Author and Nutritionist David Wolfe Discusses Nutritional Myths

This interview is an excerpt from Kevin Gianni'sresearch exactly whose getting the results of
Fountain of Youth Summit, which can be found at Inremineralizing their bones and you'll find it's people
this excerpt, David Wolfe shares on the myths aboutwho are not taking these forms of calcium that are
calcium and life changing MSM.toxic, which is the oyster shell calcium and to some
The Fountain of Youth World Summit with Daviddegree even coral calcium.
Wolfe, nutrition authority and author of SunfoodKevin: Now, bones are alkaline and doesn't the acidity
Success System.of meats and sugars - does that eat away at the
Kevin: Let's take another turn here and let's talk abone? I mean has that been proven or is that just a
little bit about some of the common things thattheory that I think I have, you know?
people are experiencing nowadays and maybe if youDavid: Well, that's a great question and that's the
can just give some suggestions on what they can doother side of the equation about osteoporosis. One is
to help them out. I know that, to start, we'll startwe've got to make sure we get the right nutrition to
with osteoporosis. A lot of women are concernedbuild strong bones. The other side of the equation is
about osteoporosis and they're concerned aboutwe've got to make sure we are doing things that
calcium and taking these calcium pills. You know, whataren't hurting our bones. Eating lots of sugar is one of
are some of the pros and cons of that?the worse things we can do to our overall health of
David: Okay, well the nations that consume the mostour teeth, which are living bones and to the density
calcium, the United States, Canada and theof our bones because when we take in lots of sugar
Scandinavian countries, have the worse osteoporosisour body has to use calcium, it has to pull calcium out
and that's because our theory of mineralization or ourof the bones to buffer or neutralize the intense
theory of nutrition is incorrect. The general theory isacidity of the sugar. Calcium is highly alkaline, as you
that a hundred years ago they started looking atstated. Our bones are alkaline and, therefore, alkaline
people's bones. They found out that, oh my god;minerals are used whenever we're exposed to real
these bones are made out of calcium. When peoplestrong acids. Sugar is a very strong acid. I mean, you
don't have enough bone density the thought is, ohknow, we used to dissolve the corrosion on our
they just have to eat more calcium because that'sbattery terminals of our bus by dumping soda pop
what builds bones. Calcium does not build bones andonto it because that sugar just dissolves and the
that is one of the biggest misconceptions ever and itphosphoric acid just dissolves all the corrosion right on
actually goes to the real core of our problems withthe battery terminal. I mean you don't' want to be
science. And that is the human body is a complexputting that in your body. That's dangerous.
biological machine of an unbelievable of mystery. AndKevin: Let's get into supplements little bit. And you
there is strong evidence that indicates that if you eatwalk into a health food store and there are literally
some of the calcium, let's say it's calcium from coralthousands of them. How do you get through them
calcium, for example, oyster shell calcium. That it isto find the ones that help with weight loss, and
almost impossible to get that stuff into your boneslongevity, is really what I think the fountain of youth
to increase bone density. The amount of increasingis all about? Which ones of those are the best? I
bone density, at best, is 1 or 2%. It is not goodmean rhodiola, turmeric, cinnamon. I mean which ones
enough.are the ones that people should be focusing on, not
What increases bone density? Well, it turns out it'snecessarily take but should be focusing on?
two other minerals and that is silicon and magnesium.David: That's such an excellent question. My job is to
Now, the best natural source of magnesium is cacaobasically guide people into health food stores and
and cacao is known to be good for your teeth. Increate order out of chaos. There are so many things.
fact, there are chemicals in cacao that kill theOkay, well the most important thing, in my opinion,
organism Streptococci mutans that cause cavities.that you can buy in a health food store in that
And, in fact, those extracts of the chocolate aredepartment is going to be vitamin C.
now going to be showing up in toothpaste all overKevin: Okay. In what form?
