These three simple suggestions will jump start your progress. If you would like additional tracking, I am available to help you. At Angie’s World, we use a BIA machine to assess your hydration, vitamin, protein, and essential fat needs. It also determines how many calories you are burning and whether or not you are toxic. In addition to the BIA, we have a Biomeridian machine (both machines are non-invasive, no needles!). The Biomeridian determines how your organs and tissues are doing – are you holding stress in your liver? Do you have a stomach parasite? There are many reasons why your body isn’t losing body fat. Allow us to be your detective to help find the root cause of your ailments.
In addition to these two great machines, I also perform structural assessments. I use a plumb line to analyze your posture. I also use inclinometers, which are tools that tell me if your hips and ribs are in their proper positions as well as if your cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spine are in their proper curvatures.
Whatever you decide to do, tracking is essential to ensure your body is improving.

Yes, you heard me – Talc, the stuff you put on baby’s butts.  I couldn’t understand why talc would be in a multivitamin so I looked it up in one of my favorite books, “Food Additives” by Ruth Winter, M.S.  This is what Ruth says about talc:

TALC Fresh chalk. Magnesium Silicate. The lumps are known as soapstone of steatite. An anticaking agent added to vitamin supplements to render a free flow; also to chewing-gum base. Gives a slippery sensation to powders and creams. Talc is finely powdered native magnesium silicate, a mineral. The main ingredient of baby and bath powders, face powders, eye shadows, liquid powders, protective creams, dry rouges, face masks, foundation cake makeups, skin freshners, foot powders, and face creams. It usually has small amounts of other powders such as boric acid or zinc oxide added as a coloring agent. Prolonged inhalation can cause lung problems because it is similar in chemical composition to asbestos, a known lung irritant and cancer-causing agent.  There is no known acute toxicity, but there is a question about it being a cancer-causing agent upon ingestion.  It is suspected that the high incidence of stomach cancer among the Japanese is due to the fact that the Japanese prefer that their rice be treated with talc.  Talc is not considered food grade by the FDA as it contains asbestiform minerals.  GRAS.

Wow!  Maybe you should take a look at your vitamins if you aren’t buying them from me.  At Angie’s World, we only carry the purest products that are GMP (good manufacturing practice) certified and NSF (national standard federation) certified. These certifications mean that third parties go into the supplement companies manufacturing plants to make sure that the place is clean (free of bugs, debris, etc.) and that each pill you take gives you exactly the dose it claims on the bottle.  Without third party testing you are rely on the vitamin company to tell you the truth.   How honest do you think Mr. Doctor is?