Water retention is a serious problem. It can lead to congestion in the body, which can be damaging. Diuretics can help, but they relieve the situation not cure it.

The body stores water when it perceives a drought situation. The body believes there is a drought and it stores water for an emergency. Dr. Bob was a MD internal medicine, orthomolecular doctor, MD psychiatrist, chiropractor, and healer 65 years. He was a diabetic who lived to 108 years with only 1 side effect 2 years before he passed away. Dr Bob suggested you could trick your body into believing you had sufficient water. He said increase your water consumption and the body may be tricked to believe there is no need to store extra water. For example, in many cases where you have swollen ankles the idea is to drink more water and your body will get rid of excess water.

Dr. Bob also advised 300 mg per day of vitamin B6 in divided doses for water retention. Vitamin B6 controls many aspects of water balance in the body. Also Dr. Bob advised a multivitamin and mineral with the B6. The B6 needs cofactors to work and therefore a multi is needed along with B6 supplementation. Dr. Bob recommended Maxilife multivitamin and mineral. He said it had deficiency and insufficiency doses and in cases of stress such as water detention where deficiencies may occur, Maxilife is insurance against many deficiencies.

Dr. Bob advised the following:

1. Use Maxilife multivitamin and mineral each time you use vitamin B6.

2. Use a B50 or B100 as another method to get your B6 dose. In this case you would not need the multivitamin and mineral.

3. Use 500 mg magnesium and 1000 mg calcium. Magnesium is an important cofactor of B vitamins and calcium is necessary to balance magnesium. Dr. Bob advised your magnesium and calcium supplementation in a vitamin C buffered powder. The product page contains, "TLC buffered ascorbic C" which we consider a well-blended calcium-magnesium-buffered vitamin C product and fits Dr. Bob's criteria nicely.


Note – In order for these anti-aging ideas to be successful, you must use supplements of the highest quality. Dr. Bob often said, "almost all supplement companies produce poor quality." You can consider the product page of this web site. Almost all the products met Dr. Bob’s approval. Since he passed away we have attempted to keep the same high standards.

WARNING:  DO NOT STOP ANY TREATMENT OR MEDICATION YOU CURRENTLY USE.  CONSULT WITH YOUR DOCTOR BEFORE STARTING THE USE OF SUPPLEMENTS. 

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