Most Recent Vitamins and Nutrients Articles

SHTF Survival: 7 Vitamins That Help Prevent Dental Emergencies

These seven vitamins can assist you in prolonging your overall health and dental health in a long-term emergency.

The 4 Most Likely Ways You Can Die If the SHTF

The die off from a long term disaster will not occur from hoards of zombies attacking your homestead. In reality, disaster survivors will more than likely die from four different types of conditions we take for granted today.

Be Nutrition Ready and Store Super Foods

Being nutrition ready means storing the right types of foods that will benefit you in the long run. Storing super foods will help your body prevent disease and long term degenerative ailments such as most cancers. Ironincally, most super foods are some of our favorite foods, so stocking up on them for an emergency food supply should be a no brainer.

Essential Emergency Preps: Vitamin Infused Powders

In any survival situation, having a constant supply of vitamins can help a individual’s mental clarity, nervous system and immune system. This vitamin alternative has many benefits and is a great prep to add to a bug out bag or camping gear.

9 Things to Consider Before You Ever Grow a Survival Garden

Survival gardening will be labor intensive, and large amounts of energy (sweat) will be needed to make a survival garden work. In exchange for your energy and time, you will want a survival garden that will provide your family abundantly with food. Keeping certain factors into consideration before starting a survival garden will help you get the most out your garden, provide you and your family with the healthiest vegetable varieties, and help you find the easiest types of vegetables to grow.

To Your Health Series: Types of Medicinal Mushrooms

Eastern medicine values preventative medicine over reactive medicine. For centuries, cultures have long considered certain mushrooms to be responsibile for their prosperity and health. Their use of these mushrooms contributed to longer lifetimes, less health issues, more youthful appearances, and increased energy levels. Read more to understand the healing properties that mushrooms can provide, as well as learn some of the most popular medicinal mushrooms available.

To Your Health Series: How Medicinal Mushrooms Can Benefit Your Immune System

In traditional Eastern medicine, mushrooms are the drug of choice and hailed for their medicinal powers. Only recently have Westerners discovered the untapped medicinal source from mushrooms. More notably, certain mushrooms, such as shiitake and reishi mushrooms have antiviral and antibiotic properties that could come in handy during a long term emergency, especially if added to a survival medicinal garden. Thus providing a person with an immense amount of nutrition and medical uses.

Make Your Own Survival Bars

For $3.50, you can make a 2000 calorie bar (equivalent to a Daltrex bar) for your emergency preparedness gear. These survival bars last indefinately (if packaged correctly) and would make excellent additions to a person’s bug out bag, emergency vehicle or preparedness kit. In an emergency situation, having these bars handy could save a life.

Simply Sprouting

Sprouts are a delicious alternative to expensive bottles of vitamins which can lose their nutritional value as well as expire within a year of it being purchased. In fact, sprouts provide the highest amount of vitamins, minerals, proteins and enzymes of any of food per unit of calorie.

Vitamins, Minerals, and Survival

If you are ever faced with a true life and death survival situation, do you know what to eat to keep you alive? Are you willing to eat whatever it takes to keep you alert and moving forward? Survival and nutrition go hand in hand. If you are in a survival situation, you must know specifically what types of food your body needs in order to thrive. Reading this article will increase your chances of survival.