Essential Nutrients Quantities and Ratios
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A problem that has bugged me since I started thinking about health is that of RDA for vitamins and minerals.
We don’t seem to really know what the proper amount of micronutrients are for a person. The government recommendations are based on statistical averages rather than a fundamental bioenergetic basis. Some or maybe most of the recommendations seem to be lowballing it. I don’t think it’s acceptable to blindly use statistical averages and basically guesses to judge the proper amount of vitamin D or molybdenum or zinc for a given person.
Has anyone attempted to figure out the necessary amount of nutrients based on bioenergetic principles? Would the metabolic pathways chart be a place to start?
On top of that, we have to be careful about the ratios of each nutrient to all the others i.e. copper to zinc, vitamin D to vitamin K, etc.
Has anyone tried to work this out? The only literature I have been able to find has come from the mineral balancing people. It’s still very much incomplete.
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@DakotaWorrell You will never, ever be able to "figure this out". We all have different diet histories, activity levels, etc.
I think that as long as you're staying well under known toxic doses, you feel good, and you have some degree of balance between nutrients that are known to interact (ex. vitamin d, k,a; phosphorous:calcium, protein:carbs), that's about the best you can do.
