EC Ophthalmology

It is time for us to take charge of our own health since this will ultimately help us not only with our minds to think clearly but also to see the world a lot more clearly! We all know that nutrient deficiencies have become more common in our society as well as even amongst the people who “eat well”. And it all comes back to the soil our food is grown in. We have all heard the phrase “you are what you eat” but what we really are is whatever the thing we have eaten has eaten. With mineralization not what it used to be since the early 1950’s and also with cows and chickens being fed corn and other types of feed which is not part of their everyday diet; foods are less nutrient dense and can be hazardous overall to our health. But instead of eating twice the amount of food just to get the right amount of nutrients we need the goal is to find out exactly what you can be doing on a daily basis to correct these deficiencies.

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