Our Philosophy
What does "good health" mean to you? How do you know whether you should supplement your diet? What are your goals for energy, stamina, clear thinking and procreating healthy children?

Answers to those important questions are not quick and easy. You are going to have to give time and thought to your own unique situation. You need to develop your philosophy of health. In times like these, with all the stresses of modern living, you cannot afford to be lackadaisical; you cannot take good health for granted. Lackadaisical means "without vigor or determination." It is high time for you to be vigorously determined to understand and obtain optimal health.

Think about what you are. Inside your skin, which is made up of billions of special cells, exists a universe of molecules—trillions upon trillions of them—all communicating and transporting in a virtual civilization of biochemicals that compose a unique individual—you.

You are a mind-brain-body combination creature and you have been designed by nature to perform a myriad functions during a lifetime—walking, talking, running, playing, working, doing, building, loving, sharing, procreating. Scientists are just beginning to figure out some of the complexities that make us tick. What we do know for sure is that our bodies are designed to be nourished. Get that! The word is nourished—not junked. The biggest oxymoron in our language today is junk-food. It is time to pay serious attention to what it takes to properly nourish your body in our sophisticated, convenient, packaged "junk" society.

At Carotec, we guarantee high quality products and reliable information; we also live by a philosophy of health that has stood the test of time. Our philosophy proclaims that optimal health is directly linked to the individual cells that make up our bodies. Virtually every cell in our bodies must produce robust energy and have good gene repair systems to give us optimal health.

Robust cell energy insures that the cell will do all the jobs its genes design it to do—including the job of gene repair and maintenance. The cells of your body accomplish a surprisingly complex array of tasks that keep you going; keep you thinking and doing. When these cellular tasks weaken or fail, you lose energy, strength, clear thinking and eventually life itself. Cells make worker molecules called enzymes and communicating molecules called hormones; it takes a lot of biochemical energy to do what the cell must do every minute of its life. Cells rebuild tissue, contract and expand muscle, remove the waste products and toxins properly and communicate with one another remarkably. Can there be any doubt that cell energy is the foundation of life itself.

At Carotec we place our strongest emphasis on nutrients and special molecules that promote robust cell oxidation cycles, which support the various structures and functions of the body parts. If liver cells, for example, have robust energy you will have a good liver; the same for brain cells, heart cells, the cells of the circulatory system and so forth.

That's the basic philosophy at the foundation of everything we believe about good health—it serves us well and can serve you too.

To assess your personal status, as it exists at this moment, you need to think deeply about the nature of health, sickness, society and environment.

The condition of your health, your cellular systems, is directly related to your genetic makeup and your start in life. For example, how well did your parents eat? Did they smoke and drink? How were you fed as an infant? What's the nature of every meal you eat, every drink you down, every breath you take, every kind of pollution you are basking in every day.

If you truly want better health, you must think about those things. Typically, we Americans don't realize the facts of unhealthy life because we live in an age where sub-clinical deficiencies and accumulating toxins are accepted then shrugged or drugged away.

Our purpose here is to inform you about the need to look at your whole body and all its marvelous systems and to realize why you must supplement your diet with only the highest quality nutrients if you intend to make up for the many pitfalls and shortcomings of our culture, and gain optimal health—give your cells what they need to produce optimal energy.

Many things combine to tear our health down, going back to the way our parents took care of their health before we were conceived, while we were developing in the womb, and during those vital formative years.

The chronic and metabolic disease problems endemic in America can be traced directly to our food, our lifestyle and the myriad pollutants surrounding us.

Like nearly everyone, there was a time when we, too, felt indestructible and were unconcerned about health and dietary supplements. And, like nearly everyone else, we were unwitting victims of our fast-paced, abundantly rich society where an amazing array of things are simply taken for granted. We didn't perceive how deterioration constantly creeps up on everyone silently, steadily.

While a junk food diet is a big part of the chronic health problems we can see everywhere, there are other important factors to note and beware. For example, what kind of clothing do you wear?

Your skin is the largest organ of your body and you cover it day and night in various fabrics. Are those fabrics all natural cotton? Real silk?

Have you ever thought about this? Most people have not. We did, and we made the "natural fabric" decision long ago. Your body may be stressed by synthetic fabrics because they don't "breathe" like natural fibers. Your skin needs to "breathe." Synthetic fibers cover the bodies of millions of people virtually around the clock—for instance, when you sleep in nightgowns, or between sheets. Also when you work-out in those modern body suits, and possibly all day long when wearing "regular" clothes.

Some of us react uncomfortably the instant a T-shirt that is less than 100% cotton is pulled over our heads. Could our discomfort be a warning?

Nevertheless, millions of people have adjusted themselves to synthetic fabrics, but at what cost? Even though you may not feel uncomfortable in synthetic fibers, your body may be nonetheless stressed.

We moved away from synthetic fiber clothing and bedding and use only natural fibers like organic cotton and silk. If you do so, and your body readjusts to the feeling of natural fibers against your skin while wearing your clothes or between the bed sheets—you will surely notice if you put synthetic back on.

Synthetic fibers may seem insignificant so far as your health goes, but this is just one of the many "little things" that may add up to steal our health.

I call it "the last-straw syndrome." All the various "little things" that abuse a body continue adding up, chronically, steadily until one day, seemingly without warning, a person suffers symptoms and serious disease.

For example, do you have mercury fillings in your teeth? Some people think these are "silver". These metal amalgams are more than 50% mercury.

Have you heard the stories about how toxic those mercury vapors, which are constantly leaching into your bloodstream in tiny amounts, really are? How about evidence that shows the various metals in your mouth—fillings, bridgework, even gold—may be triggering unhealthy electrical responses?

There is a whole school of thought about the deleterious health aspects of this kind of cross-current pollution is in your mouth, so close to your brain and nervous center. The effects are very slow going, of course, and people don't generally feel symptoms for many years. Actually, "only a few people have reactions" the dental profession likes to say. However, you don't have to have a serious symptom for your dental work to be constantly taking a imperceptible toll on your health—day in, day out.

So, even if you think you're one of those "lucky ones" who have not become deathly ill from the fillings or from reactions to electrical cross currents, you can't be sure at this point exactly what has been going on in the complex systems of your body.

And there's much, much more going on—even as we speak.

Also, we all live in a perpetual sea of electro-magnetic fields of every imaginable kind. According to the media, low-level EMF pollution isn't really dangerous, but then much is reported that isn't necessarily true. Ongoing studies that don't get media attention indicate that even very low levels of EMF can cause biological reactions and science is a long way from proving these fields are as safe as our institutions would have us believe. Perhaps you live near some high-tension wires and transformers; or adjacent to a microwave tower, or work at a computer; or use a hair dryer and sleep under an electric blanket after you remove your polyester clothing and brush your mercury filled teeth.

Is there fluoride as well as chlorine in your tap water? Do you drink it, bathe in it and cook with it? Those are merely two more pervasive manmade toxins that may be polluting your systems.

Is your indoor air polluted by off-gassing building materials, carpets or paints? Do you use soaps, shampoos, and cleaning agents around the house that contain toxic substances? In millions of American homes the inhabitants have been assaulted with toxins daily for decades.

And then there is our food. We all have to eat, and we have been eating the basic packaged and refined foods of our society all our lives.

Do you cook balanced meals from scratch at home? Or do you eat a lot of fast foods and pre-packaged supermarket or convenience store junk? