Vitamins & Minerals
Micronutrients are essential for DNA repair, immune function, and the health of every cell. Precise optimization of these simple vitamins and minerals—as renowned scientists demonstrate—maximizes our body's capacity.
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It is truly a shame that in the 21st century we still need to discuss the immense importance of micronutrients for our health and wellbeing. Our edubily "field study" has been running for nearly seven, soon eight years now. Every day we receive countless messages with often similar themes: additional vitamins and the like have become indispensable.
People themselves know exactly when something does them good or when they're supplying something they previously lacked. Incidentally, this is how the perhaps most renowned biochemist in the world, Bruce Ames (now 93 years old!), came to his discoveries. In a laboratory experiment decades ago, he simply and coincidentally observed that his cells, when starved of folic acid, looked just like they did after radiation exposure: the DNA was fragmented, literally broken. When this happens in our body, cells die — or alternatively, they become sick or behave malignantly (cancer).
Fortunately, Ames also knows that our cells possess an enormous repertoire of healing mechanisms. He explains in one of his more recent lectures that "magnesium is contained in every DNA-repair enzyme and in many hundreds of other enzymes." He further names zinc, which "is contained in 2000 enzymes — in proteins there are so-called zinc fingers that recognize DNA sequences. Moreover, zinc is part of the cancer defense protein p53..."
When you see how compellingly and vividly he — such a renowned professor — explains this, you simply must understand how significant these substances must be for the functioning of our biochemical factory. We addressed a striking example in an article from 2015 that is no longer publicly accessible on our platform. There we explain that the aforementioned zinc-dependent anti-cancer protein p53 is mutated in approximately 50% of tumor cases and no longer functions — the wonder: numerous studies show that its functionality can be restored with additional zinc supplementation. Is that really a wonder? Or is it rather the normal state for the actual wonder we always underestimate — the body itself?
Today there exist, published often in the world's most prestigious scientific databases, "mitochondrial cocktails" — we know that mitochondria are at the center of current research because these tiny "powerhouses of the cell" not only produce life energy for us but also keep cells healthy and vital. What's in these cocktails? Often the simplest micronutrients, even documented by the US Department of Health and Human Services. The groundbreaking, yet apparently still unknown "Bredesen Protocol for the reversal of cognitive decline" by Prof. Bredesen, who is a professor of neurology at the School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), is based on micronutrients. There you can read, among others:
So here a precise blueprint is being provided — the reason: restore brain performance. The more or less amusing thing about it is that you can apply this blueprint to virtually all other areas of health. Because it's clear: what optimizes brain function also optimizes immune function, muscle function... and every other bodily function. You cannot say this about medication. That is, so to speak, the magic behind it: give your body what it needs and it will try to reach its genetic maximum. We often do the opposite and deliberately try to achieve the genetic minimum, for whatever reason.
How do we actually "translate" the effects and properties of micronutrients? A selection:
Ideally, you picture the individual effects of each micronutrient just as vividly. That also ensures you no longer underestimate them. Especially important now, for example vitamin A(ntibodies): there's a reason why vitamin A is part of a food (liver) that we call the "strongest immune booster". Unknown to most, unfortunately. And society wonders why, especially in winter.
