Your view on supplements

[Aura]

I used to buy digestive enzymes, in particular the serrapeptase, a proteolithic one.
I took it for nearly 06 months everyday, religiously, but I think they did not do anything.

Once I opened a few capsules, took a piece of raw meat and poured the dust over and left for a couple of days but there was no sign of the meat being "eaten" by the enzyme..

Dont know.. maybe that was not the way to test but also I did not feel any improvements in my health..

I bought those pills because they were supposed to shrink old blood cloths in the body.. And I had an ovarian cyst which I think it is still there.
Should go and get an ecography done to see if something changed..

Also, I bought some probiotics which gave me loose stools so I just stopped the treatment after a couple of days.

I tried drinking water kefir but it gave me gases after just one day, half a cup..

It seems my flora is fine the way it is, naturally. And I can see it. BH''.

[Haai]

Dont know.. maybe that was not the way to test

Indeed that was not a good way to test. Digestive enzymes require a certain pH range to function effectively. Furthermore, enzymes are more active at warm temperatures, for example in the human body. In the fridge they would do little, at room temp they would do more than in the fridge, but much less than in the body.

[Dr. D]

Ideally, I'd like to be able to retrieve everything from my environment.

However I'm a realist and that would require a complete working knowledge of paleo life, which is something none of us have with certainty.

So I will supplement with things that would normally be found but otherwise unattainable today: iodine would be in sea water/sea plants/ sea food. I have poor access to those so I supplement as necessary. Same goes for sea salt, or anything else necessary.

Animal foods primarily, plant foods secondary, herbs/supplements tertiary. That's my motto. Write it down.

[LePatron7]

I bought those pills because they were supposed to shrink old blood cloths in the body.. And I had an ovarian cyst which I think it is still there.
Should go and get an ecography done to see if something changed..

I think iodine in large doses has been shown to help. Not sure though. If you're interested googling the key words - iodine, dr brownstein, ovarian cyst, might yield some results.