.
If you have a celebration coming up take 25-50mg of B Complex
before, during and just after the party. Otherwise 2 x 25mg a day is
sufficient.
- VITAMIN C: (also water soluble) If one drinks two to three glasses
of beer a day or half bottle of wine or two or three doubles of
spirits ensure 1,000mg of Vitamin C gets in dailv. If you're a
smoker add another 1,000mg.
- MAGNESIUM: This unassuming mineral can do a major disappearing act
from your body and land you with a number of aches and pains and
fatigue – 50mg daily helps the balance.
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ZINC: After a night out. 50mg of Zinc.
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CHROMIUM: A really big little one to take note of. Alcohol
increases fruit sugar levels and has different reactions in
different people. It is almost certain that its effects will cause a
roller-coaster of highs and lows over the next 24 hours. These are
the times that cravings for a "hair of the dog” or chocolate hit
home and cumulatively they are not good for the mind or the inner
insulin factory. Men and women can suffer calcium loss from the
bones during these swings and the body's management of osteoporosis
can be thrown out of balance-200mg of Chromium added back can help.
Finally, give the liver a bonus by a daily intake of GLA capsules.
These are available from Borage or Evening Primrose sources. Borage
oil at present holds more pre-formed GLA than any other known
source.
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