Are Vitamin Supplements Really Natural?
by Dean Moyer
I’ve been a “health nut” my entire life. In fact, I have a whole cupboard full of vitamins, minerals, herbs, essential oils and other products from the health food store to prove it. (Most of which I know I don’t really need.)
I quite literally can’t remember a time when I wasn’t aware of, steeped in, fed upon or indoctrinated with all the latest natural health trends.
But you know what? After years of taking all this stuff for this, that and the other thing… usually with no visible results… it finally started to dawn on me that taking a pill really wasn’t natural.
After all, these pills don’t grow on trees. They’re manufactured in some processing plant by a huge corporation that is no different than any other business except for the fact that they’ve decided to tap into the highly profitable and highly gullible “natural health” marketplace.
Time to Rethink Things
I think it’s time we health nuts stopped kidding ourselves.
I think it’s time we stop letting the multi-billion dollar health food industry pull the wool over our eyes. It’s time we quit swallowing all the hype and publicity found in the books and magazines and TV talk shows… and start to demand real scientific evidence to back up product claims.
It’s time we stopped falling for all the miracle pills and potions that they are literally trying to shove down our throats at $30.00 a bottle.
If we can’t (and I definitely don’t) trust the big drug companies… why do we turn right around and trust the big supplement makers?
After all, the so-called “natural” vitamin manufacturers are huge corporations run by the same type of people who run the giant drug companies. There isn’t a nickels worth of difference between them. They would sell you a worthless bottle of empty promises faster than you can say, “How much?”
And don’t think they wouldn’t.
Still Crazy After All These Years
Make no mistake… I’m still a health nut and a strong advocate for nutrition, exercise and natural, healthy living.
I still get a few products from the health food store — not because they’re “natural” — but simply because it’s the only place I know of to get certain items.
But I’m not as pill crazy as I used to be. I want to see scientific evidence before I shell out my hard-earned money for the latest wonder product. And when I do take something, I do so with the full knowledge that I’m taking a refined, processed chemical… NOT a natural food.
Now I’m not saying you should never take any kind of nutritional supplement… I’ll leave that decision up to you and your doctor.
However, for the most part, instead of pills to supplement my diet, I’ve chosen to do things like juicing and just making sure I eat a well-balanced diet of whole, unprocessed foods.
So far, I seem to be getting along just fine.
Don’t take any wooden nickels,
Dean