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- Why do you stress whole food nutrition so much? Aren't vitamins the best since everyone uses them in all their products? Haven't vitamins cured all kinds of ills?
The products are said to be organic and/or wildcrafted. I know what organic means but what does "wildcrafted" mean? - I had a question when reading up on the gall bladder. I recently had mine removed and in addition am being tested to confirm that I have Addison's disease. For the few months prior to my gall bladder surgery, my tolerance for alcohol was extremely low. I don't drink excessively but I do know my limit which allowed for a few drinks. I know the gall bladder aids in digestion and was wondering if a diseased gall bladder would cause it to metabolize alcohol differently causing it to hit me harder. I haven't had a drink since because I don't know how my body will handle it. Should everything be back to normal?
- Why do you stress whole food nutrition so much? Aren't vitamins the best since everyone uses them in all their products? Haven't vitamins cured all kinds of ills?
Vitamins and minerals separated from food are chemicals. They are nutritionally and chemically different from food. With the processing of food to extract vitamins comes a loss of many substances. These substances go from the molecular to the substantial levels. Such items as enzymes, co-factors, minerals, etc are all lost during the process. Vitamins are like drugs in that they are not natural. You cannot find a vitamin separate from food in nature. Vitamins are in foods. For the body to fully assimilate something in a healthy fashion it needs to be in the form of a food. If not, then there will be side effects. Because of vitamins pharmacelogical effect it does have impacts however it will never rival the long term positive impacts of whole food nutrition.
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The products are said to be organic and/or wildcrafted. I know what organic means but what does "wildcrafted" mean?
Wildcrafted foods and/or wildcrafted herb are grow where they grow naturally untended in the wild and that is where they are harvested. They are in their indigenous soil and location. There is no spraying. There are many fields around the world that are owned by growers who just grow the plants that spring up there. Echinacea, for one, will grow in a lot of natural settings. Same with sunflowers (for sunflower seeds), etc. We have exclusive arrangements to buy these products from around the world.
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- I had a question when reading up on the gall bladder. I recently had mine removed and in addition am being tested to confirm that I have Addison's disease. For the few months prior to my gall bladder surgery, my tolerance for alcohol was extremely low. I don't drink excessively but I do know my limit which allowed for a few drinks. I know the gall bladder aids in digestion and was wondering if a diseased gall bladder would cause it to metabolize alcohol differently causing it to hit me harder. I haven't had a drink since because I don't know how my body will handle it. Should everything be back to normal?
Medical doctors usually remove the gallbladder because they feel that it is not only failing to function, but may in some way jeapardize your overall health. The gallbladder is part of the digestive system as an adjunct to the liver, whose main function is to break down fats by concentrating bile. Since you no longer have a gallbladder, here is a nutritional schedule that should be of help to you:
Liver Support: 6 tablets a day
Digestive Enzymes: 1 tablet per meal
Alcohol is not good for the health for many reasons, but the most significant one is that it puts a strain on the liver, which, among other things, processes fats in the body. This is how alcohol may affect gallbladder function or may further hamper your body's ability to cope with fats. Cutting down on alcohol is a very good idea; eliminating it is an even better idea.
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