Module 7: Core Content: Part 4: Vitamins
Below you’ll find a variety of resources you can use to assist you in creating lessons, sessions, and handouts for your clients to help them understand which foods to choose for a vitamin-rich diet, and what they can do if supplementation is needed.
There is a series of videos that explain, in client language, what vitamins are, how to get them through foods, how to assess vitamin status and how to know when to supplement. I suggest you watch the videos and use as a guide in talking to your clients, whether in groups or one-to-one. Then work through the action steps.
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2 | Watched Food Sources Video | |
3 | Watched Supplementation Video | |
4 | Watched Assessment Video | |
5 | Reviewed Action Steps and documents included with them, and thought about how to use with clients | |
6 | Watched Advanced Video: "The Vitamin Game" | |
7 | Watched Advanced Video: Vitamin C | |
8 | Watched Advanced Video: Vitamin D |
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Advanced, In-Depth Resources
Watch the Video Series To Become Comfortable
Teaching Your Clients about Vitamins
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Action Plan for Balancing Your Client’s Vitamin Intake
#1: Assess your client’s vitamin status.
Use this vitamin assessment as a guideline for creating one of your own, or use the PDF nutrient assessment chart to ask the questions needed to determine their status and/or imbalances.
Nutrient Balance: Vitamin Assessment: This health assessment will examine your client’s potential levels of vitamins, including A, B, B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, B7, B9, B12, and C.
Nutrient Assessment Chart: For each nutrient, you’ll find a list of conditions/symptoms that may indicate imbalance for your client. Share this with them.
#2: Rank your client’s vitamin imbalance(s).
Using the results from the online “Vitamin Balance Assessment” above, make a list of the vitamins that show imbalance for your client, in order from highest score to lowest. Share this with them.
#3: Choose vitamin-rich foods to correct your client’s imbalances.
Review the Vitamin Density Food Charts from World’s Healthiest Foods with your client to determine the foods for them to focus on to correct deficiencies.
Vitamin Density Food Charts – WHF: For each nutrient, you’ll find a list of food sources ranked excellent, very good, and good for your client.
#4: Have your client take supplements, if desired/indicated.
Looking at your client’s ranked list of deficiencies, consider short-term supplementation for them for the vitamins with high scores, and/or for those where they have many symptoms related to deficiency.
#5: If supplementing, help your client choose the highest quality supplements.
In our blood sugar balancing program, Sweet Spot Solution, we list brands and guidelines for choosing high-quality supplements. You can refer to the Sweet Spot Solution supplement guide below for ideas of where they can buy good quality supplements. I suggest you create a list of your own, take out those you don’t use and add your favorites.
About Your Clients Using Supplements and Brands (Excerpt from the guide above)
Note of Caution:
Not everyone reacts the same to every supplement, and it’s certainly possible that your client’s body is sensitive and does not do well with some of the recommended supplements. Please have your clients use these as directed, and note our medical disclaimer, as well as your own, at the very bottom of the program pages, along with your own program. Before you have your client make a large purchase, it may be wise to have them try these supplements in smaller amounts, and see how they react. Once you are comfortable that the supplements are working well for them, you can feel comfortable having them increase doses and order larger quantities if you feel they need to be on them long-term.
For all supplements, recommend they buy the purest they can find. In terms of bioavailability, liquids are better than powders which are better than capsules which are better than tablets.
Liquids → Powders → Capsules → Tablets
Some nutrients are not available as liquids or powders either because of the taste or because they are too delicate and need the protection of a capsule. Tablets usually contain fillers and binders to hold the materials together and are the least desirable.
A note about the suggested brands:
The list of brands and items in this guide is not an exhaustive one. The brands listed are those I’ve personally used, for myself and with clients, and are from manufacturers I trust. That does not mean they are the only brands that work. This is also not an exhaustive list of helpful supplements you can use with your clients.
If there isn’t currently a specific suggested brand listed for a supplement below, these are brands I generally recommend:
Premier Research Labs- HealthForce Nutritionals
- Vitamin Code
- Pure Encapsulations
- Allergy Research Group
- Thorne Research
- Seeking Health
- Restorative Formulas
- Custom Probiotics
Extras for Going Deeper with Your Client
Use these resources for more in depth information, for sharing with your client as needed.
“The Vitamin Game, Micro Nutrients – Macro Impact” with Dr. Craig Sommers
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Vitamin C: In-Depth
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Vitamin C Calibration: Use this document for a protocol to determine your bowel tolerance dose of Vitamin C.
Vitamin D: In-Depth
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