the world.David: Well, there's different forms. Now, I
Kevin: No kidding?recommend that you start experimenting, moving
David: That's amazing. That to me is just such aaway from synthetic forms of vitamin C or ascorbic
dramatic irony.acid, which is still beneficial, still good for you, and
Kevin: Wow.moving towards powdered, really high vitamin C
David: All along chocolate has been good for yourplants. For example, you can get acerola cherry. It's a
teeth. It's the sugar that's been bad but even then,tropical berry that is really high in vitamin C. It's like 1
even then, studies have been done on people whoor 2% vitamin C and basically what they do is they
eat chocolate even with the sugar and it's beengrow these berries. They dry them and they powder
found with a study done in Scandinavia on this. It'sthem down and the encapsulate them or put them in
been found that even then that people who eata glass jar and sell them in health food stores as
chocolate have been teeth health than people whovitamin C. Now, that's a real great way to get lots of
don't. To me that's amazing. But let's get on to siliconvitamin C natural with all the cofactors. Vitamin C
because this is the mineral that is difficult to get inneeds cofactors like rutin and bioflavonoids that are
today's diet. What is silicon? It's a mineral. You get itall naturally present in those powders, like acerola
in the skin of cucumbers. It's in the skin of bellcherry. You can either take it supplementally as
peppers. It's the skin of tomatoes. It's in certaincapsules or you add it onto your smoothies. You can
special herbs, which I'm going to name and you canliterally put it in your water that you drink in your
drink this as a tea or take it in supplemental form andmorning and it kind of sweetens the water. It
you will notice that it helps with your bone density.sweetens the water but doesn't sugarize the water.
And here are the herbs. One of them is called horseKevin: Gotcha.
tail, horse tail and it's not a horse's tail. It's actually anDavid: Vitamin C is sweet but not sugary. So it
herb. Another one is nettle. Stinging nettles havemakes your morning water easier to drink. So that's
been eaten by the druids in the U.K. for thousands ofone thing, vitamin C. The next thing is, what I believe
years and it's one of the most important foods toto be, the greatest discovery in the last -- probably
eat if you know how to do it or if you juice it or youin the last hundred years in the field of nutrition other
can just dry it and make a tea out of it, which isthan vitamin C and enzymes and that is sulfur, MSM,
what I'm recommending; horse tail, nettle, oat straw.Methylsulfonylmethane. MSM is a biologically available
The oat seed of the oat grass has a little strawform of sulfur that's naturally found in wild food,
around it. It has a little coating. It's the seed capsule.untended food. We don't really have access to that
That oat straw is one of the richest sources ofhardly at all any more. I mean, almost all our food is
silicon. You can buy it in health food stores. You cangrown on farms for us. It's not being watered
get in as extracts in health food stores.naturally by the rain. I'm talking about the natural
You can get it raw and make your own tea out of it.sulfur that's produced in the oceans that helps create
You combine those three together and you wantclouds, then drops them on the land that we need
you can add alfalfa, which is also a great source ofnutritionally in order to produce flexible collagen. Now
silicon. You can either make a tea out of that or youthat in the world does that mean? It means that
can just eat those any way you can find them. Andsulfur produces flexible skin and flexible muscle tissue.
you will find if you do three strong teas of that perIt stops, in essence, wrinkling and increases the
day you will start increasing your bone density butjuiciness of the collagen and the discs, the joints that
how? It's the silicon. Now, how does silicon increasebasically separate our bones from each other. On top
calcium? I mean that doesn't make sense. It'sof all that, it increases the growth of our hair, our
because our theory of minerals is incorrect. Ournails, so that we have thicker, richer growth of our
atomic theory is incorrect. And that is if you eathair and nails. This can all be easily experienced within
silicon rich food your body, through the power oftwo weeks of taking MSM.
enzymes transmutates it into calcium, turns the siliconKevin: It's going to grow like weeds.
into calcium. That was discovered by a great FrenchDavid: It's really incredible and people who want thick
researcher by the name of Louis Curvan, a Nobelquick growth of their hair and nails are almost always
prize nominee, who wrote five books and 5,000completely shocked by how powerful MSM can be.
pages of research on just this particular subject; howYou can get it in capsule form. You can get it in a
silicon and calcium are related to each other.powder form. It's available in every single health food
It was very well honored in France and he is verystore now. Once you start looking into it, and
intimately entwined in the science of what's going onespecially when you take it, here's what you're going
in France; but because of the language barrier histo find out. You're going to find it's one of the most
research really never made it to the English-speakingimportant things you've ever taken. I have randomly
nations.polled hundreds of people about MSM. I almost
Kevin: Interesting when we're still taking calcium pillsalways to a T here from people who have taken it
from, you know, sea shells and everything.before. Oh, MSM changed my life. I've heard that
David: I recommend to god, you know, this is sodozens of times, that exact quote. Oh, MSM changed
engrained in our minds about calcium that if you aremy life.
confused about this, get on the Internet and