Re: Re: good brands of vitamins? (was monsanto/solgar)

[Guest guest]

We also would highly recommend Standard Process supplements.. We receive these

from our chiropractor and time and time again have had great results. We are

using their Allorganic Trace Mineral supplement to get some of those needed

minerals with our RO unit taking everything out.

Shari

----- Original Message -----

From: drmichaelmarasco

Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 4:40 AM

Subject: Re: good brands of vitamins? (was monsanto/solgar)

Carma,

The lines of commercially available supplements are pathetically

poor. There are a few companies who provide an occasional decent

product in their line however most are synthetic and or poor quality

many times making deficiencies worse and causing more stress on the

body.

The only two supplement lines that I ever recommend are Standard

Process and Doctors Research. Standard Process is only available

through a health care provider. And of these two lines my experience

has shown much better results with Standard Process, both with my own

family and my patients.

See my post #3227. Also see my post " prenatal vitamins " at

www.westonaprice.org on their forum. It also discusses why I

recommend SP over others. You can also read about them as

www.standardprocess.com

I realize sometimes I sound like I'm on the payroll at SP but

I'm not I just respect their 70 years of history and Farmland that

averages 8-10 feet of topsoil as opposed to 4-6 inches in the rest of

north america. These supps are made from food sources not fake

substances synthetically produced in a lab. If you can't get all

your nutrition from food, your supplements better be made from

food. I am familiar with most of what is sold in the stores

(obviously not all) and there is nothing there that I would recommend.

If you have any further questions Carma feel free to email me or

re-post here. If you need a health care provider near you to obtain

the SP product just let me know and I'll find one for you. In the

sometime situation we can't find one near you, I can help you get

them. Either way enjoy your inquiry.

Sincerely,

Dr. Marasco,BS,DC

Cincinnati,Oh

> >> You are right Solgar does not produce a quality supplement

line. I

> would not have recommended them before the apparent buy out and

> certainly would continue to say stay away. <<

>

> What *are* some good mainstream brands? (Meaning, those my local

Wild

> Oats or Whole Foods would have on the shelf.)

>

> ~ Carma ~

>

> To be perpetually talking sense runs out the mind, as perpetually

> ploughing and taking crops runs out the land. The mind must be

manured,

> and nonsense is very good for the purpose. ~ Boswell

>

> Carma's Corner: http://www.users.qwest.net/~carmapaden/

[Guest guest]

Dr. Mike,

Please tell me how I can locate your " prenatal vitamin " post on the Weston

A. Price website??

Thanks!

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[Guest guest]

I am forever searching for good, whole food vitamins that are inexpensive and

readily available . Although I like standard process, they are only available

through practitioners and this is not an option for many people. I'm

particularly interested in vitamins that children will take, especially children

with autism since I work with these kids a lot and they can be very picky.

I found one line that looks pretty decent, but it is sold via MLM/network

marketing. I usually stay away from MLM products because I think most of them

are inferior but this line looks different. The company is called GNLD and they

were one of the first to make whole food based supplements (started around 60

years ago). They have a lot of research and are very committed to quality. They

make a liquid vit for children which tastes good and is easy to mix with juice

and a chewable antioxidant. They have a very large line of products. They also

sell shampoo and such but they admit that these are not completely free of

chemicals. They have tried to make them all natural but say they just can't get

a good product so they settled for making something that works good and is as

chemically clean as possible. They make a good liquid hand soap that I like

(which serves as an all purpose cleaner as well) an is safe for use by

chemically sensitive people. I signed up as a distributor to get the discounts

but I have never sold to anyone and have no interest in doing so. If you would

like to talk to a distributor who is actively selling these, I can pass on his

email address.

One thing I thought was interesting about these vits is they contain lipids that

help the cell membrane work better to let nutrients into the cell and toxins

out. I'm very sensitive to toxins and when I first took these vits I could tell

there was a detox going on. They also have a product called betaguard which will

help get rid of heavy metals (it was developed with chemotherapy patients in

mind - to help detoxify them after chemo).

