It’s Yes No Maybe.

1) Yes. Sometimes a drug is needed to solve a problem.

Ninety-nine percent of all supplements are drugs, including vitamin C, MSM, and iodine.

Some dehydrated mushroom powders are OK as long as nothing else is added.

2) No. Whole food is almost never deficient in vitamins and minerals.

According to Don Tolman (The Indiana Jones of Whole Food) …

“All of the studies show that the nutritional component of food is not what it used to be. It’s dropped almost thirty percent in forty years. If that’s true, if that’s really true, and this [holding up a raw carrot] has thirty percent less nutrition, which I think is a bunch of crap and helps to market stuff, but if that’s true, eat two of them!”

3) Maybe. Sometimes supplements can be used to induce a homeopathic reaction.

Cramping a cramped leg (putting still more pressure on it by standing on it) is an example of homeopathy (a thief catching a thief).

He restricted his carbohydrates and loaded up on protein.

Harris A. Houghton, M.D. (“Non-septic Causes of Nephritis,” Long Island Medical Journal, May 1915) wrote …

“Some years ago, what was presumably a pure type of diabetes came under my care. It seemed quite impossible to gain his attention to anything except that he should not eat sugar. Dietary restriction, or periodic alteration and especially the idea of dietary restriction of albuminous intake seemed to be beyond comprehension. To him, eating was an end to living rather than a means and he equalized in nitrogenous food of what he was deprived in carbohydrate. Investigation showed his dietary sometimes contained as much as 250 grammes of protein. The obvious result of this was a rise in systolic arterial pressure from normal to 225 mm. in less than nine months and a quick death from cardiac dilatation. The last months of life were accompanied by all evidences of protein mal-assimilation and mal-utilization. To further illustrate: A diabetic woman, who had been advised to obtain caloric needs from protein, the carbohydrates being restricted, took a dozen raw eggs on two days in succession. The clinical condition which promptly followed resembled uremia more than diabetic coma. The blood pressure rose and the urine which had contained only traces of albumin, yielded an amount comparable to acute nephritis.

“Such experiences aid us in analyzing the final picture of diabetes. The digestion, assimilation, utilization and retention of nitrogenous material is quite as much at fault as that of the hydrocarbons and contribute to hasten the end.”