What is natural, and what is not

motheroffoursons

I am getting confused by the throwing around of the word natural to describe supplements.  For instance, DIM is described as being natural as it was originally derived from cruciferous vegetables.  However, the supplemts have undergone much chemical treatment to arrive in the shape of a pill.

Taxol, a very strong chemotherapy drug was originally developed fro the bark of the Yew tree.  Does that make this form of chemotherapy natural?

FloridaLady

Good question.  I think the key is for natural you could get it from nature in it's natural form but possibly not in a high enough dose or diet too help you.  Also many herbs and supplements have been kill off in our country because or urban growth and mass farming techniques.  Are grandparents probably had many of the things naturally in their diet and we now eat so much process foods and not local foods we have lost these valuable resources.

Chemo is a toxic drug because of the ingredients and the dose given to you all at once. We would not naturally eat a bark of a Yew tree....but this is not the big issue, it's the other ingredients in the chemo that make it toxic like Mustard Gas, bacterias like ecoil, the most toxic part is the metals added too chemo. These are not ingredients a human would eat normally.

Flalady