The company is very product based and not just a bunch of distributors trying to

earn their millions. This is pretty apparent because most people have never

heard of them even though they have been around so long - they are pretty low

key. I found out about them from a chiropractor.

Barb

[Guest guest]

My family and I have been using another whole food supplement called Seasilver

for the past few months. www.seasilver.com - it also is an MLM, but not a big

sell job. My grandfather, who is 87 years old, has had a few strokes and was

slightly slurring his speech, searching for words and had some mild shaking. He

takes 2-4 ounces a day, and his speech is much quicker, not slurring and he says

he feels great. Before that, he was taking a lot of different types of

vitamins, manufactured by Pure Encapsulations. He says this makes a huge

difference, whereas the other stuff didn't. The website discusses processing -

all is unheated in the liquid except pau d'arco. I buy it by the case to save

money.

----- Original Message -----

From: Barb Carr

Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 9:11 AM

Subject: Re: Re: good brands of vitamins? (was

monsanto/solgar)

I am forever searching for good, whole food vitamins that are inexpensive and

readily available . Although I like standard process, they are only available

through practitioners and this is not an option for many people. I'm

particularly interested in vitamins that children will take, especially children

with autism since I work with these kids a lot and they can be very picky.

I found one line that looks pretty decent, but it is sold via MLM/network

marketing. I usually stay away from MLM products because I think most of them

are inferior but this line looks different. The company is called GNLD and they

were one of the first to make whole food based supplements (started around 60

years ago). They have a lot of research and are very committed to quality. They

make a liquid vit for children which tastes good and is easy to mix with juice

and a chewable antioxidant. They have a very large line of products. They also

sell shampoo and such but they admit that these are not completely free of

chemicals. They have tried to make them all natural but say they just can't get

a good product so they settled for making something that works good and is as

chemically clean as possible. They make a good liquid hand soap that I like

(which serves as an all purpose cleaner as well) an is safe for use by

chemically sensitive people. I signed up as a distributor to get the discounts

but I have never sold to anyone and have no interest in doing so. If you would

like to talk to a distributor who is actively selling these, I can pass on his

email address.

One thing I thought was interesting about these vits is they contain lipids

that help the cell membrane work better to let nutrients into the cell and

toxins out. I'm very sensitive to toxins and when I first took these vits I

could tell there was a detox going on. They also have a product called betaguard

which will help get rid of heavy metals (it was developed with chemotherapy

patients in mind - to help detoxify them after chemo).

The company is very product based and not just a bunch of distributors trying

to earn their millions. This is pretty apparent because most people have never

heard of them even though they have been around so long - they are pretty low

key. I found out about them from a chiropractor.

Barb

[Guest guest]

I am glad to hear these mentioned. I was going to ask about them. I give my

babies their liquid vitamin and my oldest also gets some of the chewables. I

also slip a chewable acerola tablet in with those because he doesn't like

them as much. I know a woman who is missing her a kidney and I believe her

spleen. She was pretty sick and run down before starting to supplement with

these. When she was pregnant she would have to lay down when going to church

and couldn't nurse her babies too long because her teeth would get lose and

her hair would start to fall out after awhile. She also never made enough

milk so her babies were all supplemented with raw goats milk. When she

started taking these the pregnancies and labors were much better. She was

also able to nurse for a longer period of time without side effects. She is

a mom of 10 and the babies she had while taking this were also much

healthier. She had always eaten a healthy diet before that with organic

produce, raw dairy, fresh ground grains and hormone free meat but these made

all the difference in the world for her.

Marcella

>From: Barb Carr <bdcarr@...>

>Reply-

>

>Subject: Re: Re: good brands of vitamins? (was

>monsanto/solgar)

>Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 11:11:34 -0600

>

>I am forever searching for good, whole food vitamins that are inexpensive

>and readily available . Although I like standard process, they are only

>available through practitioners and this is not an option for many people.

