I heard a guy once said about cheating on his girlfriend - what she doesn't know will not kill her.There may be truth in what he said but the same truth cannot be true for what we take in into our body. That's why it is essential that we choose well our food, our supplements, our drinks and whatever substances we get inside our body.
I came upon an email last time regarding Avandia. It's one of the medicines for diabetics that was pulled out of the market in various countries because of alleged deadly side effects. And deadly means deadly- like congestive heart disease, kidney failure, stroke, and heart attack. If it's only allegations and no clear -cut evidence so why was it pulled out? Was it because there was also no proof that it was otherwise? It's not the first time that a medicine was pulled out of the market. How can such medicine even make it into the market? Why are people used as guinea pigs and mice? A friend told me that the contestability period for medicine is 5 years. So within 5 years that it is being used, all people using it are lab-rats. Hmm, scary..it's one thing I wouldn't want to be counted in.That's why I'm not anxious about taking supplements from a 75 year old producer of vitamins and food supplements - Nutrilite. One hundred scientists, more than 500 patents, more than a hundred quality tests every day plus they grow their own raw materials in their own certified organic farms. What other assurance would you need?
Another hard truth I learned in my agri seminar last Friday, this time not about medicine but about food. It is better to buy vegetables and fruits that have signs of "insect bites". It means it wasn't pampered with insecticides. It is better to find a live worm inside your vegetable than a dead one, it means the vegetable wasn't soaked in a pesticide solution. If the worm is dead, it is most likely that the pesticide has seeped in into the vegetable. The best solution, buy from organic farms or grow your own vegetables. If that's impossible, wash your vegetables with Amway's Dishdrop as it is an effective surfactant so that the water can effectively penetrate beyond surface tension and oil.
(left side: washed with Amway's DD - greener and no water remains on top.
right side: washed with water only - water remains on top and did not penetrate well)
Lastly, this is something that surprised me when I attended a Nutrilite seminar. It may not be deadly but it's potent enough to kill your eyes. For quite a time, I was unaware of such truth about glutathione and maybe you are too. It's a known fact that the side effect of an overdosage of Gluthathione in our body system can cause whitening. That's why, so many glutathione products are making it big in the Phil market with so many Filipinos, men and women and gays alike, wanting to be fairer. Glutathione inhibits the action of melanocytes thus giving the whitening effect. The bad side is, it does not choose which specific melanocytes in the body will be inhibited. It has a general systemic effect including the melanin in our eyes. Continuous overdosage can reduce the shielding effect of melanin in our eyes and expose it to more radiation and UV rays thereby causing blurring of vision and eventually blindness. Glutathione is not bad per se but just like anything, too much of it can be harmful. At good dosage, it can be helpful for our our body because it is an antioxidant and fights off free radicals. However, it is not an essential nutrient as our body can produce it on its own and is not needed in our diet. Supplementation is thus deemed unnecessary as oral intake does not show significant rise in the circulating Glutathione as proven by Witschi and coworkers in the test they've done. So if you want fairer skin, just go skin level. But better yet love your true natural skin color. If you want to improve your natural glutathione production, take vitamin D3. It can be found in Nutrilite's CalMagD - a tablet providing you already with calcium, magnesium and Vitamin D3, a three in one formulation for better calcium absorption and it's spiked with phytonutrients for more antioxidizing effect.
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