Going Organic and Supplementing Your Diet

Because insects and weeds have the incredible ability of developing a resistance to the chemicals we use to try to kill them, the more chemicals we need to use.

Let’s take tomatoes for example; they start as greenhouse seedlings which are fed with synthetic fertilizer that help them grow. Then they usually transplanted to a field which has more than likely been sprayed with methyl bromide, which is a chemical that is extremely toxic that was scheduled to be banned in 2005. They are sprayed every couple of weeks with fungicides and insecticides while they grow, then they may even be picked early and artificially ripened using ethylene oxide gas.

There is an on going FDA study which is called the Total Diet Study which analyzes hundreds of foods each year for more than 100 different chemicals, tomatoes were found to be full of potentially toxic “stuff,” including chlorpyrifos, dicloran, endosulfan, permethrin, diazinon, lindane, phosphamidon, PCBs, tri (2-butoxy-ethyl), and last but not least, DDT, which was banned in 1972.

This doesn’t mean that we need to stop eating tomatoes or any other commercially grown agricultural products altogether and there is a lot that these chemicals have helped us achieve. Fortunately, there are things we can do to help minimize the potential dangers that agricultural chemicals present.

The PrivaTest® is both an accurate and a scientific way to take a picture of your most significant metabolic markers to establish the condition of your nutritional health and your body’s natural capacity to detoxify itself. In short, the PrivaTest looks at three areas of your metabolism.

The first is your urine sulfate levels, these are markers for your sulfur reserves, you liver needs these for its detoxification processes.

Secondly it measures urinary lipid peroxides. These are markers for oxidative stress and establish your body’s general antioxidant status.

And thirdly it looks at the urinary nitrates, these are markers for the regulation of nitric oxide. Nitric Oxide is a compound which is involved in many body systems, these include the immune system, the nervous system, and the circulatory system.

Research has shown that poor or altered function in these pathways may be the root cause for many of our modern degenerative diseases. That is why these three areas have been selected for testing.

Once you have taken the PrivaTest, the results are then closely analyzed to determine where you may be nutritionally deficient in general body system function. Then based on this analysis and using comparisons of your individual biometric data (height, weight, age, gender, etc.), it is then possible to create a custom formulation of nutritional supplements which are designed to achieve and maintain the optimal health of your body’s systems, aiding your body’s natural ability to detoxify itself.

Ideal Health’s, Custom Essentials.® are a customized formulation of nutrients that are based on your PrivaTest results.  It is also a good idea to consult your physician or nutritional health professional for a laboratory analysis of your metabolism and a customized dietary supplementation program.

Whatever you do, however, it is essential that you be aware of dangers posed by many of the foods we take for granted in this country, and of the steps you can take to minimize them.