Healing time depends upon the cellular
time clock. Read below for a few examples of how long healing may take
place for different parts of your body.
...Unlike
drugs, nutrients do not have rapid effects. NO QUICK FIX. The business
of nutrition is to build a better body. That has to wait on
Nature to turn over body cells. A BLOOD CELL LASTS 60 – 120
DAYS. In 3 – 4 months your
whole blood supply is completely replaced. In 6 months almost all
the proteins in your bones die and are replaced, even the DNA OF
YOUR GENES. In a year all your bones and even the enamel of your
teeth is replaced, constructed entirely out of the nutrients
YOU EAT.
This time curve is well
illustrated by the course of deficiency diseases. If I remove
the Vitamin C from your diet, within 4 weeks blood vitamin
C will drop to zero. But, you will see no symptoms of disease
at 4 weeks. You have to wait until enough of the healthy cells
have been replaced by unhealthy cells. It is another 12 weeks
before the symptoms of scurvy starts to ravage your body.
So
when you implement an optimal nutrition program, don’t
expect rapid results. In one of our studies at the
Colgan Institute, runners were supplemented to try to improve
their hemoglobin, hematrocrit, and red blood cell count.
But after one month of supplementation, there was no improvement
at all. After 6 months,
however, all 3 indices were significantly increased!
Think of it this way, If you take a neglected
house plant and start feeding and watering it, the leaves may PERK
UP A BIT from the improved nutrition. But you have to wait for the
old leaves to die off and new leaves to grow before you get a really
healthy plant. It is the same with the human body. When you start feeding
it better, you have to wait on...your body to grow new improved cells
in the improved nutrient medium. After
18 years in sport nutrition, the shortest program we will give anyone
is 6 months!
