Ulterior Health

Have you noticed all the ads about all the medications you can take for just about everything. More importantly, have you noticed you cannot take some medications if you have certain underlying conditions or problems. Almost all refer to life threatening side effects.

A well known fact in health care: when you take 10 or more medicines, there is a 100% chance of all of them having an interaction of some sort with each other. In gambling terms, this means it is a sure bet.

This is not advocating that you should stop taking pills. On the contrary, you should see you doctor before making any changes or dietary modifications.

The other kinds of pills are the all natural, herbal or vitamin and mineral type.

Listening to an informercial one day a simple fact occurred to me. Trying to take all the pills for all the potential ailments we would want to protect ourselves from would bankrupt most millionaires.

Think of it, if you take one pill for your eyes, one for you stomach, one for your liver, one for your kidneys, one for your lower left ear lobe, one for your toe, how many more, I do not know.

Then to make matters worse, some of the so called natural pills that are advocated by the “what doctors don’t want you to know group” are in fact dangerous to you.

An independent lab found that calcium claiming to have come from coral actually is no better than lime stone. The problem, it has a higher level of dangerous heavy metals like Lead than other forms of calcium you can buy.

They make it sound like you will be preserved alive even though you die if you just take this all natural pill. The only problem, there are a total of 27 different pills you have to take to live forever. They all cost $35 per month. This means for under $1000 per month or less than $31.79 a day you can live forever with out health problems.

In addition to the cost, the number of vitamins and supplements you will need and the ones that are actually harmful…there is another problem.

This problem has to do with overdosing. Have you ever heard of someone overdosing on Black Strap Molasses? This food has one of the highest forms of absorbable iron and a side effect of being a stool softener. It is a great food and a wonderful nutriceutical. So what is the problem?

The pill form, on the other hand has some really bad side effects. The supplement iron pills are one of the leading causes of poisoning of children. For adults, they have a different side effect related to not being able to do what our bodies normally do with poo.

The thing is, very little iron is actually absorbed to do what it is taken for. In investing terms, the ROI or return on investment is very little.

So there is a problem with pills. Both medical and natural.

The Third Problem

There is a third problem. Since we do not eat enough of the right foods or the right foods are depleted of the proper nourishment or we face health challenges, there may be times we need supplementation.

In the hospital when a patient has lost a lot of blood from surgery or cancer, they need a rapid infusion of the building blocks of blood. Vitamins B6, B9, B12 and C along with iron are essential for the production of red blood cells. The only way to get these in sufficient quantity is by taking a vitamin pill.

So there may be times when supplementation is necessary. The reasons may be varied.

But wait, there are other poisons in our diet. Do you know what the biggest offenders are?