Cellular nutrition was a completely new concept for Mel until she discovered its amazing power to help her fibromyalgia.

After nearly20 years of living with muscle and joint pain that tore at her body, invaded her sleep, and sapped the energy from her life, she is now almost completely pain free! Mel finds it hard to believe that not one of her doctors told her about the role of getting optimal cellular nutrition in helping her fibromyalgia.

Her doctors, after doing multiple tests, most often said, "I can find no cause for your pain. You will have to live with it." Then they would hand her a prescription for antidepressants and pain medication.

Well… they were wrong. Now after six months of taking nutritional supplements rich in antioxidants, vitamin B cofactors, and minerals plus eating more whole foods like fruits and vegetable, she testifies, "I can sleep, I’ve got energy to spare and my pain is almost a memory! I spent thousands of dollars visiting doctors and taking antidepressants without a wit of help. It’s hard to believe that a simple thing like making sure my cells get the nutrients they need is all that I had to do."

Cellular nutrition describes the nutrients cells need for health. Cells are your body’s basic building blocks. Every tissue, organ, and substance in your body is composed of cells. Though tiny, they contain within them a whole world of creative activity important for life. For example, a cell structure called the mitochondria acts as the furnace of the cell generating energy for your body. Cells need vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and other nutrients to function.

Myron Wentz, PhD, a noted microbiologist and immunologist, was acutely aware of the cell’s need for optimal nutrition in his work to develop tests for disease causing viruses. His research required the formulation of nutrients that would maximize the health and life of human cells in test tubes.

Later, recognizing the important of his discoveries in cell nutrition for health, he turned his creative genius from disease detection to disease prevention. He created supplements containing essential nutrients for optimal cellular nutrition, thus popularizing the term.

Cellular nutrition fights oxidative stress… a major contributor to advanced aging and chronic degenerative diseases.

Optimal cellular nutrition can save your life!

The "root" cause of over 70 chronic degenerative diseases is "oxidative stress," according to Ray Strand, MD, nutritional medicine expert. He bases this statement on a careful review of reports found in the New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, British Lancet, and Annuals of Internal Medicine. These diseases sap your life and can kill. They include heart disease, cancer, arthritis, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, multiple sclerosis, and the list goes on.

What’s oxidative stress?

Oxidative stress results from excess free radicals. Andrew Weil, MD, explains that free radicals are a chemist’s term for unstable molecules capable of stripping electrons from other molecules in their effort to become stable. They occur naturally during metabolism, the process that turns food into energy by combining it with oxygen from the air you breathe.

Free radicals become harmful when stress, environmental pollutants, or eating unhealthy foods like trans-fats increase their numbers. "When you produce more free radicals than you can manage, you create oxidative stress. Oxygen is essential for life itself; however, it is also inherently dangerous for our existence. The same process that causes a cut apple to turn brown or metal to rust also causes your body to rust inside," Dr. Strand, informs.

You are not defenseless though.

Antioxidants like vitamin C, vitamin E, mixed carotenoids, and co-enzyme Q10 can neutralize free radicals. Dr. Strand says, "Balance is the key. You need to have enough antioxidants available to handle the number of free radicals produced. Then you are able to prevent oxidative stress from occurring."

Your body can make some of its own antioxidants and you can get them from foods such as fruits and vegetables. However, you can’t get enough from these sources alone. You must supplement a healthy diet to get the optimal levels of these nutrients, according to nutritional experts such as Wentz, Weil, and Strand.

Choose Your Cellular Nutrition Supplement Wisely

Speaking as someone who has learned the hard way by wasting lots of money, buying supplements of poor quality, and even overdosing on one vitamin type causing deficiency in another… it’s important to chose your supplement wisely.

It’s easy to get confused with all the hype on individual nutrients and trying to figure out if a nutritional supplement is safe and of good quality. Nutritional supplement manufacturers only need to meet food quality standards. There is no guarantee required that the ingredients listed on the label are the same as those in the bottle.

What’s more, a nutritional supplement study in the Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmseutical Science found that more than half of the supplements tested did not disintegrate properly. That means even when taken, they weren’t available for the body…. They were going in the toilet.

Research using sources like Wentz, Weil, Strand, and Christiane Northup, MD reveals some common themes for choosing supplements that support optimal cellular nutrition.

Tips for choosing a cellular nutrition supplement:

• Look for a balanced blend of nutrients including antioxidants (like rutin, bioflavonoids, grape-seed extract, and olive extract), B-complex vitamins, D3, and minerals (like calcium, magnesium, selenium, chromium, manganese, vanadium, zinc, iodine, and copper).

• Make sure the minerals are chelated.

This involves wrapping the minerals in an amino acid to ensure proper absorption.

• Look for a vitamin E blend containing both natural vitamin E (D-alpha tocopherols) and tocotrienols to get the most benefit from this powerful antioxidant family.

• Look for evidence of Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) compliance on either the bottle or accompanying literature.

GMP indicates that the manufacturer complies with good quality standards, including using top quality ingredients. It indicates the same manufacturing practices as those used in the pharmaceutical industry. What’s on the label is really in the bottle.

• Expect to pay more than the bargain brand.

Good supplements use good quality ingredients… that cost more. It’s similar to buying organic or local grown food versus buying at the supermarket. You pay more but you get more.

• Refer to the NutriSearch Comparative Guide to Nutritional Supplements when choosing your supplement.

This handy resource provides an independent, unbiased rating of over 1500 nutritional supplements available in the US and Canada. Their rating, based on the recommended daily nutritional intakes from 12 nutritional authorities, includes balance and completeness of ingredients, potency, availability to the body, and quality of the manufacturing process along with other factors.

Your cells may be tiny, but they’re the basic building blocks of your body… and your health. Don’t let your cells go hungry or feed them crappy nutrients and food. Help them sing through optimal cellular nutrition.

Beat down oxidative stress, stop accelerated aging, and avoid getting a degenerative life sapping disease. Make sure you get optimal cellular nutrition today!