Nightmare

In a certain way, all this is actually a good sign - a natural
consequence of the explosion in holistic nutrition and supplementation.
Because in the midst of the quagmire of hype and junk science, some
truly superlative items have emerged onto the marketplace which have
benefitted indirectly from biomedical advances evolved in the
challenged, time-bomb world of mainstream pharmacology. Most of the new
holistic supplements are less toxic than standard pharmaceutical drugs,
because they're in a category the FDA calls GRAS (Generally Regarded As
Safe. That's probably more than we can say for Prozac, fen-phen, and
Viagra.) Many of the extraordinary holistic supplements won't be sold in
stores, and no one is going to give them away. So welcome to the
American marketplace. Very time-consuming and confusing is the screening
process one must go through to unearth the treasures that can reward the
patient and resolute search. Caveat emptor.
Are minerals important? Two-time Nobel prize winner Linus Pauling
thought so: "You can trace every sickness, every disease, every ailment
to mineral deficiency."
Using the image of Carrel's solutes in the petri dish as the analogue of
blood in our bodies, adequate mineral content is undoubtedly an
advantage and a vital component of the body's own solutes in its
constant effort to cleanse and operate all its cells at an optimum
metabolic vibrancy and resilience. After childhood, healthy people don't
get sick. Ever.