Hummm, this "library" of digits will too one day be torched
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria
Meanwhile... thoughts for the day:
I am not into supplements, herbal or otherwise. I am not into concentrated agents in general. Nature has put the full spectrum of optimum nutrition for us in our native foods *in the correct balances*. Supplements are essentially refined food, and all refined foods are not in correct balance with the body's needs, and can (and do) throw our systems off balance.
The idea that foods have become so "denatured" and lacking in nutrition in recent times as to be inadequate, and therefore requiring supplementation, is an incorrect idea conceived and promulgated by people who have never eaten correctly (SAD) to begin with, and have no idea that optimum sustainable health is well within reach. These folks are "so near and yet so far".
Supplements and "medications", however well intentioned, are pathogenic agents.
The Alternative Medicine model is still in the final analysis just another medical model. But any medical model is faulty because it looks at things in pieces, and does not recognize that concentrated substances throw the body's innate critical health balances into disarray. So optimum health will never be achieved via the supplement/medication model -- the creator is smarter than us:)
There are course times and situations that call for medical intervention (whether standard western or alternative), but you have to be smarter than the model if you want to achieve sustainable optimum health.
Credit for the above goes completely to Dr. Doug Graham, the most innovative and brilliant thinker on sustainable optimum health I am aware of. He may be most famous for coining the term 80/10/10, referring to a caleo nutrient ratio of 80% carbohydrate, 10% protein, and 10% fat, and his book of the same title. But Dr. Graham is so much more than a calo nutrient ratio, and I recommend him unreservedly.
On a somewhat related note, you may find this brief video clip from a presentation by Dr. Joel Furman interesting. The key line is "about 80 years ago science discovered vitamins and minerals".
Well that's not really all that long ago is it? here's the vid
