Your Personal Vitamin Profile: A Medical Scientist Shows You How to Chart Your Individual Vita

by Michael Colgan

Book Overview

In Your Personal Vitamin Profile, medical scientist Dr. Michael Colgan shows how individually tailored programs of vitamin and mineral supplements lead to better health and longer life.According to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688015069
• ISBN13: 9780688015060
• Release Date: November 1982
• Publisher: PerfectBound
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Dr. Colgan's Book is Worth it's Weight in Gold

I have been following the guidelines in Dr. Colgan's book since it came out in 1982. I think the information in this book is as valuable now as it was when the book was introduced. About every 5 years, I review the profile to make sure that I am still on track with my vitamin and mineral intake.I am 62 years old, have a lousy diet (lots of junk food), don't get nearly enough exercise and I am as healthy as a horse (I suppose I should knock on wood). I attribute this in large part to the fact that I am getting enough vitamins and minerals into my system thanks to Dr. Colgan.I have not had a cold or flu since I started taking vitamins and minerals regularly; as far as I'm concerned they work. And Dr. Colgan's book will help you figure out the amounts that are right for you. It is the only vitamin book I know of that helps you establish the correct amounts; the only book that takes you and your lifestyle into consideration.I highly recommend this book to anyone who will listen. I also highly recommend the religiously regular use of vitamins and minerals. If you don't take them regularly, they won't work for you.Leland Sheppard

Five stars would not have been out of line

Five Stars would not have been out of line as a rating, except for the fact that the book was written so long ago(1982). The author cannot be faulted for "telling a story" that needed to be told at the time, or for the fact that scientific knowledge has advanced and so some of the information is now outdated. For its time, it was a phenomenally informative and useful book for anyone looking for both a scientifically valid rationale for individualized and complete vitamin and mineral supplementation and a practical guide to proper individual dosages. Its worksheets for computing individualized dosages are worth their weight in gold. I have been supplementing my family's diet according to Dr. Colgan's formulations for 15 years, (with modifications as new information became available or on the advice of a nutritionally knowledgeable M.D.) and have often recommended the book to others or given it as a gift. I am delighted to learn that it is still available.