Buying herbal Products

Online & in Stores-

I sell products online.  I sell them online first & foremost to save trees. Trees bring us fresh air & create a habitat for many other living creatures. We could not enjoy the fresh air that we have away from cities if we did not encourage the growth & conservation of trees & green growing things.

I sell herbal supplements, vitamins, minerals, combinations, teas, tinctures & essential oils. I enjoy doing this for a variety of reasons. My Store's motto is "Natural products for a healthy lifestyle." This is no fly by night business, nor it is an mlm, nor do I believe in the quick buck. I'm in it for the long term & I believe in the products that I sell. I use many of them at home. on me.

 I have been studying herbal medicine for over 25 years & my business has been "in business" since 1985. I work with data from clinical studies done over the course of some 60 years in Europe; specifically working with the writings of the German Commission E which has been publishing for over 60 years; information on herbal supplements & how they interact with pharmaceuticals.

Obviously I would like you to buy your supplements from me; online. However, I understand that when you are out & about; it is also possible that you would like to be able to buy your products in a supermarket or super center setting. All any of us ask you, is to make sure to read the labels & to quantify, once a month; just what you are taking inside of you to make sure that you aren't overdosing on other products that can be included in those commercial, low priced supplements. 

Most of the time, the products that you can buy for less on the outside & in "bricks & mortar" stores have preservatives, additives, fillers & dyes in them which may compete with the good things that they can do for you.

In some ways these additives can help you to swallow or otherwise assimmilate the products for the best use of them in your system. On the other hand; it is possible that using them in conjunction with the  food & supplements that you eat on a daily basis, may make you overdose on the simplest of products & that won't be good for you.

Therapeutic Levels or How much is The Right Dose?

I never say that my products are the BEST for you or that they will "end" or "cure" you. That isn't my or my vendor's goal at all. We only ask that you try our products for a suitable amount of time in order that a "therapeutic level" can be reached in your system for the product to work towards bringing your body back to a more "normal" for you lifestyle.

Many Americans & humans in general are not happy with the hurry up & wait mentality. They want a "magic bullet" effect to happen when they take a supplement. For that reason, most products that we take are directed to be taken at a higher dose than one that is expected to be taken over a long period of time. Drug & supplement manufacturer's understand that most humans will not willingly continue to take a product that doesn't show almost immediate results so they up the dose to a point where you will "see something" much sooner than can normally be expected from a regular diet standpoint.

What is a therapeutic level?

That's when the amount of product that you take inside makes the changes that you took them for in the first place. Keeping a therapeutic level doesn't always take the same amount as what you took to get there & that's where most commercial vitamin & supplement sellers "sell" you more product than you really need.

This also happens in pharmaceuticals too; which is why normally you only take two weeks of a given antibiotic, you are really taking more of a dose to get the bigger amount in you faster & then keep it high & then get rid of it in your system before it overloads your system.

Most herbal & non herbal supplements are direction driven to say that you need to take a certain amount for the first two weeks. What they fail to say is that once you have reached the therapeutic level; to say, when the product begins to have the effect that you took it for, you can cut the product down to one tablet a night or just prior to when you go to sleep to get the same effect as the higher dose did to begin with.

The reason that most herbal supplements don't tell you this is that many people have different metabolisms & it isn't always easy to say exactly WHEN the therapeutic level will be reached.

Suffice it to say that you can take the amount specified on the bottle until you begin to feel the effects of what it is supposed to do to you. Then cut down the amount of the product to one tablet per night or before you go to sleep, as long as the product isn't for the regulation of something during the daytime events.  You will still get the same results, but you won't need as much of the product to get there, as long as you don't totally stop taking the product.

Why most people will say that their herbal supplements "failed" to help them.

Most people fail to get the most from their herbal supplementation because they don't give it enough time to reach the therapeutic level in their bodies; & then give it the further couple of months of use to reap the benefits. AGain, not every product is going to be a "magic bullet". Not everything works immediately. Lots of things take time. You may have taken months to put on the 50 or so pounds that you want to take off. It will take at least almost double the amount of time that you put it on, to START taking it off.

What to look for on the labels of the things that you already eat/take:

I & other supplement sellers ask that you read the labels on everything that you are attemtping to buy. Once a month, you should get everything down from where you keep it to take; all of the supplements, multiple vitamins & yes, even your prescription drugs. Write a list of ingredients down & when one or another of the products lists that ingredient, add the amount in a column to the right of the original ingredient amount that you noted.

After doing that for all of your supplements, make a listing based on the breakfast, lunch & dinner items that you eat that you happen to have in the house.

All of the boxes, bags & other coverings that include the ingredients. What again you are looking for, is the amount of supplementation of each type & amount that is in that food product in the amount that you eat. That may mean one or more serving sizes depending on what the product is.

Let's face it, who really eats the correct serving of Ice cream anyway?

Use the original supplement list or make a new one & leaving plenty of room along the right side for adding new products' amounts in, write up all of the supplement amounts,

When you look at an ingredient list that doesn't give specific values for all of the vitamins, minerals & "other stuff", simply give yourself a round number of 100 to start with & count the number of products in the ingredient list. The last ingredient in any list is the smallest amount of stuff in that product. That can be a trace element or most likely an expensive one.

Look at how far down the listing of ingredients your supplement is & give it a number from there. If the "normal serving" of magnesium stearate is 30mg & your suppplement is showing a list of 30 ingredients with magnesium stearate at the bottom, then figure that you are getting at least 3mg of magnesium stearate in that portion. If the m.s. is listed a lot higher but not near the top, then make it 15mg, if it is the 1st through the 10th ingredient then make it a full 30mg.

You don't have to be perfect in the figures, in most cases they are going to give you the mg, or the mcg or the I.U. amounts & you can add them up from there. There are basic amounts of all supplements that are considered daily allowable doses & these can be looked up via the fda's website.

for instance: magnesium stearate is a product that makes tablets "slick" so they slide down your throat better.  It may not seem like much, the first few pills, but you're also going to see it in antacids, possibly in some cereals, possibly in some liquids that you take on a regular basis & most likely in all supplement products. When you start to add up the fillers, the dyes & the preservative amounts...it will startle you to know just how much you are putting IN you on a regular basis.  Just how slick do you want your bodily fluids to be?

Once you have an idea of just how much of each supplement you are getting & how little of others, you will be able to see where you are lacking or overdoing your supplementation.

You may be able to "lose" some of the products that you take to combat what may be side effects from some of the other products that you took for what you thought were good reactions.

The FDA's website will give you some guidelines on their ideas of what good levels of products, supplements & such that you should have in your diet.

However, most herbalists & natural health physicians will most likely tell you that the supplementation tables are way too low in their amounts. Many have been raised in recent years due to pressures from the American medical Association's findings. We believe that many more supplement amounts will be raised in the future.

Buying your supplements online or at a brick's & mortar store may be based on the pricing of the product & the input of people around you or advertisements or simple gut feelings.  In the end what matters is that you are receiving the right amount of supplements & eating the rest to get the best benefit for your body. I can't tell you that mine is the best for you. I can't tell you that someone else's is better or worse.

I only ask that you keep a running total of what you put into your body so that if something occurs where you NEED to know; it is at your fingertips to give to your care providers.

Don't be caught short without a listing of what you are taking. don't forget something as simple as a multivitamin when that product can help you to heal something as small or potent as the flu.

buying supplements is a personal issue. I offer my products to you for the best price possible; to save trees, to give you information on how those products work to help your system. Knowing what's inside the supplements & the food that you eat, can help you to regulate your body's functions & help you to keep healthy to enjoy life...& that's what living is supposed to be about.