Tuesday, February 05, 2019
There are many tens of thousands of natural products readily available for use on the marketplace today. You can easily order supplements online, walk to your nearest health food store, or pick them up at your pharmacy. While easy access to products is normally an excellent idea, when it comes to health products it can be a slippery slope. How do you know how much of any given supplement to take without lab work to insure it is even necessary? How do you figure out if that product is safe to be taken while on medication? Naturopathic doctors are experts in natural medicine and have many years of training on both pharmaceutical medications and herbal/nutritional supplements.
Also, beware of counterfeit products being sold online; only purchase from trusted suppliers or directly from the producer.
In recent times the use of natural products have skyrocketed!
However, over the years natural and safe have become synonymous and that is not always true. Take for example the harmless looking natural mushrooms on the left. Those are the infamous Amanita phalloides or Death Cap mushroom which releases a poisonous toxin when ingested. There are many documented cases of liver damage and death as a result of eating the wrong wild mushrooms.
There has also been cases of products tainted with heavy metals something that has even been reported to be present in fruit juice recently. This information is vital to you and your family because you need to know which products are safe to use. As a naturopath doctor I look for supplement companies that go the extra-mile and have outside analysis of their products to ensure that there are no contaminants and that the products contain what it claims.
One of the things that we learn from studying medicine and pathology is that many conditions do not have a single "cause." Often, there can be multiple causes or it may even simple be unknown (idiopathic). I think it is universally accepted at this point that eating a well-balanced, healthy diet is essential for good health. Naturopathic doctors take this approach a little further because on top of the fact that most Americans are not eating a well-balanced, healthy diet. Even if they were, the nutritional value of food varies for numerous reasons:
Also important to note is that we are all unique and have our own individual biochemical needs. Due to complicated genetic polymorphisms, that I will not get into here today, you many have a greater need for specific B vitamins, amino acids, or even exercise than other people. Come in for an appointment and let's see if we can figure out what you individual needs are.
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