Let me be more blunt, it's not the supplements, it's the food. Food is
your medicine, not chemicals from big pharma. The reason cows fed grain
are so unhealthy, and require so many supplements and antibiotics, and
other interventions is because their diet sucks. A cow that can graze on
flowing grass, doesn't get sick much, doesn't require much if any
supplements, and certainly has healthier byproducts. You are no
different in this respect, and it is a reality that people have trouble
grasping.
It wasn't as big of a problem many years ago for many reasons. Our soils
weren't strip farmed of nutrients, crop rotation was practiced, we
didn't lace everything with chemicals (Look up the "Sulfur Issue" at
farming websites to see how bad it is getting). More stuff was raised
closer to home, and more nutrient dense because much of it wasn't lost
in transport. We didn't have products with pesticide enzymes engineered
into them. Most people had a garden, so a good portion of the year they
ate their own stuff, and canned for the winter. It's really the whole
system we have that's breaking down, and instead of addressing the core
problem, we're trying to band aid it with science. We've reached point
break, either we make the changes, or we become extinct.
Also there are nutrients from live, unprocessed foods science doesn't
discuss. (Like the 5,000 enzymes in honey, of which they can only
identify a few) This is one reason we're not getting the full picture,
you can't break down life into a couple of components, that's ignorant
reductionist thinking. When you take a root grind it up, heat it, then
analyze it you no longer have the same root, you missed some of its
components. Similar to how a Mushroom exposed to sun isn't the same
mushroom inside of a dark log. Mushrooms chemically change once exposed
to sunlight. Look it up, this applies to a lot of other things, even
non-fungal. This is just one small example of why we have gaping holes
in our food science.
Finally, the point I am trying to make.. FOOD! /*FOOD is your
MEDICINE*/! Organic Food, Herbal teas, extracts, roots, plants, fruits,
eggs, some fish, and a whole lot of natural spring water if you can find
it. Go pick some Dandelions and eat them, dandelions have more
nutrients than a Banana, Apple and Carrot combined! Don't spray them,
eat them, they are gifts to your health. The much maligned "Big Pharma"
everyone loves to hate, is the same one extracting nutrients from food,
selling dead food to you, then selling you back the isolated compounds
and making a ton of money off you.
In the USA there are only seven companies that manufacture refined
vitamin components. The seven Companies Are:
1. Pfizer Chemicals Division.
2. Fine Chemicals Division Henkel Corporation.
3. Takeda USA Takeda Chemical Industries, LTD.
4. Roche Chemical Division Hoffman LaRoche.
5. Archer Daniels Midland Corporation.
6. Chemicals Division BASF Wyandotte Corp.
7. Eastman Chemical Company
100% of the vitamins made by these companies are synthetic or identical
to synthetic. They are all made to an internationally accepted standard
referred to as USP-grade (United States Pharmacopoeia) of FCC (Food
Chemical Codex) vitamin material, in other words, free-form vitamin
molecules without their natural food attachments.
Among these are vitamins derived from so-called natural sources, and
even these are stripped of their natural protein bonds and other food
attachments, including enzymes. They frequently contain detectable
amounts of petroleum-based extraction solvents such as Hexane a
component of gasoline. Almost all vitamins on the market today, whether
labeled natural source or natural base, have been so processed as to
leave them in a totally unnatural free form, not in the natural form in
which nutrients are delivered in living food.
Dorothy Fitzpatrick wrote:
And what if you live where there is very little sunlight - or you can't take
it? And sardines are now full of mercury so that is a no go for a start! dee
On 21 Apr 2010, at 19:52, bodhisattva wrote:
Small quantities is the operative word, but science apparently will never
understand natural law, and continues to break it with recklessness and bad
results. I don't believe for a second the D the sun makes in our skin is the
same as the synthetic hormone from Merck.
However, if you must take D, then do some research on what buffers the residual
amounts in your body. Perhaps supplement D+K, so the rest is buffered off. Most
people are told to avoid things with K in it (Grassfed Cows, and the
meat/milk/butter from them, free range hen eggs, etc), and since K2 is probably
vastly more important than D this isn't a good thing. If you drink a can of
soda, take a tums along with it. The calcium will bind and flush much of the
excess Fluoride. Same principle really. It'd probably say a
D+K+Magnesium+Calcium combined supplement might be a better idea than just gobs
and gobs of D.
Sunlight and Sardines!
