It's a Team's Life

Vitamins

We are members of the Driver Solutions Health Council and one of our guest speakers was Todd Witthorne, CEO of the Cooper Institute on one our calls.   He talked at length about vitamins and why we are not getting what we need in our foods anymore.   He was very interesting and confirmed why we take the vitamins we do.   Todd also spoke about getting a blood test to see what our levels of Vitamin D are.   Todd sent us an article about Vitamin D where Dr. Greg Plotnikoff is quoted .

  “ The vitamin D epidemic has evolved largely because we now spend far          more time inside than outside. When we do go outside, we often cover up or use sunscreen. It is, sadly, “an indictment of our way of life,” Plotnikoff said. But this epidemic has a cheap and breathtakingly simple solution — awareness, for starters.  
Plotnikoff urges “safe sunning,” which means no burning. In winter, when no one who lives in Minnesota can get enough from the sun, most everyone should take supplements. To be sure you’re getting enough, he said, ask your doctor to do a blood test.
The payoff, he believes, is much bigger than ending an epidemic. It’s a bridge to a different medical philosophy altogether, one that embraces health, not disease, and the patient, not the treatment.
“This is what gets me going,” he said. “It does not require physician expertise. True primary care is self care.”

  Todd’s company, the Cooper Institute ( http://www.cooperinstitute.org/ ) is very involved in all forms of health.   They are starting to research the trucking industry and have figured out as a group we have a lot of health problems.   Todd has started writing articles for  Driver Health magazine to start bringing awareness to ways we can keep ourselves healthy while doing the job we are doing.

Bob and I daily take a multi-vitamin and also fish oil.  Bob and I both take one 81 mg  aspirin each day. I have added Wobenzym N to the vitamins I take to help with joint pain from running.    Bob will switch over to the Cooper Institute daily vitamin packs as he finishes what we have.   I will continue to take the vitamins I get from Bob Perry, The Trucker Trainer.

Bob & Linda Caffee
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Saint Louis MO
Expediters 5 years been out here on the road ten years
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