If it says it has science backed products, how do you check?

New Health Tips for the Consumer

So what is science? If you pick up a highly recommended vitamin, supplement from your health store, nutraceutical company, etc. how do you know what's in there? Does it work? How does it affect my body? If you are at a retail store they will tell you to look at the label. Some natural food stores actually train their staff and they have a good idea of what does what. When you ask them, how do you know it works? Some will say science, my  next question is what science?  Usually I get a blank stare. Some will cite science based on one of the ingredients  What happens when they are mixed with other ingredients? Is there science behind THIS particular product you are recommending?

I thought I purchased a really good supplement and had been taking it for awhile. I didn't notice much but with the way I eat sometimes, I figured something is better than nothing.  Then a friend challenged me, "how do you know it works?". Well  I didn't  I went online and emailed the company and asked, especially since it had SCIENCE all over their website. Backed by SCIENCE, Proven Ingredients, etc. You get the picture. They emailed me back:

****** has not done the research so we are not able to send out this information. The studies have been done with to the ingredients. Try doing a search with the name of the ingredients not our product name.

Ok so if the ingredients are mixed with other ingredients (like a recipe or even a pharmaceutical company changes the formula it has to be re-tested) yet they want me to think that if i research the individual generic ingredients stuffed in their product that it will show what the mix will do as a whole? I can tell you from being a not so good cook, that if I mix up the ratios or leave an ingredient out or put an extra one in, it can taste different, cook different, well, mine turn out horrible really. So they like us to believe if you look a one ingredient on the label and there is science tests behind it the mix or that ratio in their product will have the same result. It must be true. REALLY?  Well guess what? My blood work said otherwise. Good grief what a waste. 

 I have found that there are products out there rooted in real science. I can check them out by name on pubmed.gov or google scholar.  They are tested in whole and by product name. I have to say my blood test were near perfect this last month, well  I need to eat more protein and get out in the sun a bit more, but by golly when I took something that had real science from independent science resources like pubmed.gov, it worked.

To get on pubmed.gov and/or be published in a medical/science journal you  need to have it peer reviewed. That's scary. If I had to hand my masters thesis over to the best students in the class before I could submit it, I would still be waiting on my masters. Dig folks, don't let the labels fool you. They can look pretty and say many things, but check out the science before you waste your money! 

Is Disease Preventable?

It's time for people to take health into thier own hands. Doctors are well meaning but have little time and less resources  Health care changes are making it impossible for doctors to give the care they want to give. Is it a "preventative" system?  Not in my book. A statistic sited by the new documentary Escape the Fire (http://www.escapefiremovie.com/trailer) Shows that 75% of healthcare costs are spent on PREVENTABLE diseases!!!! WHAT?

Its time folks, time to start taking ownership back of our health, our finances, our life. To better educate and investigate what we are told. To research what's in the medicines (are they toxic? what will it do to other parts of my body?). 

A friend of ours has a horrible medical condition. One the doctors can't wrap thier arms around. He's been to all sorts of specialists and on all sorts of medications. He's a loving father and husband but is at wits end. WHY, because they can't figure out with all the modern technology what's wrong!   So they put him on one  medicine, then two, then three. Lets add in steroids and other synthetic materials to our body. His body is not tollerating it well and after being in and out of the hospital he is now on a transplant list... the doctors in the best attempt to save him, to help him back to health, have killed off one of his vital organs.

Was anyone at fault? No, everyone had good intentions. Was there something DIFFERENT that could have been done? YOU BET!  It's not fair that the medical community has little or no training in natural, holistic or true preventive medicine. Its not right that we dismiss anything that is natural because it does not have FDA approval. Do you know that the FDA is there to make sure we don't die from synthetic drugs?

What are you going to do? What can we do?  Check out www.fliptheswtich247.com and find out natural ways to help our body fight off attacks!

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