Supplemental Surprise

The 6th Pillar of Health is Supplementation. I find this pillar to be especially daunting but Dr. Don Colbert clarifies much of the mystique by stating that all the average person really needs is:

• A Multivitamin/Multimineral supplement

• An Omega-3 Fish Oil capsule

• Phytonutrient powder (Green, red, orange, purple).

Sounds simple enough. Of course, he recommends high quality versions of these and warns about the downfalls of using inferior products with fillers, rancid oils and impotent nutrients.

Since January I have completed a 30-day Herbal cleanse and I'm just finishing up a 30-day Heavy Metal cleanse. During cleanses I didn't supplement at all because the focus was on making sure I took the capsules particular to those routines. Before and in between cleanses I used some drugstore-grade vitamin samples my doctor gave me and some leftover products from other programs I've tried. Nothing fancy.

The truth is that I've always been a terrible supplement taker and it's an accomplishment in itself to actually consistantly consume any products that I buy. It's incredible that I've been able to "take my pills" consistantly thus far.

With a mere 5 days before the end of the Heavy Metal cleanse I am looking ahead to my future supplementation needs and hoping to make a smooth transition from the cleanse to my new supplements.

Then I began to price them. Ouch.

My supplementation fancy wasn't just for me but for my whole family. We all should be taking vitamins. After a visit to a few online sites, however, I realized that to buy what we would need on a monthly basis for our family would be the equivalent of a car payment! I didn't even have to have the obligatory talk with Shawn to know that it wasn't going to happen. Even if we were really wealthy, would we spend that kind of money on vitamins on a regular basis? I don't think so, but I guess people do.

We are going to begin supplementing though and my plan is to do my research to find products that contain what we need for a price we can swallow....literally. This could take some time. Does it work if you take 1/2 doses of quality products every other day?

Shawn is still in the stone age. He thinks Flinstone vitamins are all the kids need.

I was wary about posting my search for affordable supplements because I want to be able to do my research without undue pressure to buy from any particular source and I have no desire to sell supplements in order to get them at a discount...if you know what I mean. I do invite anyone who knows of reasonably good products that meet Don's specifications above to point them out for my online or catalogue review. No meetings or presentations please.

This is going to be interesting! I'll keep you posted.