Osteo Bi Flex Triple Strength, and fish oil capsules

or the other organics place a few blocks from them, but I have to go over 100 miles to get to either one.

I get my supplements from a great company I work with, sprayed with essential oils which increase potency.

Good prices, great sales
Their website has true-size pics of the pills, a great help if someone has trouble with large pills.

And who do you think is marketing these natural so-called cures? That's right. Big Pharma.

Why spend millions to demonstrate efficacy and safety for a product when, if you call it a supplement you can avoid all those expensive federal regulations. Sure, you cannot claim to be able to cure anything, but you can legally claim the Orwellian structure/function advantages.

Buy Sodium Vibraphone! It supports the immune system! Sorry. The mammalian immune system does just fine without expensive quackery.

Toxins!!! Just look at all those evil toxins we can leech out of the soles of your feet! Sorry. Your liver does a great job eliminating toxins from your bloodstream. Evolution did that, too. It's what finally stops your hangover, don't you know. And, No! Coffee enemas don't do it either. But maybe you like latte up your butt. Fun is fun. But don't pretend that it has anything to do with toxins.

Medicine is medicine. Quackery is quackery. If I could afford it, I would do the former; I can't. But I sure as hell wouldn't choose the latter.

If I could afford it, I would choose Science Based Medicine.

Should we foam at the mouth over those as well?

If it's an MD who has an actual medical education and a standard of care, I would not be too worried. But if it were a fake doctor, like so-called a naturopathic doctor (an ND, more accurately termed as Not a Doctor), or the other quackery titles, like homeopaths, chiropractors, or other non-science based health care, I would run away.

Medicine is complex because biology is very complex. Anybody who claims to have a cure for a disease had better damned well have science behind their claims.

There is all sorts of quackery in the medicinal arts. Even some with MDs may give into quackery. But the science weeds them out.

Like Stanislaw Burzynski who has bilked many cancer sufferers for thousands of dollars, using an outright scam.

But the real doctors cannot compare to the outright quackery of homeopathy, naturopathy, and chiropractic, none of whom have any in depth medical education. They certainly do not practice anything close to science. Science figures what's real and what is not. Pseudoscience never does.

If I could afford to see a doctor, it would be an MD, and they would be the smartest one I could find.

I always read the research (the actual papers, not some marketing stuff) before taking them. Most supplements that I have looked into did not seem nearly as promising after ready the studies. I think probably people take too many - the main concern is whether they do any harm. I take one supplement because studies show it does have a small but real effect, and it is for a condition that is important to me.

In general, I have to say that "Big Pharma" has done wonders for my life, and particularly the life of my parents. I understand it has its problems, but I can't criticize it too much.

They have a good selection of vitamins / minerals and their store brand is pretty good as far as I can see. Last time I ordered was a while ago now, but they had a flat shipping rate no matter how big the order, which is way cool. You can look at their customer comments on their products too.

with a USP label on it (US Pharmacopia). Nature Made and Kirkland (Costco) are the largest manufacturer.

The US Pharmacopia label means that an outside testing agency (the same one that tests drugs) has evaluated the manufacturing process, tested the end result for concentration, amount and bio-availability.

I use Vitamin D due to D levels that were near rickets, and Fish Oil.

They have all the good brands like Douglas Labs, Allergy Research and Thorne Research. I only buy vitamins from labs known to test for purity.
I have lowered my blood pressure naturally with magnesium, potassium and l'arginine and my cholesterol with time release niacin. However, I also have been veg juicing for 2 months. Working it from both angles.