Geared to the ‘Step-up Table’

The products from Plantina are seamlessly geared to the ‘Step-up Table’ as developed for healthy people by the Ortho Institute. The first two steps in this table help everyone to remain in healthy condition. The third step applies to exceptional circumstances. 

• Step 1. Eat a healthy and varied diet. Preferably choose organic foodstuffs. 

• Step 2. Supplement your diet daily with the Plantina Multi and Plantina Vitamin C 1000 mg. Also take Plantina Trimare if you eat little or no fatty fish. This ‘package’ is known as the Plantina Basic Supplement. It contains all the vitamins and minerals you need every day. Additional vitamin C is essential because man is one of the few living beings unable to produce its own vitamin C. We lack a certain enzyme, the gulonolactonoxidase. If we did have this enzyme, in comparison with animals, we would produce some 2000 to 3000 mg of vitamin C every day (calculated on the basis of body weight). Under certain circumstances we in fact even need more vitamin C. Vitamin C fulfils a number of essential tasks in the body. It functions as an antioxidant (free radical catcher) and strengthens our natural resistance. One orange a day contains approximately 50 mg vitamin C. This is the amount necessary to just avoid contracting scurvy. The Health Council recommends an RDA of 70 mg. Linus Pauling recommends at least 1000 to 3000 mg vitamin C per day for healthy people. This dosage, according to him, is sufficient to create an optimum molecular environment for body cells. Vitamin C is one of the least toxic substances present on the earth. It was nonetheless claimed for years that too much vitamin C caused kidney stones. All nutritionists now agree that you cannot develop kidney stones as a result of taking additional vitamin C. Nonetheless, it will be many years before this old wives’ tale has been finally eradicated. 
   
• Step 3. Take additional food supplements in exceptional circumstances. Do you travel widely? Then you should perhaps seriously consider taking Plantina Yolac, our highly concentrated probiotic. Yolac improves the bacterial balance in the stomach and effectively supports the immune system. It can be stored at room temperature making it easy to take with you. As you get older, you may wish to give your heart additional energy. In that case, Plantina L-carnitine and Plantina Coenzyme Q10 are highly recommended. L-carnitine and Coenzyme Q10 are amongst the substances in the body which we start to produce less as we get older. They help the heart to correctly fulfil its function – namely pumping blood around the body. As a result, they also support blood supply to the other organs and muscles. People who place serious demands on their body, such as sportsmen and women, may also benefit from the third member of our ‘energy trio’: Plantina Ribose.

If you are suffering from any illness, you should always consult your physician whether you are permitted to take such preparations as the Plantina Multi or Vitamin C 1000 mg. Patients with special dietary settings, such as diabetes patients, heart and thyroid gland patients and people with epilepsy, should not take high-dosage preparations without consultation. The Plantina products are first and foremost intended for healthy people who wish to supplement their daily diet.