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Are you a Nutrivore? An Interview with Mira Calton, CN and Jayson Calton, PhD By Nancy Eichhorn, PhD Picture a vibrant, vivacious 30-year-old woman in the prime of her career—she owns and runs a successful public relations firm in Manhattan specializing in high-end fashion, and film and restaurant promotion. She’s flying high on life until she receives life altering news: in one earth-shattering, medical-moment her life is forewarned to change, drastically. Prepare for full time care, she’s told, your bones are brittle beyond repair—advanced osteoporosis the culprit, traditional Western medicine unable to offer more than the soon-tobe invalid prognosis. Somatic Psychotherapy Today | Fall 2014 | Volume 4 Number 2 | page 14
Now, some women may respond with a poor me mentality and succumb. Others may move fast and furious streaking forward grasping at life in complete denial of their diagnosis thus hastening their physical descent into fractures and splints. Our young heroine, Mira, however, moved in a methodical manner—a mission lay ahead. Keen on recovery, she researched options, treatments, and care-givers outside the traditional medical community. She traveled to Orlando, Florida for an appointment with Jayson Calton, PhD, a fellow of the American Association of Integrative Medicine, a Diplomat of the College of Clinical Nutrition, and a Board Certified Micronutrient Specialist (these among a long list of distinguished degrees, certifications, publications, and successful clinical work). He was noted for his nutritional work helping clients with obesity, diabetes, osteoporosis, cancer, celiac disease, depression, migraine headaches, high blood pressure, immune system disorders, and more. Mira met her match—medically as well as romantically. Together they mapped out the course of her skeletal decline and researched ways to both halt the progression and transform it to create a healing trajectory. Their experiences catapulted them into a lifetime career studying micronutrients—any vitamin or mineral that is essential in small amounts for the proper growth and metabolism of living organisms—and helping people achieve optimal health. “When Mira was first diagnosed and made her way into my office, we looked at how to get the deficient minerals and vitamins she need (calcium, magnesium, and vitamin K 2 ) into her body,” Jayson says of their meeting back in early 2000. Jayson understood the nature of micronutrients and their role in health and illness. He knew the delicate interplay between vitamins and minerals—increases in one results in deceased absorption of another—and that homeostatic balance resulted in optimal health. Mira’s osteoporosis (her reduced bone mass that lead to increased skeletal fragility and susceptibility to fractures) resulted from micronutrient deficiencies. The key to a cure was in micronutrient sufficiency (Agiratos & Samman, 1994; Allen, de Benoist, Dary, & Hurrell, 2006; Calton, 2010; Watts, 1988, 1990). “Micronutrient deficiency is the most widespread and dangerous health concern of the 21 st century, effecting nearly 100% of the people on this planet,” Jayson says. More than 2 billion people in the world suffer from micronutrient deficiencies, which are largely caused by dietary deficiencies of vitamins and minerals, even small amounts can result in detrimental effects (Allen et al., 2006). Micronutrients: Their role in maintaining health and treating illness Casimir Funk, a polish biochemist, formulated the concept of vitamins (originally called ‘vital amines’) in 1912. He was inspired by the work of Christiaan Eijkman who was researching the disease known as beriberi. Eijkman had documented that people who ate brown rice were less susceptible to beriberi than people who only ate fully milled rice. Curious, Funk wanted to isolate the substance responsible. His work resulted in the discovery of vitamin B 3 —niacin. A forerunner in the field of nutritional science, Funk researched and wrote extensively about the etiology of deficiency diseases and their treatment (e. g., beriberi, scurvy, pellagra, and rickets). He discovered that many human diseases were caused by a lack of certain nutrients necessary for metabolism (that were readily available in some foods) and thus developed his theory on the interrelationships between vitamins and minerals. Micronutrient deficiency is scientifically linked to the most of the modern health conditions and diseases including a higher risk of being overweight, obesity, cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis, and more (Allen, de Benoist, Dary, & Hurrell, 2006; Calton, 2010; Watts, 1988, 1990). Somatic Psychotherapy Today | Fall 2014 | Volume 4 Number 2 | page 15
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