Elizabeth Somer Books

The first step in eating your age is to understand what’s really happening inside your body as the years pass. Metabolism is far more than a calorie-burn rate; it’s the sum of every chemical process that keeps you alive—from rebuilding tissue to converting food into usable energy. When we’re young, ...

From Eat Your Age: The Metabolic Makeover for a Lifetime of Health

Every phase of life brings unique nutritional challenges, but also tremendous potential. In your twenties and thirties, your food choices lay the groundwork for decades to come. This is when eating patterns become habits that either serve or sabotage you. I urge readers at this stage to emphasize wh...

From Eat Your Age: The Metabolic Makeover for a Lifetime of Health

The most important forces in health are often the least dramatic. Vitamins and minerals do not promise overnight transformation, yet they make nearly every aspect of life possible: converting food into energy, building tissues, supporting nerve signals, maintaining immunity, protecting cells, and he...

From The Essential Guide to Vitamins and Minerals: Practical Evidence-Based Compendium

Numbers on a nutrition chart can look dry, but they represent decades of accumulated knowledge about what the body needs to function well. Somer explains Recommended Dietary Allowances, Adequate Intakes, and other reference values as practical tools rather than rigid rules. Their purpose is not to c...

From The Essential Guide to Vitamins and Minerals: Practical Evidence-Based Compendium

Some nutrients are like a paycheck that must keep arriving because there is little savings account to draw from. That is the role of water-soluble vitamins, especially the B-complex vitamins and vitamin C. Because the body stores many of them poorly and excess amounts are often excreted, consistent ...

From The Essential Guide to Vitamins and Minerals: Practical Evidence-Based Compendium

Not all nutrients behave the same way, and fat-soluble vitamins remind us that storage can be both an advantage and a risk. Vitamins A, D, E, and K are absorbed along with dietary fat and can be stored in body tissues, especially the liver and fat stores. This means the body can draw on reserves ove...

From The Essential Guide to Vitamins and Minerals: Practical Evidence-Based Compendium