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There are two parts to this page first is a legal disclaimer and second a holistic product warning

Legal Disclaimer: Consult your health care professional before any medical procedure, process, nutriment, concept, process or product mentioned on this site. No information on any page on this site is meant to recommend any health treatment, stop any treatment, or offer medical advice. I am a researcher and compile information. I am not responsible for any damage, losses, success, failure or health results from the contents of this site. Viewer is required to make their own decisions about any information achieved on or through this site from their own judgment or independent research. I am not a doctor or related in any way to any medical profession. Viewer is encouraged to use key words found in various articles and perform search engine queries to add to or verify any item or concept on this site and to consult their health care professional. The health information on this web site may not be medical science or to be considered medical advice. The best effort will be conducted to provide scientific sources for your consideration and the author takes no responsibility for any claims or recommendations offered by linked sites. This information is the authors opinion that may or may not be true and may or may not be backed up by links and or sources. This information does not recommend any health product or treatment and does not profit from any health or nutrition item or product. This is just for your information. This information is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease, disorder, pain, injury, deformity, physical or mental condition or to suggest one. Consult your doctor or health care professional for any health issue.

Nutrition Warning or Disclaimer: Vitamins, diets, and holistic therapies and products must not be assumed to be good without careful evaluation. The medical concern against holistic products stating that they are not regulated or have a standard for manufacturing have a sound basis for their complaints. I am not for FDA regulation yet there are serious problems from the commercialization of holistic products. As an example my research on EDTA found that many of the sites promoting an EDTA product claims that it helps clean the arteries, yet there is no proof of this anywhere that I can find. Yes there are numerous observations many by reputable doctors yet no scientific studies to verify the observations. This makes the observations no more than a testimonial by effected persons making the claims, likewise it does not disprove it either. The problem is that often the companies selling nutritional preparations build a marketing program to make a profit without valid scientific proof that the product does in fact do what they claim. In the numerous EDTA products I evaluated most state that their product is better than all the others on the market. I discovered that there are several chemical differences within two groups of EDTA. One being a calcium sodium solution and the other being just sodium. There is no way to determine if brand "x" is better than brand "z" because they do not reveal their chemical properties, their potency for the selected properties, or their source for ingredients. Thus brand "x" could be twice as good at half the price as brand "z" and there is no way to know. In researching "MIROMEDEX" a web site for doctors that is not open to the public the interventions dosage of EDTA is 100 times that listed on the oral product I purchased for effectiveness to remove lead. In other words the product I am taking is 10% of what medical science indicates is needed to remove lead. (DO NOT ASSUME THAT ALL HOMOPATHIC REMEDIES ARE LIKE MY "EDTA" WITH LOWER DOSES THAN MAY BE NEEDED AND DO NOT INCREASE THEIR RECOMMENDED DOSES WITHOUT RELIABLE PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL ADVICE.) Of even greater concern is that the medical site lists side effects that are the same as those listed on many of the EDTA sites as illnesses cured by the product. This is typical of all products for example; aspirin is derived from the inner bark of an Aspen tree and taking too little will not stop a headache while too much will cause a headache or can kill you.

I am paying an exorbitant price for an EDTA product that according to the med site is not enough to make a difference, is not proved to do what they claim and their only proof are testimonials and marketing statements. Many of the EDTA sites have pictures of arteries before and after yet they are not photographs of actual persons but pictures created by an artist.

What does this all mean?

  • Holistic products usually have a sound basis for improving health.
  • Since there are no standards to use to evaluate one product against another there is no way to insure the product is what is claims to be. This applies to all nutrition even natural foods.
  • There is no way to determine if one brand has as much of a vitamin or herb as another.
  • Too many holistic products rely on testimonials not reliable research.
  • Too many holistic products take a proven fact obtained from valid research and expand it with unsubstantiated claims to make their product appear to be as good or better than it may be.
  • Beware of Individual testimonials which are less than worthless.
    • Why it is that marketers use and readers accept testimonials is beyond my comprehension.
    • They seldom have verification that the statement is from a real person.
    • It is not uncommon for a marketer to write testimonials and claim someone else wrote them.
    • There is no way to follow up on the person to see if a future problem does not occur.
    • There is no way to compare such statements with circumstances that may alter your experience.
    • It is like buying a certain brand of car. You may have an excellent experience, then the next year a bad experience with the same car or brand. How many times has a friend or family member recommended a certain brand of car or gadget and you had a bad experience with it?

I am not against holistic products in fact I am adamantly in favor of them and opposed to or very careful of taking prescriptions. The same standard must be applied to both in that I carefully evaluate and research a vitamin or herb just as I have learned the hard way to do for a prescription. I treat my Doctor as a hired professional consultant not my ultimate decision maker. Many holistic products can have an overdose problem and some are even dangerous. In contrast all drugs are a poison and must be used accordingly. For example oxygen is a free radical yet we cannot live without it and the moment we take our first breath it begins to kill us as well as keep us alive. Probiotics and antioxidants are reported to minimize oxygen free radicals but will not prevent our death from it. Likewise poisonous drugs are often life saving and can slow the death process but not stop it such as the insulin I have to inject every day. It is a poison that is causing organ damage, yet at this time I cannot live without it. My choice is to prolong my life even though it may eventually kill me while without it I am certain to die much sooner.

This site recommends carefully evaluating any of our research and consult reliable medical personnel using caution in all health products or issues both traditional medical and homeopathic. It is probable that what we report on today will be outdated next month and it is impossible to keep up with all changes.

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