There's a lot involved w/ your health including exercise, diet, lifestyle, etc. The diet is basically a couple things: eating organic, clean foods and some supplements. The diet itself is, to me, basically a good, organic diet.
The big mystery seems to be the supplements - what are they?
The Natural Health Detective breaks it down really well. Here's what I did...
Not being well versed in the topics she talks about, I went to my local health food store to talk to the best supplement source I know: Pablo. He knows it all. I went thru w/ him what I learned and he recommended a few things.
From my understanding, the Garden of Life's Primal Defense is 3 things: detox, EM/probiotic and fermented grasses. These can be humate (or fulvic acid) for detox, EM Concentrate for EM/probiotic and Grainfields fermented grasses.
I haven't seen an online source for humate/fulvic acid. My best guess is that the Grainfields Wholegrain Liquid is the fermented grasses.
My 'consultant' at the store wasn't convinced humate/fulvic acid is a proven source though I'm sure others are. So concentrating on the other areas, I got a few things...
For my probiotic, I got DAILY DOPHILUS™ AM/PM Complete Probiotic System. Instead of fermented grasses, I got some 'super greens': Just Barley · Cereal Grasses and Hawaiian Spirulina · Nutrient Dense.
There are a lot of options out there and it's pretty overwhelming trying to navigate it all. As in many cases, I feel like unless you start buying books to study it all yourself or read a TON of web pages, there really isn't too much to break it down to the basics.
My understanding, in a nutshell, is...
The EM/probiotic is helpful bacteria for your GI tract: it gets your system more efficient in breaking down food, processing it, etc. It's the same type of thing as eating yogurt w/ acidophilus but moreso. I choose the Daily-Dophilus b/c it seemed to have the most varieties of bacteria and b/c of their MAKTrek Bypass and ProBioFlax delivery systems.
The 'greens' are 'super foods' which are just really, really good for you. I asked Pablo about JuicePlus and he said that's more 'table' greens and fruits as opposed to 'super greens.' From the Pure Planet website about the barley:
Among nature’s most potent leafy green vegetables are the cereal grasses, unique plants that are so packed with a broad spectrum of nutrition that they are sometimes referred to as nature¹s multivitamin.
About the spirulina:
...today Hawaiian Spirulina is considered one of the most nutrient-dense foods on the planet. ...An excellent source of the rare but important fatty acid GLA, Hawaiian Spirulina is also superabundant in antioxidants.
I chose my 2 products mostly based on Pablo's information and recommendation.
I hope to observe overtime the benefits/effects of these supplments and maybe make changes to my plan. I'll try to post the updates here.
Resources
- The links above to products and such - click on the various links w/in them.
- The Natural Health Detective
- Live Superfoods
- Vinny Pinto
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SPP: I'm intrigued. But I kind of wish you would add only one of these at a time so you could more easily observe what effects (if any) it has.
I considered that, but also didn't want to wait too long to add more good things. Also, I think each will have separate effects to a degree, or at least the results may be separately measurable. We'll see.
This is a very interesting post. Hope to see updates.
More info on supplements and such that I've been buying
You know, you can get the original culture of EM1 from EM America (http://www.emamerica.com/data) and make your own supplements through fermented extracts.
EM1 contains microbes from 4 genus (lactobacillus, bacillus, saccharomyces, and rhodopseudomonas). You may also want to look at EMX, a ferment of rice bran, papaya, and kelp.
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