Monday, August 24, 2015

vitamins


VITAMINS

Would you pay $12 a year, a mere buck a month, to get supplemental vitamins to compliment your storage foods?  Okay, technically it will be more than that if you take vitamin C in mega-dose amounts which I do and recommend to you, but for a simple single multivitamin it is $12 a year.  Everyone is of course all jiggy with this and after reading this article will all run down to Wal-Mart because this is one of those so cheap insurance policies it would be retarded to pass it up.  The problem with Wal-Mart is that for the last half of a year, every time I look into getting another several bottles for my stockpile, the in stock ones all have the same summer of 2016 expiration date.  The same date as the bottles I bought awhile ago.  It is almost as if Wally buys a crapload of vitamins two years before expiration, then that is the only stock the stores carry until those 200 pill bottles are about 200 days away from the expiration date.  They must save a lot of money doing it that way, because if its one thing you can count on it is Wal-Mart endangering your health while they rip you off.  So, what to do?  Here is my plan for a four year stash of vitamin pills ( to be upgraded yearly so as to always have that amount of time ahead of you.  What?  You can’t spend $13 a year-a 400 pack of generic multi’s-to ensure better health?  Of course you can! ).

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First off, this must be complimented by sprouts, both to assure you get whatever vitamins aren’t yet discovered yet you still need and only fresh veggies can deliver them, and because a diet of stored foods blows.  Fresh veggies, even if they aren’t delivering adequate amounts of vitamins, still deliver enzymes only fresh, unprocessed, undead foods can.  The vitamin pills  just make sure you are getting more than enough as a supplement, and the sprouts provide the enzymes your body craves.  Okay, six bottles of Wal-Mart generic multivitamins cost $39.  That is 1200 pills.  During the first two years of ingestion, you are taking a pill every other day.  These are before or just after their expiration date and hence you should be getting close enough to full potency.  For the third and forth year, you go to one day.  This ensures you won’t overdose on fat soluble vitamins-the manufacture formulates them with this in mind to avoid lawsuits, and that even if the potency has been halved by time you should still be getting a bare minimum for better health.  Now, some of these vitamins are 300% of the daily recommended dose.  And these are water soluble so no toxicity issues exist.  But others are only 100%, so if you halve those doses you might be deficient in the dose.  Which is why you need either another vitamin to compliment it ( vitamin C I think being one of the most important- as an aside, note the expiration dates on C are far longer in the future, and I‘m not even sure if ascorbic acid has all that many dating issues.  I have several years of mega-dosage on hand and during the Apocalypse I can slightly cut back on my intake to make them last a decade or so ), but more importantly make sure to take those sprouts requirement seriously.

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If you have even more storage food on hand than four years, you had better look around for a better and more expensive multivitamins than Wal-Mart, where you know the expiration is further away.  Still, even at $2 a month for six years, the cost is high but not unreasonable. 

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13 comments:

  1. Vitamin deficiencies, in addition to outright malnutrition and hygiene (cleanliness) issues were the biggest killers of the past- and of the poorest people now.
    1) Clean water to drink
    2) Nutritionally required vitamins
    3) Calories
    4) Protein and essential amino acids.

    4 things. Cheap in first world countries today, easily stocked up on.
    Of course having a plan for fulfilling those needs when the stockpile runs out is also important.
    Humanure composting returns much of the essential trace substances to the land- I doubt anyone wants to eat anything grown directly in humanure, but growing a green composting crop from that to feed your animals or compost for the garden is not unreasonable.

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    1. Humanure just might be the only way to get ahead as an ag area.

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  2. Jim
    Vitamin C will break down when exposed to heat. It would be wise to keep it in a cool place out of sunlight.

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  3. not related to vitamins... though I still think you need to check out wheatgrass...

    repacking your primers!!!! http://sharpshooter-22lr-reloader.myshopify.com/products/prime-all-repriming-compound

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    1. Okay, exciting until you note the "out of stock"

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    2. Just sent you a message at your site - notify me when you are restocked and I will buy all of it. Thanks.

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  4. I never thought about the benefits of sprouts that thoroughly and you make great sense. Did you know you can buy pure bulk vitamin C powder that I believe will store forever. Buddy of mine bought a 10# container? Maybe #5, looks like a gallon or more. Would multivitamins store longer in the freezer so they would be fresh until the power goes out?

    You're on it today.

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    1. I'm not sure what degrades vitamins. The bottles keep sunlight out, and if stored cool, such as basement, will last longer. How long? Not sure if freezer storage extends that.

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    2. Freezers can cause condensation inside some containers, even unopened ones, and freezing can break apart some complex organic molecules. A very cold fridge (just above freezing) would probably be better, or any very cool temperature stable dark place.
      It will still degrade with time just more slowly, but should not become toxic just less potent. Single substance vitamins (like C, Calcium, Potassium, Magnesium, etc. ) should usually store better than the multi-vitamins.
      You will still need fresh foods on occasion for various micro nutrients, etc., so seeds to sprout is a good idea to store with your vitamins (dry dark cool lets seeds last longer too).

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  5. You Americans have an unhealthy (pun intended) obsession about vitamins.

    1- vitamins in pills are not easily processed by the body and most of them go to waste.
    Studies shows that the occurrence of cancer is higher in people that take vitamins pills (the famous guy that started the vitamin C overdose craze died of a cancer firmly believing that it would save him)

    2- there's enough vitamins in canned goods that you will not encounter problems (if at all) before 20 years, you will die of copper jacketed lead poisoning much sooner than that

    3- sprouts or green plants that you could find in the woods (provided you learned to recognize them) are all you need to keep healthy, even in a non collapse scenario

    This is funny how you don't believe anything the government says (rightly so imo) but you trust the vitamin myth that you could dispell in about 20 minutes of Google search.

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    1. If cancer is environmental, hereditary or age related, vitamins may be of little use. I don't view mega-dosing as a cure. I still, on rare occasions ( been almost three years now ) get sick. What the C does is reduce the effects on what I get. I'm not hit as hard and it clears faster than in others. It turbo-chargers my bodies natural abilities, that is all.

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    2. do you take it straight, or in a megadose as part of a chelation or liposomal-C???

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    3. I have no idea what that means so I'll say I take it straight.

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