Will the medical community ever recommend using natural remedies first?
Although using natural remedies require a substantial investment of time and are not covered under insurance, there’s a growing number of people who are saying NO to pharmaceuticals in favor of home remedies that have been used for millennia.
These natural remedies often offer a healthy alternative to pharmaceuticals with little to no adverse side effects. Surprisingly, many younger board certified doctors are now recommending a few these remedies that they have found helpful with their patients. However, these helpful remedies aren’t widely smiled upon and aren’t taught in medical school. In fact, many doctors and specialists who I’m personal friends with have been threatened to have their licences taken away if they continue these recommendations.
For this reason, many doctors find it difficult prescribe anything beyond pharmaceuticals. This leaves the patients in the difficult situation of searching for alternatives to remedy their ailments. explains the growing trend continues, this will put a serious dent in the pharmaceutical industry and more into “alternative health practitioners” pockets.
Safety is the biggest concern the medical community has with natural remedies.
On the market today in the U.S. are many powerful, potent supplements that have done a great deal of good and harm to people. They can be the instrument to regaining health and vigor, or can lead to serious injury and illnesses in healthy as well as unhealthy people.
The first concern comes when herbs or supplements are taken along with others or common drugs. Mixing them can cause a serious health crisis and in extreme cases, death.
“a review of potential adverse interactions between some of the commonly used herbal supplements and analgesic drugs. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, particularly aspirin, have the potential to interact with herbal supplements that are known to possess antiplatelet activity [used by the body to stop bleeding] (ginkgo, garlic, ginger, bilberry, dong quai, feverfew, ginseng, turmeric, meadowsweet and willow), with those containing coumarin (chamomile, motherworth, horse chestnut, fenugreek and red clover) and with tamarind, enhancing the risk of bleeding. (PubMed aka US National Library of Medicine, Dec, 27, 2002, by the Journal of clinical pharmacy and therapeutics.)
This example is just one of many contraindications that have the same or worse side effects to the body when taken in conjunction with other remedies, or when it’s taken for too long or too much of the product.
Doctrine & Covenants chapter 89
10 And again, verily I say unto you, all wholesome herbs God hath ordained for the constitution, nature, and use of man—
11 Every herb in the season thereof, and every fruit in the season thereof; all these to be used with prudence and thanksgiving.
Secondly, nutritional products manufactured and sold in the U.S. are not controlled or regulated by the FDA in the same way over the counter or prescription drugs are controlled.
Varying sources and manufacturing processes offer inconsistent products.
Look no further than natural remedies purchased at the major retailers like Wal-Mart, GNC, Target, etc. You’ll find these and many other herbal retailers sell products under the same label, but with an entirely different product from one batch to the next. “Over the counter” herbs purchased from retailers large and small don’t regulate their products nor is their staff equipped to give knowledgeable advice on it’s use and safe dosage.
The contributing factors to this problem is sourcing, manufacturing process and adulteration from the original formula.
“The [nutritional] industry has been criticized for some time. In April, more than a dozen state attorneys general asked Congress to launch an investigation into herbal supplements. A recent study in the British Journal of Cancer found a potential connection between men who took muscle-building supplements and the risk of developing testicular cancer. The New York attorney general’s office ordered four retailers – GNC, Target, Walgreens and Wal-Mart – to halt sales of some supplements after DNA tests apparently showed that they did not always contain the herbs advertised.” (Chicago Tribune on November 28, 2015)
Some U.S. and abroad manufacturers add fillers and even known harmful chemicals to their products simply because they’ve found a cheaper way to…Cheat!
In the wake of China’s horrible reputation for producing counterfeit nutritional products, in the summer of 2015, China approved a new bill attempting to regulate certain herbs and supplements. However, this problem is far from over. China’s unregulated nutritional products are still the top supplier for U.S. retail nutritional products.
Jeff Crowther, executive director of the U.S.-China Health Products Association, speaking on a recent law passed by China’s efforts to produce safer nutritional products, states:
“Over the years, this absence of transparency has created a mistrustful consumer base and a fertile environment for unscrupulous opportunists to cash in on producing unsafe, shoddy, as well as, in some cases, deadly products.”
Clearly, what you read on the label is not always what you get!
For these reasons I’ve diligently sought companies with reputations for excellence, purity, potency, and consistency. Each recommended company assures the highest quality and integrity of their products. These companies manufacture their products on U.S. soil and in their own state of the art, U.S. certified manufacturing facilities. Their raw ingredients are sourced from all around the world, and some from China. However, they use extreme care in selecting the best supplier with the highest standard of purity and potency. Each raw ingredient must pass a series of highly sophisticated tests before it’s approved to be used in production. From these companies you should expect that each product is pure, potent, consistent and safer when used as directed.
Preexisting condition is best if I work with your doctor in finding right supplements to optimize your health.
