How Big is Your Supplements Graveyard?
Can you Feel Your Supplements Working?
How many bottles are in your cupboards that you are not using and probably never will?
The supplements industry has some of the same problems as the pharmaceutical industry, both in its conception of health solutions and forcefulness of its hype.
They both share pill popping “take this” for that symptom. This is the medical model of disease, not the holistic model of health.
While supplements are often necessary, it is important to get nutrients from food first.
PROBLEMS WITH SUPPLEMENTS
Supplements are usually denatured compared to foods: overheated, not fresh, or overly processed in some way.
Isolated
Supplements are often isolated minerals or vitamins without cofactor nutrients to help absorb them, other minerals, vitamins, fats, etc.
Isolates may be too much in quantitiy and imbalance other nutrients, as part of the cofactor balance.
No Enzymes
Unlike raw food with enzymes to help digestion, supplements are rarely raw with enzymes preserved. Heat and freezing destroy enzymes.
Artificial
Supplements may be synthesized from coal tar, for example, and thus lack living properties.
Toxins Added
Toxins are often added, even ones believed to be benign like magnesium stearates, or solvents used in extraction, or cleaners of the manufacturing machiens, that are not listed as ingredients although traces remain. (I'm not going to provide scientific documentation aboutmag strearate, i've known this for decades, I've moved on.)
Can You Feel Supplements Working?
I have heard numerous stories of people who got off all their supplements and felt better.
Practitioners who do energetic testing routinely tell people to stop taking half or more of their supplements.
One reason people see supplements as necessary is the fixation on the measureable, as if what is not measured does not exist.
You don’t see the zinc content of red meat listed, but it is one of the highest sources of zinc.
Meat is more than protein and fat.
I have heard things like, “Raisins are pure sugar.” Apparently he sees food as nothing but macronutrients while micro nutrients of vitamins and minerals are only found in supplements as he was defending the supplement boron over raisins as a rich food source of boron. .
MEDICAL VS HOLISTIC PARADIGMS
It’s not just the supplements that are the problem, but the theory behind their use, which is more in the medical paradigm that sees each thing as separate and seeks to match symptoms with pills, “take this for that.” The alternative is to focus on nutritional deficiencies themselves as the root causes of many symptoms. You need a method of testing: labs or energetic testing.
It’s easier to focus on the relatively few root causes than the many symptoms.
The body can begin to heal itself when it gets all the nutrients it needs. This includes detoxification and fighting infection that depend on basic cellular function first as the basis of organs doing their jobs: immune systems, detoxification systems, ability to sleep and digest, etc.
The body is only as strong as its weakest links. A good place to start is to identify nutrient deficiencies. Each nutrient has dozens or thousands of functions in the body. That is where the leverage is. Don’t get lost in fancy technical lab tests that are sometimes just describing symptoms in way that makes it seem like you need experts. It's better to follow ancestoral wisdom, things selected for survival for thousands of years.
Boring Basics Boost Biggest Benefits:
The right forms of protein, fat, vitamins, minerals, probiotics, sunlight and grounding.
Nutrition is both chemistry and physics. If you can't afford supplements, get out in the sun all you can, it's free and even more important.
The supplements industry has some of the same problems as the pharmaceutical industry, both in its conception of health solutions and forcefulness of its hype.
They both share pill popping “take this” for that symptom. This is the medical model of disease, not the holistic model of health.
While supplements are often necessary, it is important to get nutrients from food first.
PROBLEMS WITH SUPPLEMENTS
Supplements are usually denatured compared to foods: overheated, not fresh, or overly processed in some way.
Isolated
Supplements are often isolated minerals or vitamins without cofactor nutrients to help absorb them, other minerals, vitamins, fats, etc.
Isolates may be too much in quantitiy and imbalance other nutrients, as part of the cofactor balance.
No Enzymes
Unlike raw food with enzymes to help digestion, supplements are rarely raw with enzymes preserved. Heat and freezing destroy enzymes.
Artificial
Supplements may be synthesized from coal tar, for example, and thus lack living properties.
Toxins Added
Toxins are often added, even ones believed to be benign like magnesium stearates, or solvents used in extraction, or cleaners of the manufacturing machiens, that are not listed as ingredients although traces remain. (I'm not going to provide scientific documentation aboutmag strearate, i've known this for decades, I've moved on.)
Can You Feel Supplements Working?
I have heard numerous stories of people who got off all their supplements and felt better.
Practitioners who do energetic testing routinely tell people to stop taking half or more of their supplements.
One reason people see supplements as necessary is the fixation on the measureable, as if what is not measured does not exist.
You don’t see the zinc content of red meat listed, but it is one of the highest sources of zinc.
Meat is more than protein and fat.
I have heard things like, “Raisins are pure sugar.” Apparently he sees food as nothing but macronutrients while micro nutrients of vitamins and minerals are only found in supplements as he was defending the supplement boron over raisins as a rich food source of boron. .
MEDICAL VS HOLISTIC PARADIGMS
It’s not just the supplements that are the problem, but the theory behind their use, which is more in the medical paradigm that sees each thing as separate and seeks to match symptoms with pills, “take this for that.” The alternative is to focus on nutritional deficiencies themselves as the root causes of many symptoms. You need a method of testing: labs or energetic testing.
It’s easier to focus on the relatively few root causes than the many symptoms.
The body can begin to heal itself when it gets all the nutrients it needs. This includes detoxification and fighting infection that depend on basic cellular function first as the basis of organs doing their jobs: immune systems, detoxification systems, ability to sleep and digest, etc.
The body is only as strong as its weakest links. A good place to start is to identify nutrient deficiencies. Each nutrient has dozens or thousands of functions in the body. That is where the leverage is. Don’t get lost in fancy technical lab tests that are sometimes just describing symptoms in way that makes it seem like you need experts. It's better to follow ancestoral wisdom, things selected for survival for thousands of years.
Boring Basics Boost Biggest Benefits:
The right forms of protein, fat, vitamins, minerals, probiotics, sunlight and grounding.
Nutrition is both chemistry and physics. If you can't afford supplements, get out in the sun all you can, it's free and even more important.
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