Health Tip: Taking Supplements with Rx

The most general approach to taking supplements when you are also using prescription medicines is to separate the time you take them by an hour.

If you take an Rx drug at 8 am, wait until 9 am to take your supplements.

The Importance of Vitamin D

UPDATE: 10/17/09
Make sure you have your high potency vitamin D to carry you through winter and help you defend your health from flu.
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Originally posted 8/14/09
Vitamin D is more of a steroidal compound than a vitamin that has an amazing range of health benefits.

One of the very important benefits of vitamin D is that it turns on at least 2000 genes. This one fact alone makes it very clear that what happens inside your body at any given time is interconnected, not the lineal concept promulgated in mainstream medicine.

Several years ago I reported on the benefit of vitamin D for people with diabetes, especially Type 1. More benefits of this compound certainly show its worth for Type 2 as well.

What ever you wish to call it, vitamin D is fat soluble and use of it requires your being sure to have healthy saturated fats in your daily food plan.

Critical to health on many levels, especially immunity. Perhaps taking more vitamin C and D will help get you through the flu mania season with less stress, and better health, than unproven vaccines or drugs that are known not to be effective.

More and more people are not getting enough exposure to sunlight and this has a direct effect on your vitamin D level. People of color, the elderly, and people whose custom calls for body covering clothing all are at risk, along with those who live at more northern latitudes, or who do not eat oily fish.

As the darker months of the year are approaching in the Northern Hemisphere, perhaps its time for you to consider testing for your level of vitamin D, or adding it to your supplement plan.

Contact us to find out more about vitamin D home testing for detecting vitamin D deficiency and monitoring of supplemented levels. This test measures total 25(OH)D, the best single measure of overall vitamin D status. Deficiency is often found in people with osteoporosis, heart disease, hypertension, autoimmune diseases, certain cancers, depression, chronic fatigue, or chronic pain.

More on Vitamin D

Medical Schools Fail the Test

I for my part am ashamed of medicine, considering what an utter fraud it has come to be. Paracelsus (1493-1541)

Some years ago there was an interesting study completed at Harvard's School of Public Health. The study showed that only about 20 percent of medical practice was effective.

Now some decades later we still see troubling issues in medical care.

from Robert Watson, CEO, VRP -

"In other news, the American Medical Student Association released its report card ranking medical schools by how well these institutions monitor and control drug industry money and perks. The results suggest that many professors are on the dole for the drug companies and their schools aren’t doing much about it. For example, Harvard Medical School received a failing grade because it either has no policy or implements policies that don’t have a substantial effect on how faculty interacts with Big Pharma, including accepting gifts and meals, providing consulting to the drug companies and participating in industry-funded speaking relationships. Other medical schools to receive a failing grade include Louisiana State University, University of Florida, and Tulane University. Of the more than 150 schools evaluated, 43 received a failing grade, 27 received a D, and 8 schools received a C. Although a number of schools did receive an A or B, there is still a lot of room for improvement. With such conflicts of interests occurring in medical school, is it any wonder conventional medicine often shuns nutritional supplements in favor of pharmaceutical drugs?"