Hi:
I'm going to voice an opinion and don't have any references to put in this post at the present, so this is off the top of my head and is a result of my own recent research on it.
A body that's been sick for a long time is very deficient in nutrients. Magnesium is one everyone seems to be low in. Dr. Billie Sahley of the Pain and Stress Center in San Antonio, Texas, for one, has done reasearch on this and says this to be fact. Magnesium citrate is a form of magnesium that is well absorbed. We havent been able to absorb calcium for a long time if the colon is dirty. The parasites have robbed us of many nutrients for years, and candida is a parasite that does this very well, too. There's been an imbalance in the good germs and the bad ones for a long time, so the food hasn't been digested properly so we havent' been getting the proper nutrients for a long time.
Enzymes are necessary in the body for every rection that takes place. All the minerals and vitamins are dependent on systemic enzymes in order to be utilized. So I have a question is about systemic enzymes, too. The body has to have enough systemic enzymes to have enough digestive enzymes. I haven't entirely answered that question for myself yet.
I've had some bad muscle spasm at about a year into this program before I started supplementating heavily with the green superfoods. And, I have used the liquid Magchlor that works fast. Muscle twitches are a sign of low magnesium. My conclusion is that the diet needs to be supplemented with quality, bioavailable forms of all these nutrients all the way thru this program or a person is going to get weak. I think this hasn't been emphasized enough. The nutritional part has to be attended to or we are going to feel the results of the deficiencies.
I might get some who disagree with me about relying completely on organic foods for all necessary nutrients. Even if the foods are organic, they still do not have the nutrients in them they had years ago to supply even a healthy body with what it needs. We would have to eat dozens more bowls of spinach, for instance, to get the nutrients we got out of one bowl in the mid 1940's. Organic foods have many more nutrients than supermarket raw foods and not so many chemical contaminations, but the nutrients just aren't there anymore to properly sustain a healthy body, to say nothing about getting a body that's been sick for a long time back on track. This comes from some recent studies I have been looking into on, for instance, vegetables.
IMO everyone needs to supplement their diet with some kind of whole food nutrients that have been grown and extracted unde optimum conditions and so they meet the requirements and actually have what the label says they contain.
For sure, the raw, organic food have the enzymes that help with digestion and other functions of the body, but they no longer have the amount of nutrients we need. Most people aren't fortunate enough to have their own gardens and controlt he quality of soil their food grows in.
Maybe I'll have more information on this later. I think the topic deserves some consideration. I'd like to see others come up with some information/research on this, especially Doc.