Supplements

Fri Apr 24, 2020

From Randy -

I take 10,000 IUs per day and my level is about 100. I also use the GrassrootsHealth.com testing program where I get a blood test every 6 months to see my levels. I believe I get 100 tablets of 10,000 IU for about $7. That's about $2.50 per month.

I don't know that we ever had 4-year-old chickens. We were feeding hawks, owls, a fox and other local predators. We started out with about 25 a couple of times and ended up with half a dozen. They stopped laying in the winter, even with a light. Then it was "Easter egg hunt" all around inside the barn and outside here and there. Periodically we would do a roundup to collect everything, put them in water, keep the good ones, and throw the rest into the forest.

I'm glad (hoping) we're past freezing temperatures.

Be well.

Randy

PS. Dr. Joel Wallach grew up around here, majored in field crops, became a veterinarian then a medical doctor. His dad was a dairy farmer. They supplemented their cattle feed, but didn't for their own food. That disparity caused his curiosity and focus on minerals and vitamins. After spending a couple of years in Africa documenting diseases with autopsies, he hypothesized that all of the animal diseases result from a deficiency of something. With his medical degree he was able to treat human diseases by supplementing similarly to the animals. He has an entertaining audio disk: "Dead Doctors Don't Lie." The title comes from data he collected showing that the lifespan of MDs is shorter than the average person. He suggests that infers that doctors are not as smart as they believe themselves to be, and that we can still learn from research. He's written half a dozen or more books. One I read thoroughly examined each mineral element and vitamin. He described how it was first identified (often in a Scandinavian country), how it was used historically, sources, applications, toxicities and so forth. Normally I read at a steady pace. But in that book I had a red pencil and learned many new and interesting things, sometimes on the same page.