Nutrient Cofactors
Nutrients all work together as a system.
Some vitamins and minerals are needed directly in combination.
Some are needed more indirectly or generally to help utilize nearly everything. General purpose nutrients are potassium, sodium, magnesium.
Some deficiencies are the result of lack of cofactors to utilize nutrients. In those cases, you could have an excess of unutilized nutrients along with deficiency symptoms.
Calcium requires magnesium and many other nutrients. Calcium in bones and teeth occurs as calcium phosphate. A lack of calcium in bones is osteoporosis. If that is from a lack of cofactors one could have excess calcium depositing between bones like vertebrae for spinal stenosis. Calcium can deposit in arteries when not utilized. An absolute deficiency in dietary input is simpler.
Iron requires copper that requires magnesium that requires potassium and sodium in balance, etc. A lack of utilizable iron for red blood cells can lead to excess iron accumulating. That's why isolated iron injections often make people feel sick. Iron oxidizes--it's rust.
Cholesterol and sulfur work together for many things. On the skin these two combine with sun to form hormone (vitamin) D. Cholesterol sulfate lines the blood vessel walls, the glycocalyx, to create the negative pole of electrical charge that makes the blood flow along with the heart as a pump. (Hight or low blood pressure is the result of low electical charge requiring the heart to do more work. I have many articles on this you can find: click, click.)Many electrons in the blood are created by sunlight on the skin that moves through the blood to the the mitocondira of every cell.
The glycocalyx protects vessels from hemorage and stroke. Cholesterol deposits in arteries can result from lack of sulfur to utlized them. Sulfur helps recycle cholesterol.
Nitric oxide is necessary to synethisize cholesterol and sulfur. NO also provide the positive charge in the center of the blood vessels to matach the negative from cholesterol sulfate on the lining.
Ntiric oxidize is disrupted by glyphosate, the herbiside used in much GMO food and sprayed in lawns commonly. This initiates a chain reaction of problems. You can call toxins negative cofactors. (Toxic Legacy, Stephanie Seneff)
Vitamin B2 is an important cofactor of other B vitamins like B1 and B9 folate. The interactions between Bs and methylation processes are complex so it's better to use whole food that has those relationshps worked out rather than guess the right amount from mulitple bottles. For B vitamins I favor whole foods with all the nutrients that are better utlized than synthetic supplements, with some exceptions.
The complexity of nutrient and toxin interactions is endless. This is why difficult health problems don't get solved: systems complexity. Just trying one thing at a time does not always work.
Some vitamins and minerals are needed directly in combination.
Some are needed more indirectly or generally to help utilize nearly everything. General purpose nutrients are potassium, sodium, magnesium.
Some deficiencies are the result of lack of cofactors to utilize nutrients. In those cases, you could have an excess of unutilized nutrients along with deficiency symptoms.
Calcium requires magnesium and many other nutrients. Calcium in bones and teeth occurs as calcium phosphate. A lack of calcium in bones is osteoporosis. If that is from a lack of cofactors one could have excess calcium depositing between bones like vertebrae for spinal stenosis. Calcium can deposit in arteries when not utilized. An absolute deficiency in dietary input is simpler.
Iron requires copper that requires magnesium that requires potassium and sodium in balance, etc. A lack of utilizable iron for red blood cells can lead to excess iron accumulating. That's why isolated iron injections often make people feel sick. Iron oxidizes--it's rust.
Cholesterol and sulfur work together for many things. On the skin these two combine with sun to form hormone (vitamin) D. Cholesterol sulfate lines the blood vessel walls, the glycocalyx, to create the negative pole of electrical charge that makes the blood flow along with the heart as a pump. (Hight or low blood pressure is the result of low electical charge requiring the heart to do more work. I have many articles on this you can find: click, click.)Many electrons in the blood are created by sunlight on the skin that moves through the blood to the the mitocondira of every cell.
The glycocalyx protects vessels from hemorage and stroke. Cholesterol deposits in arteries can result from lack of sulfur to utlized them. Sulfur helps recycle cholesterol.
Nitric oxide is necessary to synethisize cholesterol and sulfur. NO also provide the positive charge in the center of the blood vessels to matach the negative from cholesterol sulfate on the lining.
Ntiric oxidize is disrupted by glyphosate, the herbiside used in much GMO food and sprayed in lawns commonly. This initiates a chain reaction of problems. You can call toxins negative cofactors. (Toxic Legacy, Stephanie Seneff)
Vitamin B2 is an important cofactor of other B vitamins like B1 and B9 folate. The interactions between Bs and methylation processes are complex so it's better to use whole food that has those relationshps worked out rather than guess the right amount from mulitple bottles. For B vitamins I favor whole foods with all the nutrients that are better utlized than synthetic supplements, with some exceptions.
The complexity of nutrient and toxin interactions is endless. This is why difficult health problems don't get solved: systems complexity. Just trying one thing at a time does not always work.
