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Why you should stop taking vitamins!

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What is a vitamin? And what are your vitamins made of? vi·ta·min NOUN vitamins (plural noun) any of a group of organic compounds that are essential for normal growth and nutrition and are required in small quantities in the diet because they cannot be synthesized by the body. There are several different types of vitamins. Natural Source vitamins contain nutrients from vegetable, animal or mineral sources. These “natural” vitamins require a significant amount of processing and refining. Some examples would be vitamin D from fish liver oils or vitamin E from vegetable oils. To be considered a “natural” vitamin, it only has to include 10% of actual natural plant or animal-derived ingredients – the other 90% could be synthetic. Synthetic vitamins fall into two different categories. The first, Nature-Identical Synthetic vitamins, are nutrients completely manufactured in a lab with the molecular structure identical to the same nutrients occurring in natur
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Antacids - Short Term Relief and Long Term Problems

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Antacids are one of the top selling drugs in the U.S., available in many over-the-counter and prescription forms. While most people consider these drugs to be harmless and have little side effects, this couldn’t be farther from the truth! While these drugs were originally designed for prescribed only for short-term use, they are often used and prescribed now for months or years at a time, or sometimes indefinitely. These drugs work by interfering with the “proton pump” and stopping the production of hydrochloric acid by parietal cells in the stomach. The problem is, over 90% of people with “acid indigestion” and “acid reflux disease” actually suffer from these symptoms because they are producing too little stomach acid, not too much! The common story that people are led to believe is that when we are under stress our stomachs create too much acid which in turn causes heartburn and ulcers. However, what actually happens when we are under stress and our sympathetic nervous syst
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