Re: Question about traveling with supplements

[Guest guest]

I have traveled with my clo but not in a plane, just by car and I put it in a

cooler. I have learend that I prefer to buy the clo/butter oil capsules for just

such times.?You can pack them anywhere without worrying about drips and mess and

I'm sure they would stay fresh with refrigeration since the luggage area of a

plane is so cold.. I wonder if they would be less of a problem to carry-on since

they are capsules and not a bottle of liquid. ?I don't have any info on the xray

question, just thought I'd tell you the other stuff I learned!

Danae

Question about traveling with supplements

I am going on a trip and I have some supplements open like my butter

oil and clo. I don't want to pack them in the suitcase b/c then they go

through that monster xray thing. I was thinking I can put them on my

carry-on but I don't know if the airport people would give me a hard

time b/c the bottles are not sealed and I don't know if that little

xray machine poses a problem and I should just mail them to myself.

Any thoughts/experiences?

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[Guest guest]

I've shipped a box of things to my destination before, when I've had to fly on

an airplane.

I've heard of other people approaching the TSA somewhere else in the airport,

not in the

security lines, and asking them to allow certain items to bypass the X-ray.

They may want to

pull you aside for some lame secondary inspection, to sniff the contents of the

bottle, etc.

You can also call the TSA ahead of time and ask about specific items. Don't

expect a

consistent response with what you encounter on the day of your flight, though!

It might help

to get something in writing ahead of time.

[Guest guest]

Also, get insistent. Say you have food allergies, some illness, anything, to

get them to buzz

off.

[Guest guest]

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> I am going on a trip and I have some supplements open like my butter

> oil and clo. I don't want to pack them in the suitcase b/c then they

> go

> through that monster xray thing. I was thinking I can put them on my

> carry-on but I don't know if the airport people would give me a hard

> time b/c the bottles are not sealed and I don't know if that little

> xray machine poses a problem and I should just mail them to myself.

>

> Any thoughts/experiences?

You can complain all you want, but they're going to zap your stuff...

unless you keep it in your pocket. You could put a bunch of softgels

(or capsules or whatever) in a ziplock bag, squeeze all the air out,

put it in your pocket and walk right through. Unless you have really

massively bulging pockets, I guess. <g>

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[Guest guest]

So you think the little xray machine can have a microwave effect on

the supplements?

I want to just ship it but I think of how hot packages are when I get

them sometimes. Maybe the CLO would be okay shipped since it's

fermented, maybe it would just keep on fermenting. I am concerned

about the butter oil.

One time I had loose pants and put the CLO in my pocket and that

worked out but it was sealed so I knew if they pulled me aside it

wouldn't have been a big deal but I think you need to put liquids in

bags right?

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> > I am going on a trip and I have some supplements open like my butter

> > oil and clo. I don't want to pack them in the suitcase b/c then they

> > go

> > through that monster xray thing. I was thinking I can put them on my

> > carry-on but I don't know if the airport people would give me a hard

> > time b/c the bottles are not sealed and I don't know if that little

> > xray machine poses a problem and I should just mail them to myself.

> >

> > Any thoughts/experiences?

>

> You can complain all you want, but they're going to zap your stuff...

> unless you keep it in your pocket. You could put a bunch of softgels

> (or capsules or whatever) in a ziplock bag, squeeze all the air out,

> put it in your pocket and walk right through. Unless you have really

> massively bulging pockets, I guess. <g>

>

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>

[Guest guest]

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> So you think the little xray machine can have a microwave effect on

> the supplements?

>

> I want to just ship it but I think of how hot packages are when I get

> them sometimes. Maybe the CLO would be okay shipped since it's

> fermented, maybe it would just keep on fermenting. I am concerned

> about the butter oil.

Why not ship it in a temperature controlled container or maybe even use dry ice?

If you do ship, you might want to make sure the shipper doesn't use

x-rays on their packages.

--

Buffalo too, has beautiful summers but not this year. Cool and rainy.

For the first time in ten years, we never installed the air

conditioners. My line on all this is, somebody better do something

about global warming before I freeze to death. - Ostrowski

" If you're not on somebody's watch list, you're not doing your job " -

Dave Von Kleist

[Guest guest]

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> So you think the little xray machine can have a microwave effect on

> the supplements?

Well, they use pretty high energy levels, and Enig said she

wouldn't touch anything that's gone through them, so yeah, I'd avoid

consuming anything that's been scanned.

> I want to just ship it but I think of how hot packages are when I get

> them sometimes. Maybe the CLO would be okay shipped since it's

> fermented, maybe it would just keep on fermenting. I am concerned

> about the butter oil.

Well, butter oil is highly saturated, so it ought to be pretty

stable. Are these in liquid form, or in gelcaps? If the former,

shipping would doubtless be safer and easier, and as suggests,

you could just pack it with some dry ice or an ice pack.

> One time I had loose pants and put the CLO in my pocket and that

> worked out but it was sealed so I knew if they pulled me aside it

> wouldn't have been a big deal but I think you need to put liquids in

> bags right?

Yeah, they're supposed to be in separate ziploc baggies IIRC. So I'd

just mail the stuff ahead of you.

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