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Standard Process Whole Food Supplements

"Whole food nutrition begins with sun, water, and fertile soil." - Dr. Royal Lee

Since 1929, Standard Process has grown from a company with one product, the multi-vitamin Catalyn®, to a company that now offers three lines of high-quality products:

• Standard Process whole food supplements

• Standard Process Veterinary Formulas™

• Medi-Herb herbal products

Standard Process is dedicated to growing high-quality ingredients on their certified organic farmland, so that you will receive the best in whole food nutrition for years to come.

Information U-Can-Use

Information is the key to helping yourself to better understand why nutrition is so important to your overall health and well-being. We at Gerhardt Chiropractic are committed to providing you with information that you can use to support your health and combat the underlying causes of dis-ease.

BRIEF HISTORY OF WHOLE FOOD NUTRITION

DR. WESTON PRICE

In the early 1900's, Dr. Weston Price, a dentist, performed extensive research on primitive natives during his travels around the world. He found to his amazement that these people, cut off from civilization, demonstrated no signs whatsoever of degenerative and auto-immune conditions like arthritis, diabetes, dental cavities, cancer, heart problems, and osteoporosis. In fact, Dr. Price discovered that these people were extremely healthy, so he paid particular attention to their eating habits. He noticed not only that they ate a wide variety of herbs and vegetables, but that they regularly consumed large amounts of animal flesh.

When these cultures ate an animal, they ate the whole thing, including the fat, organs and glands. They even boiled the bones in their soup to get out all of the fat-soluble vitamins that are found in the marrow. They prized the fatty, marbelized meats over the leaner meats and consumed eggs, milk, and dairy products. In all traditional cultures, some animal products are eaten raw. Primitive diets have a high food enzyme content from raw dairy products, raw meat, raw fish, and raw honey. Tropical fruits,, wine, unpasteurized beer, fermented vegetables, seeds, grains, sprouts, beans, and cold-pressed oils from fish, olives, flax, and coconuts were commonly consumed. All traditional diets contained some salt and made use of animal bones. These nourished and healthy people ate diets very high in fat and oils including butter, lard, chicken fat, goose fat, duck fat, coconut oil, palm oil, and sesame oil.

The diets of healthy, non-industrialized peoples contain at least four times the calcium and other minerals and ten times the fat-soluble vitamins found in animal fats as the modern day American diet. Of course, their diets contained no denatured foods such as refined sugar, corn syrup, white flour, canned foods, hydrogenated vegetable oils, artificial vitamins, additives, preservatives, colorings, and no pasteurized, homogenized, skim, or low-fat milk.

Dr. Price monitored these people for several decades and proved that degenerative diseases and poor health started to take hold on these once healthy people within one generation of eating modern, industrialized food. As of the year 2005, most Americans are already third and fourth generations of consumers of processed food. With each passing generation, the health of the general population continues to further decline in a downward spiral. Imagine what is in store for future generations if we blindly stay on our current path.

DR. ROYAL LEE

Dr. Royal Lee, another dentist, founded Standard Process in 1929. Raised on a farm near Dodgeville, Wisconsin, his interest in science and nutrition began early at the local elementary school. At age 12, he compiled a notebook of definitions on biochemistry and nutrition, and he began collecting books on these subjects. What started as a hobby continued throughout his lifetime to eventually become part of the Dr. Royal Lee Memorial Library.

Dr. Lee graduated in 1924 from Marquette University Dental School in Wisconsin. While attending the university, the importance of nutrition became a major interest of his. A paper he prepared in 1923 outlined the relationship of vitamin deficiency to tooth decay and showed the necessity of vitamins in the diet. His research led to the development of CATALYN®, a vitamin concentrate derived from natural sources. Introduced in 1929, CATALYN became the nucleus of a complete line of nutritional supplements at the Vitamin Products Company.

Dr. Lee believed the key to maintaining the quality of nutritional supplements was a unique manufacturing process. He designed high-vacuum, low-temperature drying equipment to preserve the maximum nutrients of the whole foods. These technologies continue to be used today.

From a small two-room facility, the Vitamin Products Company has evolved into the present company we call Standard Process Inc. in Palmyra, Wisconsin. Standard Process is still family-owned and operated. The company is continually growing, building on expert research and quality manufacturing first imposed by Dr. Lee.

In addition to his work in the nutrition field, Dr. Lee was the inventor of a wide variety of dental, mechanical, automotive and electrical equipment. He filed over 70 patents for all types of equipment, processes, internal combustion engines and food products.

MODERN DAY MALNUTRITION

Statistics undeniably show that obesity is out of control, and degenerative diseases are steadily increasing at an alarming rate. Cancer, which has slowly risen up the ladder over the years from number 25 on the list, has finally toppled heart disease as the number one killer, and sperm counts in American males have steadily declined over the past several decades. Basically, we are slowly poisoning ourselves with fake food and starving ourselves from eating real food. We are truly a nation that is over fed, but under nourished. Foolish fads, false claims, and scare tactics, such as low fat diets, cholesterol myths, and unnecessary medications have produced side effects of gargantuan proportion. In a last-ditch and desperate effort, people are blindly swallowing the flavor-of-the-month synthetic vitamins like candy, but they are doing more harm than good, seeing as how they are nothing but more unnatural chemicals that are made in a laboratory.

THE TRUTH ABOUT SYNTHETIC VITAMINS

Synthetic vitamins are generally unwanted by our bodies, which is why they usually turn the urine into a glow-in-the-dark, yellow/green color . The body recognizes these substances as unnatural and potentially harmful and does everything in it’s power to eliminate them. The body has to spend it’s own water, energy, and vitamin reserves to detoxify synthetic vitamins in the liver and kick them out through the kidneys. Even though these substances may be mostly water-soluble, it does not mean that they just automatically float right on out of the body, with no harm done. No, the body has to go through great expense to deal with these substances and uses resources that would be better reserved for other bodily functions. Most people’s systems are already overwhelmed with the burden of detoxification and elimination of harmful substances. Instead of throwing more fuel on the fire, we should release the body from chemical insults, periodically detoxify the liver, and allow the organs of digestion to get a rest. We also need to feed the cells and organs with natural, healthy foods and supplement our diets only with organically-grown whole food concentrates.

Warning - Disclaimer:

The information in this website may not necessarily be the expressed opinion of Standard Process, Inc. and also may not be substantiated by the FDA. The information presented herein is not intended to be a substitute for appropriate medical care or prescription medications. It is not the desire or intention of this practitioner to diagnose and treat disease, but to support the underlying nutritional debts, deficits, and imbalances of dis-ease. This information is not to be used for self-diagnosis and self-treatment, but for educational purposes only. This information is provided with the understanding that the author is not liable for the misconception or misuse of information included. The author of this manual shall have neither liability nor responsibility to any person or entity with respect to any loss, damage or injury caused directly or indirectly by the information contained in this manuscript.