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You could save a bunch of money every month and get even healthier to boot, all in about 15 minutes. Easy.

Odds are, that you aren’t using muscle building supplements  or Hcg supplements or any other highly specialized product. But, you are likely taking a multiple vitamin, maybe some B’s, E’s, C’s, calcium, or vitamin D.

So are you better off taking them? Depends.

Here’s my spin on this topic. If I could no longer get whole food supplements I wouldn’t take anything. That’s right, vitamin supplements can be bad for you. They can also save your life. It just depends on what you take.

Would you like to eat the orange peel and not the inside? or maybe the banana peel instead of the nice sweet inside. That’s exactly what happens when you take an antioxidant. OK, don’t quit reading just yet.

Antioxidants are important for protecting the precious vitamins inside the fruit not for protecting your body. Much like the way a peel protects the whole fruit.

I’m slightly off topic but I’m going to attempt to reel it back in. Vitamin E attracts a lot of attention as being good for the heart and other muscles. Now if you go look at a bottle of vitamins you’ll likely see…


  • d-alpha tocopherol or

  • dl-alpha tocopherol

These are regarded as vitamin E by most people. In reality, they are just antioxidant rings and really only one of many that normally exist in nature.

If you go whack open a wheat berry in your grain grinder you’ll be eating natural vitamin E as it was intended to exist and buried down deep inside the vitamin matrix is the mineral selenium.

This is why the average vitamin bottle on the shelf really stinks for making you healthier and wastes a ton of your money. A really cheap vitamin E supplement will only have alpha-tocopherol and no selenium so you body now becomes the doner.

You will now slowly become selenium deficient the longer you take the artificial stuff. Just for fun, look up “Selenium Deficiency” in Google.

This concept is pretty important along with many other little things that make supplement buying a little tricky. It all boils down to getting a whole, natural, unadulterated product.

If you want to know the good, the bad, and the ugly, I’ll answer any questions you have about supplements for free through out the month of February.

When an average patient brings in 10 bottles of supplements 2-3 are good, 1-2 are acceptable, and the rest fall into the ugly and dangerous category.

I’m in the office Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday (mornings). Just bring in your bottles, even if you aren’t a patient of mine, I’ll give you the straight scoop and potentially save you a bunch of money every month and make you healthier.

I know what your thinking. “Fine, I’ll just take nothing, right.” Wrong, one of the most improtant things I do every day is take whole food supplements and herbs. They are tremendously helpful and neccessary by almost every one. I have yet to meet someone who doen’t need some kind of supplementation.

Let me help you be healthier,
-Dr. Altman
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“How’s your liver today?”
-An old Russian greeting

My assumption is that they were referring to how much vodka they drank last night. I’m assuming you aren’t drinking vodka on that kind of scale, but there are lots of other ways to pollute and toxify your liver.

The liver is the most resilient organ you have. It has to be, because it takes the most abuse and is responsible for cleaning your body of the garbage that comes in.

5 ways you can totally pollute your liver:

  1. Alcohol … that’s an obvious one
  2. Smoking … and second hand smoke
  3. Pesticides … this is particularly nasty, you get this if you aren’t consuming organic food
  4. Medications … they plan medication doses on how fast the liver breaks them down. This is why some medications don’t want you eating grapefruit, because it slows down liver clearing.
  5. Partially hydrogenated oils … you have to look for these on the label, on the back label in the ingredients. These are so nasty that they can take months to be cleared.

There are lots more ways, but I think you get the message. There are many common and universal ways your liver comes in contact with pollution. So now what?

Your liver has to get rid of that gunk. To do it, it needs foods and herbs. Things like kale, Brussels sprouts, beets, eggs, contribute special nutritional components that your liver uses to break the junk up into manageable pieces and gets the garbage out.

We also take it a step farther with LivCo form Mediherb. This is a herbal formula that takes into account liver cleaning herbs and the most important herb “Milk Thistle”. Milk Thistle has been used for liver health darn near, forever. It has been know for thousands of years to help heal the liver.

This is one of the herbal supplements I take everyday. Why? remember the simple toxin list above. I get hit with at least one of those everyday. Keeping the body as clean as possible is important to me. Toxins lead to obesity and much nastier things that start with a big “C”.

LivCo was formulated primarily for liver detoxification. It helps supply the body some of those good elements for both phases of liver deotxification. Here are a few things that may give you some pause and consider using this supplement:

  • Headaches
  • Allergies
  • Skin Problems
  • Food intolerance’s
  • Nausea
  • Constipation
  • Alcohol consumption

If LivCo is something you want to talk more about or order just send me an email docaltman [at] gmail [dot] com
or call the order line 612-BE-GREAT

“How’s your liver today?”
-Dr. Altman

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