Re: Hv, Good friend diagnosed with Hepatitis C

 I agree that food sources are the best, but therein lies the problem of soil mineral variance. Without soil, food, or post-injestion tests, how do we know what levels of a nutrient that we are getting?

We don't. On the other hand people tend to think that we need much higher levels of vitamins and minerals than we really do. Look at all the times I have had to tell people not to use B100s because you cannot utilize all the B vitamins in a B50 so you definitely are not going to utilize all the B vitamins in a B100.

The fact is that most nutrients are required by the body in small levels and with the amount we eat per day, plus the body's own production of some nutrients it is not really that hard to get the level of nutrients we need from a decent diet, and maybe minor supplementation. On the other hand wildcrafted herbs are going to be much higher in nutrients than most foods since they grow in richer soils, are subjected to more stresses that raise their active constituents, and are picked fully developed. This is one of the  major reasons I prefer herbal based vitamins to synthetic ones.