Certified Organic Skin , Body and Wholefood supplements.

You are correct. In-Liven is not meant to replace all your supplements. It is a great product on it's own, but is not meant to replace a multi-vitamin.

However, the good news is that ONE Group (makers of InLiven) will be coming out with a whole range of certified organic whole food supplements in the close future.

 

Has anyone heard of New Chapter or Country Life (found in health food stores)? They make a great mostly all organic whole food supplement. Your daily multi.

 

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yes, a proper diet is key. sadly the majority does not eat a truly healthful diet. Let's you and I make a crusade to get people eating true healthful foods. Yippie!

 

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New Chapter Womens whole food Multi or Country Life's Whole Food Multi (which ever is on sale and which will be replaced by ONE Groups multi when availble)

 

In-Liven Probiotic

 

Macca (finally got my menstrual cycle in check)

 

New Chapter Whole Food Calcium at night to help me sleep and because I don't do a lot of dairy 

 

Flax Seed Oil for joint health  (i played a lot of soccer back in the day and now i bike a lot).

 

That's it.   ;-)

 

 

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The straight up oil is for the lubrication of the joints, you don't get enough oil from In-Liven. I have had major problems with my joints since I was young, so the extra oil in my diet is very beneficial. Their's a difference between flax meal and flax oil for joint health.

 

Because I eat more fruits than leafy veggies (i'm a fruit-aholic), I supplement with calcium and it helps me sleep, plus I am outside a lot and loose a lot of calcium (and other essential minerals) from sweating so much. I feel my calcium in take is just where I need it via In-Liven and my additional (small) supplementation.

 

 

Our soils are soooo depleted of minerals that supplementation is almost necessary in this day in age, even when eating an extremely "helthly" organic diet.

Check out: http://remineralize.org

 

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Remember the old school days of drinking a warm glass of milk before bed?

 

Yes, taking your calcium supplement at night is more healthful in many ways. and take it seperate from a multi because cal and iron bind together. also take it seperate from high doeses of fiber.

 

1. your body absorbs cal. easier at night. (cal is a large mineral and difficult to absorb) taking it when your body is at rest leaves your body the resources it needs to work on the cal.

2. cal relaxes muscles (prevents cramps too)

3. calms the mind from nervous behavior and depression

4.cal helps the brain use tryptophan, making it produce melatonin faster, (melatonin helps our body's rythm for dark and light) which relaxes our brains to enter deep sleep.

 

Activities like heavy excersising can slow the absorption of cal, but if you excersise like an average person  you will actually promote absorption.

 

cal should only be taken in small dosages as the body can't absorb more than 500mg at a time. so mega dosing at night is not the key. eating a strong healthful diet that contains food calcium through out the day and then a small dose at night should be sufficient for most people. calcium is part of the minerals we need to replace after profusely sweating. that's why you see it in so many fitness drinks. also, if you drink a lot of water that is super filtered/reverse osmosis, or distilled, that is DEAD water. your body needs live water. when you drink dead water, your body will leach the minerals from your muscles and bones to rebalance the water's ph in your system. you can add minerals to your dead water to revitalize it befor you drink. a great product that has no taste is called Trace Minerals by liqumins

 

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Thanks, Organicgal -- I was definitely unaware of these potential benefits of calcium before bed (both in terms of sleep and in terms of replenishing the body after exercise).  Interesting to think about the timing of taking these sort of supplements.  I think that most of us don't consider when exactly we take them.

I am, and have always been, in agreement that synthetic vitamins are crap. I never said that they were good. It seems you just keep going in circles. I am confused. You've not yet to prove that In-Liven is a multi-vitamin or that it can replace a full regimen for common people.

I believe it is an amazing product, but for the average person who does not eat healthfully, it is not going to provide everything. Eating all organic, whole foods is still a small subculture here in America. In-liven, alone, will produce an amazing difference in anybody who isn't eating healthfully, this is true.

For the average person, they first need to work on eating more whole foods anyways. With that being said, I still don't see where anyone from ONE Group has said In-Liven replaces all supplementation and that it's a multi. It's a probiotic. And Narelle's reply just confirms what I've been saying, it's not a multi. Narelle eats much cleaner and healthfully than any average American. So she does get her nutrients the correct way. But in reality and on average, the "normal" folks, do need to supplement their diets. Whether it's lack of wholesome food, or lack of organic food, or both, supplementation is necessary in this day and age of processed foods that travel a zillion miles and get heated in a microwave...all this adds up to detrimental nutrient loss.

IMO, it's not fair to tell people that In-liven is all they need without knowing their needs and true health issues. For you, you take extra fish oil. For someone else they may need extra B's, DHA, etc. because they are pregnant.  For someone else that can't take high amounts of K, they may want to research the product more. That's where I'm going with this.

 

I also never claimed to know a date on the expansion of the MiVitality line, just that it was in the works and they want to do so. I was given no dates or estimates, nor did I hint at that in my above replies. I only know that they are expanding it with whole food supplementational products, focusing on nutrition from whole living foods.

 

Thanks for posting Narelle's reply.

 

Again, please don't get me wrong, I strongly believe In-liven should be a part of everyone's diet. But to call it a multi-vitmain or the only thing someone needs is not correct. It may be all you need, or all Narelle needs, but not the average consumer. There are many people out there that need more than just In-Liven in their diet to return to proper health. In-Liven is an amazing start on that journey, no doubt.

 

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