I am not easily impressed or won over by supplements. I've been taking the same quality vitamin (or so I thought) for 20 years and rarely if ever stray.
Tom Day and instructor at Serious Strength has been talking about a company and doctor for years now who helped his girlfriend (and many others) heal from a barrage of toxic insults but who remains as reclusive as a badger.
Recently he has made his products available. The website is Quantafoods. It's a primitive, cumbersome website but you can (and should) read all about Dr. Yanick's work and his ideas.
A snippet:
"Quantafood’s mission is to produce the most bioavailable and efficacious food concentrate and ferment available. In order to deliver a living bio-active whole food that is easily utilized at the cellular level and unadulterated, we have found that dry powders, capsules of dry foods or herbs and tablets fail to provide optimal nourishment. Tableting nutrients involves granulation and heat that denatures and deactivates nutrients present in the raw plant material and most powered herbs or superfoods go moldy fast having a very short shelf life."
For the first time in my life taking a supplement I have felt positive health effects. Nothing miraculous mind you, but subtle things like, waking up more rested, no hangover when I went drinking with my Greek buddy, less joint pain, less fatigue from a long day (I work 10+ hours a day nearly everyday).
What I did was shun all my previous vitamins and supplements EXCEPT for my glutamine and krill oil intake and only used Dr. Yanick's real food supplements.
I say you should give them some consideration too. And by the way, I have no financial interest with Quanta Foods. Nada. Zippo. I just want to share a good thing.
Keen to know the results of the Quanta food system
Posted by: JointPainSupplements | November 29, 2008 at 09:04 PM
It's been about 4 months now, so I thought I'd check in and see how you're doing with the Quanta foods regimen.
Posted by: Bob | August 04, 2008 at 05:39 PM
No April fool's joke JGE - not at all.
I'm not sure Dr. Eades is aware of these products Bob. But Gary Taubes is a big advocate of Weston Price.
And yes - Quanta foods is designed to enhance a healthy 21st century diet, not replace one.
Skepticsm is a good thing.
Posted by: fred hahn | April 02, 2008 at 04:40 PM
I'm a firm believer that synthetic vitamins and supplements are at best poor and at worst harmful. But I'm also instantly skeptical when a web site slings around terms like 'Quantum Medicine' and 'Homeopathy.' On the other side, the Weston A. Price foundation seems to indicate that fermented food products were/are a key part of many primitive diets. Perhaps Quantafoods' products do work to enhance a diet of whole organic fruits and vegetables and properly raised (i.e. Grass fed, free range, etc.) meats, dairy, fish and poultry.
I'd certainly be interested to hear the Dr's Eades' reviews of these products!
Which of their supplements are you taking, if you don't mind my asking?
Posted by: Bob | April 02, 2008 at 12:33 PM
April Fools joke, right?
Posted by: JGE | April 02, 2008 at 10:12 AM