Welcome to the New Vita-Nutrient Forum

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Please take a moment to read this & welcome to the Vita-Nutrient section of the board

If you study the writings of Dr. Atkins his WOL is really a two pronged approach. Not only was his dietary approach revolutionary & as we all know now dead on correct. His work on the value of Vita-Nutrient supplementation is just as vast & also was way ahead of it's time.

I've read his "Age Defying Diet Revolution" & his "Vita Nutrient Solution" the latter is fast becoming THE encylodepedia of Supplementation as well as a host of other literature on the subject of Vita Nutrients. Other good books are Dr Ray Strand's "What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutrional Medicine May Be Killing You" & Zone Diet's Barry Sears "The Rx Zone, The Miracle of Fish Oil". Other early promoters of Vita-Nutrients in weight loss & overall health are Drs. Heller & Vaginini authors of the 'Carbohydrate Addict's Guide to a Healthy Heart'

Much has been learned about Vita-Nutrients over the past twenty years with even more & more revealing discoveries in just the past 5 years. If you read Dr Atkins carefully Vita-Nutrients & Low Carb Eating are just different but equal components of his overall health strategy

For me when I realized, through my own experience & reading about so many others like the people on this board, Dr Atkins eating plan worked exactly as described, he gained a mountain of credibility & my complete & total trust. If you read on over his body of work after developing his diet he later really beame even more heavily involved in Vita-Nutrient therapy & became one it's most vocal practioners & proponents.

The moderators of this board were recently discussing the need for a board addressing this topic & well it went down just like in my real life job(Tom are you buddies w/my CEO or what?). That’s a great idea Skank & Bren, so let’s do it & hey you two are in charge & guess what by the way, I've already set it up so go to it. So here we are with this new forum space generously provided by Tom the BM.

This is why we need this forum so much. Vita-Nutrients is a much more complex topic to discuss than the eating because, well in the diet aspect, for example, asparagus is asparagus but w/Vita Nutrients everybody is promoting 'their' favourite brand/type/formula as better & more effective than the next so truely objective & factual information is much harder to come by. Almost all the experts, & to be honest this includes Dr Atkins, have their own private agenda/products they are pushing.

I am no expert at all when it comes to supplementaion. I have been researching my butt off & playing w/supplements but I feel like I don't really know that much either & everytime I find somebody who 'proclaims' they're an expert they're selling something specific for personal profit. I just want some objective information but find it is very hard to come by.

There are a lot of forums about Atkins style eating but very few about supplementaton, which I believe over time will become as big or bigger than the Atkins dietary plan. So please I hope everyone that posts here will try to help us build a library of information about various Vita-Nutrients

For my part I will try best to answer questions based on the information as laid out in Dr Atkins Vita-Nutrient Solution & I hope all of you will add to these discussions based on your own personal experience.