Doctorate in Natural Medicine
Has 21st century technology advanced how nutrients are delivered to the cells? Can what’s designed in a lab replace what the earth naturally delivers? Have we really progressed or have we fast tracked the process for added shelf life and profitability?
As most are familiar with the B vitamins, let’s examine B-complex. When comparing the evidence, you decide what you are willing to put into your body: synthetic or plant-based.
At a time when so many have allergies we must be constantly vigilant to avoid toxins. This is not an easy task since so many toxins are hidden, unseen or unknown. You may have heard the saying “the straw that broke the camel’s back”. We can use this illustration to examine the various toxins we are exposed to on a daily bases, unaware that the last straw may be a simple additive found in your supplements – summed up in a term called bioaccumulation.
I make these comments based on the article in The JAMA Forum “Given Their Potential for Harm, It’s Time to Focus on the Safety of Supplements.” The question is, as an industry, how do we combat the detrimental comments regularly made from the side of pharma and the biased media?
The article declares that in the United States consumers spend about $30 billion per year on supplements including vitamins, minerals, and herbal products, with uncertain benefits and possible harm for children, as well as adults. If we truly examine the evidence, they may be right in some aspects and with some vitamin brands.
As the CEO and vitamin formulator for Life Choice, 32 years, I have seen the steady decline of raw material quality beginning from the mid 80’s, mainly as a result of using synthetic rather than plant based and feed grade rather than pharmaceutical grade raw materials.
A new study released by the University of Toulouse in France found that over half of weight loss supplements are spiked with pharmaceuticals.
A traditional ceremonial beverage of South Pacific societies, Kava (Piper methysticum) is widely consumed in Vanuata, Fiji and Western Somoa, whose populations have lung cancer rates just 5-10 percent of U.S. lung cancer rates despite similar levels of tobacco consumption.
Unlocking the mystery of our immune system is much like seeking buried treasure—X may mark the spot, but knowing how to support our immune system may seem like navigating a maze.
There is no question, even by those who are involved in the industry, that many manufacturers of natural health products, dietary supplements, nutraceuticals etc... make false claims regarding the ingredients in their formulations.
To tackle this problem, many consumer advocates, as well as those in the industry, have turned to a classification technique called DNA barcoding to help counter this problem.
Beijing's Pollution Problem Is Now A New York, Paris, Toronto and London ProblemToxic Chemicals Being Emitted Overseas Are Finding Their Way Into North American And European Streams and Lakes
Pesticides are responsible for a number of diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, asthma, birth defects, body burden, cancer, diabetes, endocrine disruption, learning/developmental disorders, Parkinson’s disease, and sexual/reproductive dysfunction.
An very interesting and timely topic on the depletion of our immunity and the discovery that antibiotics are becoming no longer useful, as it now stands and without natural alternatives we are in trouble big time.
The amazing power of amino acids, pure medicine if given in the correct form and right dosages. The best is to ask questions, if you are vegan or vegetarian how far do you go to ensure product quality?
We must be able to have an alternative to pharmaceutical drugs; public trust has also greatly waned for this group too.
Pertussis (whooping cough) has re-emerged in countries with high vaccination coverage and low mortality.
Although it is listed as one of the top causes of vaccine preventable deaths, reports of a global resurgence originated in countries with low mortality and high vaccination coverage.
Recently, CTV reported that data from a clinical trial was misrepresented, and now the research community is renewing their resolve to have the true findings of thousands of abandoned or misrepresented studies published.
This sort of terminology is not something that most people dwell on—after all, if something is labeled as “medicine,” wouldn’t it go without saying that it is also professional and therapeutic? One would assume so, but a problem may also lie within those same assumptions.
