Eating meals with smaller amounts of fat according to Growth Zone allows for better fat absorption and utilization.

Avoiding polyunsaturated and highly unsaturated fats as much as possible increase lipogenesis, allowing the direct manufacture of saturated fats from glucose.

A healthy liver is essential for fat digestion, utilization, and storage.

A blue whale has no gall bladder, but it does have a liver that weighs 1,300 pounds.

“Remember, the word ‘nutrition’ is a compound word that is derived from nut (‘nux’ in the Latin) which means ‘light’. Nutrition literally means, ‘process of light’. And the etymology of the word ‘supplement’ means ‘fractured’ or ‘incomplete’.”

Soil minerals are not depleted by Monsanto.

They’re sold to us as supplements by Monsanto (and the rest of the Mineral Mafia).

Iron and manganese are two major contributors to Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

If a fruit or vegetable LOOKS healthy (and it’s not a GMO), it probably is healthy and has all the minerals and nutrients it requires.

Cinnamaldehyde allegedly gives cinnamon its flavor and odor.

But does that apply to all six cinnamon chemotypes? …

1) cinnamaldehyde type

2) cinnamaldehyde/cinnamyl acetate type

3) cinnamyl acetate type

4) linalool type

5) camphor type

6) mixed type

Here’s hoping the 19-year-old amateur herbalist behind the counter of your local health food store knows what chemotype he’s selling you.

Cinnamon is OK in limited quantities as long as it’s Cinnamomum zeylanicum, not Cinnamomum cassia, which contains enough coumarin to damage the liver and kidneys.

I personally think cinnamon’s health-promoting qualities are overrated compared to its therapeutic index.

Often,“The more specific the effect, the more toxic the herb or drug,” although many pharmacists and herbalists will argue the opposite.

The therapeutic index of a food is usually lower (often much lower) than that of an herb.