I use herbs and vitamins, home grown food, and knowledge started when I read a book on nutrition while waiting from late AM to late after noon winds to die down while a crop sprayer in June of '72. I was one of the last to spray DDT in the US. I got accidentally poisoned by Toxaphene which hit just as I was diving into a field surrounded by wires. Took 15 minutes to wear off enough to do the job, and until the afternoon to fully feel OK.
It started me on a quest for nutritional and agricultural knowledge (along with my other numerous quests for knowledge). I learned some things too late to save family and friends, but have helped others. Sure, a lot of stuff is hype, and there are a lot of nutritional supplement profiteers and frauds. Not everything can be cured or helped. I do not remember the last time I got sick. I take supplements for traumatic arthritis which have minimal effect. The ones for my heart have kept it and my arteries clear and healthy. The anti-cancer ones and immunity ones have kept me from getting cancers others my age and younger got, and free of sickness.
I am in a high risk category from Agent Orange exposure, smoking up until 4-4-04, heavy drinking from '86 to '96, family history of heart disease and cancer. I have to take extra Liv 52 for Hep C I got from the blood of RVN wounded. I cut back too much and damage began to return that had been removed by the stuff. Can't get by with insufficient doses. I can't always get what I need even from my Earthship and outside garden foods, so take kelp and veg & fruit pills. Radiation from the sun can cause burn in as little as 15 minutes many days here at 8,880'.
These things really work, but require a great deal of study and wisdom in their use.
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). For all I know, they use more synthetic fertilizers than those who grow the bland counterparts at the supermarket. Frankly, I don't care. My diet is sufficiently rich in nutrients.