SUPPLEMENTS - How many should I take?

 

Are you being led down a garden path thinking that the more supplements you take the healthier you will be.  Think again.  Here are a few basic facts that you need to understand when making an informed decision about which supplements to take and also how many to take.

1. Everything that you take orally has to pass into your stomach and then the intestines and then taken by the portal vein, that is the vein that takes all your digested food to your liver.  Nothing gets into your blood stream without passing through your liver first.  This is called "FIRST PASS" from the understanding of modern medicine. Your liver takes all the "dumb and dead" food, supplements, herbs, pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals and has to change them into intelligent blood.  My goodness, your poor liver is overworked.  Not only does it has to detoxify all the modern day chemicals we take in but now we are adding to its load.  That is the firs thing you have to understand

2.  Everything you apply to the skin goes directly into you bloodstream and by-passes you liver.  In the pharmaceutical industry this is used to get drugs into the blood by using patches.  The most common ones most people have heard of are NICOTINE PATCH, ESTROGEN PATCH, FENTANYL PATCH.  So why are they administering these drugs using a patch on the skin? Because if taken orally the liver will destroy most of the nicotine, estrogen or fentanyl and only a small a amount or maybe none at all will arrive at its destination and create an effect.

The great Ayurvedic scholar and my mentor Vaidya Rama Kant Mishra cognized that almost all the people with modern day life styles had a "hot liver" or liver that was overworked trying to detoxify and metabolize and process everything coming into the system. Even the herbs that would commonly work to create balance and healing are not working because the liver could not handle them.  As a result he formulated two systems of herbal administration: 1) Bypassing the liver totally by apply the specially formulated herbs to the skin and thus get them into the blood without going through the liver, avoiding first-pass. 2) Oral drops that carried the intelligence of the herbs but not the crude herb that caused difficulties for the liver.

This is not to say you can never take supplements but you need to be very selective and minimize the amount.  Muscle testing would be a good way to decide if your body would benefit.