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    Gabe posted an update 5 years ago

    In this video biochemist and herbalist Dr, Robert Morse explains why isolated nutrients are a $40 billion scam. Your body does not always absorb and utilize nutrients. Ascorbic acid is antagonistic to calcium. Your thyroid glands have to be up to par to absorb nutrients. There is a great deal of money spent of advertisement to entrain people into spending a significant amount of money on supplements. Every year big pharma rakes in over $40 billion a year on isolated nutrient supplements. Supplements can be harmful. The problem that one may think he is solving by taking a supplement may actually be caused by digestive issues. Also, there are some supplements that if you take them your body will stop producing them. You do not need to isolate these compounds. Instead focus on getting nutrients through your diet. Supplements distract people from nutrition. Herbal supplements are not a supplement its a food source. He discuses the difference between mechanistic medicine and naturopathy medicine.

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      FiatLux replied 5 years ago

      I agree that lots of the supplements sold are substandard. I also agree that if you are generally healthy, with a healthy gut, a healthy diet, and a healthy lifestyle (that’s a lot of “if’s”), you probably don’t need supplements. From my personal experience, however, I’d put in a word for not being all-or-nothing about it. I think it depends on the person and the supplements involved. I got back sensation in my feet, which was partly gone due to neuropathy, after I started taking a synthetic, lipid-soluble form of thiamine. That’s just one example I could give. So “it’s a scam” — sometimes yes, sometimes no.