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Thought this was an interesting article. We do customize our eyes with glasses...why NOT vitamins.

Customized Vitamins and Urine Testing Why should anyone want to take a "urine test" for the sake of getting vitamins? Well, there are a couple of reasons.
First is the fact that in order to optimize your health, you need vitamin supplements--and those supplements should be tailored to your unique person and health situation. Secondly, without testing, or if you only do a questionnaire test, you cannot get the most highly customized vitamin supplement to meet those health needs. Our unique health and vitamin needs are rooted in some variables that we have in common and others that are completely unique, in sum, to each individual. Shared traits that impact on our health include age, gender, weight-to-height ratio, and ethnicity. (Of course, not all people share those traits, but there are large groups of people in each instance who do.) But then there are the uniquely individual traits: genetics; lifestyle; personal experiences; environment; diet; emotional makeup; metabolism; and stress levels. While these variable traits might be extremely similar between different individuals, no two are exactly alike for anyone, and the different total combination's that these produce are even more dissimilar. The best indicator of exactly what you need for your unique vitamin supplementation is to be found in various levels of chemical compounds that will show up in your urine. Your urine sample, for instance, shows your metabolic end-production and the level of nitrous oxide in your blood and tissues. Nitrous oxide levels in the body are incredibly important, as research and discoveries about it in the 1990s proved. This chemical has a major impact on the health of the functioning of various detoxification, immunity, and circulatory systems and organs, such as the health of your liver and heart. Other metabolic end-product measurements can tell scientists whether or not your cellular tissues are getting the right amount of nutrients, and if not which nutrients need raising and basically to what degree. Consider that there are toxins all around us and within various products that we use all the time. Our liver and kidneys clean those out of our bodies, however. But what if they start to function less than optimally? Well, they have to be repaired. And there is simply no better or more efficient way of repairing and rejuvenating them than to feed them the right amounts of nutrients that they need to grow powerful again. Yet, how do you know that specific chemical nutrient mixture? Without urine testing, you don't--you will be taking one-size-fits-all, mass-produced vitamin supplements that only have a hit-and-miss chance of being exactly what you most need. Or you'll have to undergo major surgery, which is costly, invasive, and not even truly getting at the root problem. There are just too many different factors that make up your particular health needs, of your liver and of the rest of your body, for you to settle for those umbrella-like vitamin supplementations . You are you--you are not anyone else. You need the vitamin mixture that is best for you. The scientists involved use urine testing to find out what that is, just like doctors use it to determine other things about your health and lifestyle. It's really quite simple! ------------------------ Duncan Wierman applies a holistic approach to health care which means accepting responsibility for managing our own health.

Mac McCarthy
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