>I'm particularly interested in vitamins that children will take, especially

>children with autism since I work with these kids a lot and they can be

>very picky.

>

>I found one line that looks pretty decent, but it is sold via MLM/network

>marketing. I usually stay away from MLM products because I think most of

>them are inferior but this line looks different. The company is called GNLD

>and they were one of the first to make whole food based supplements

>(started around 60 years ago). They have a lot of research and are very

>committed to quality. They make a liquid vit for children which tastes good

>and is easy to mix with juice and a chewable antioxidant. They have a very

>large line of products. They also sell shampoo and such but they admit that

>these are not completely free of chemicals. They have tried to make them

>all natural but say they just can't get a good product so they settled for

>making something that works good and is as chemically clean as possible.

>They make a good liquid hand soap that I like (which serves as an all

>purpose cleaner as well) an is safe for use by chemically sensitive people.

>I signed up as a distributor to get the discounts but I have never sold to

>anyone and have no interest in doing so. If you would like to talk to a

>distributor who is actively selling these, I can pass on his email address.

>

>One thing I thought was interesting about these vits is they contain lipids

>that help the cell membrane work better to let nutrients into the cell and

>toxins out. I'm very sensitive to toxins and when I first took these vits I

>could tell there was a detox going on. They also have a product called

>betaguard which will help get rid of heavy metals (it was developed with

>chemotherapy patients in mind - to help detoxify them after chemo).

>

>The company is very product based and not just a bunch of distributors

>trying to earn their millions. This is pretty apparent because most people

>have never heard of them even though they have been around so long - they

>are pretty low key. I found out about them from a chiropractor.

>

>Barb

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Morning!

I am not as opposed to MLM, some are quite good, but find ing chem free

products is admittedly hard. I am meeting with one tomorrow which

appears to have chem free beauty and skin items. I have found a few

honorable MLM's and some which I can sell directly in my natural foods shop.

Shalom!

Carol in SE Illinois

Barb Carr wrote:

>

> They also sell shampoo and such but they admit that these are not completely

free of chemicals. They have tried to make them all natural but say they just

can't get a good product so they settled for making something that works good

and is as chemically clean as possible. They make a good liquid hand soap that I

like (which serves as an all purpose cleaner as well) an is safe for use by

chemically sensitive people. I signed up as a distributor to get the discounts

but I have never sold to anyone and have no interest in doing so. If you would

like to talk to a distributor who is actively selling these, I can pass on his

email address.

>

>I found out about them from a chiropractor.

>

>Barb

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Does anyone know anything about New Vision (MLM) vitamins and minerals

and other supps? I'm using their liquid minerals and like them so far,

but don't know much about them. I thought that I heard that they had

fruit and veggie supps from real whole foods.

~ Carma ~

To be perpetually talking sense runs out the mind, as perpetually

ploughing and taking crops runs out the land. The mind must be manured,

and nonsense is very good for the purpose. ~ Boswell

Carma's Corner: http://www.users.qwest.net/~carmapaden

[Guest guest]

I had a really bad reaction to their mineral product. We think it was a reation

to a chemical in it. Also, I knew a person who was making a lot of money as a

top distributor and then found out that people taking their minerals were

developing kidney stones after several months. He gave up his business because

he lost faith in their products.

Barb

Does anyone know anything about New Vision (MLM) vitamins and minerals

and other supps? I'm using their liquid minerals and like them so far,

but don't know much about them. I thought that I heard that they had

fruit and veggie supps from real whole foods.

~ Carma ~

To be perpetually talking sense runs out the mind, as perpetually

ploughing and taking crops runs out the land. The mind must be manured,

and nonsense is very good for the purpose. ~ Boswell

Carma's Corner: http://www.users.qwest.net/~carmapaden