{"id":26915,"date":"2021-05-31T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wholehealthchicago.com\/blog\/?p=26915"},"modified":"2022-11-14T13:48:43","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T19:48:43","slug":"stop-stressing-over-supplements-with-wholehealth-chicagos-new-supplement-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wholehealthchicago.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/31\/stop-stressing-over-supplements-with-wholehealth-chicagos-new-supplement-plans","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Our New WholeHealth Supplement Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you\u2019re a WholeHealth Chicago patient, you\u2019ve likely noticed that we review your list of nutritional supplements during each appointment. Conventional doctors ask what prescription meds you\u2019re taking (and of course we do too), but virtually never solicit a list of supplements. Since our area of expertise lies precisely there, it\u2019s important for us to know what supplements you\u2019re taking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What I\u2019ve noticed (as have my associates) is that patients are often a bit disorganized when it comes to their daily supplement regimen. You might be missing one or two that we\u2019d regard as really important just because you ran out and forgot to re-order. Or, just as bad, you\u2019ve been wasting your money on some supplement of marginal quality that was praised to the sky by a health food store clerk. You\u2019ve long forgotten what it\u2019s for, but continue to buy it month after month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may even have what I call a vitamin graveyard on your kitchen shelves or in a medicine cabinet. You\u2019ll recognize these products by their layer of faintly greasy dust, long past their expiration dates, and you wonder why you ever bought them in the first place (A late night infomercial? A former friend who went into multi-level marketing?).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why we take supplements<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s worthwhile to understand just why we take supplements, and this starts with dividing everything on your shelf into two categories. Group One is for health maintenance and disease prevention, Group Two is for specific health concerns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Group One\u2014Health Maintenance<\/span> You should take a good general multiple vitamin to make up for the fact that less than 25% of us actually eat the recommended daily five servings of fruits and veggies. You also should be taking vitamin D since the sky is so often overcast and we rarely expose much of our skin to direct sunlight. There are a handful of other supplements I\u2019d include in this category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Group Two–Specific Health Concerns<\/span> These supplements might include glucosamine\/chondroitin if you have arthritis, St. John\u2019s wort for depression, or berberine if you\u2019ve got cholesterol issues and don\u2019t want to take a statin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WholeHealth Plans<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s limit this Health Tip to Group One so I can introduce a new system called WholeHealth Plans. The objective is to keep you regularly supplied with the highest quality supplements at prices that will definitely save you money. You\u2019ll no longer find yourself running out of essential supplements. You\u2019ll no longer waste time standing in the supplement aisle at Whole Foods reading label after label trying to decide if one brand is better than another<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each month a box will arrive with the supplements you need. We include the top brands carried in our Apothecary: Integrative Therapeutics, Metagenics, Xymogen, Pure Encapsulations, Thorne, and others, many sold only through the practices of healthcare professionals.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to the basics, nothing is written in stone. Some of you have self-curated very sophisticated supplement regimens and you can add or subtract your own selections at very substantial savings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And finally, since many of you now include intravenous (IV) therapies as part of your optimal health program, we\u2019ve developed two additional plans that include our most popular IVs<\/a>.
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Here are the details<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Plan #1 Total Wellness<\/span>
These are the essentials, your supplement foundation. For $119 a month (and a 5% discount on all other supplements), we\u2019ll deliver a month\u2019s supply of the highest quality basics:<\/p>\n\n\n\n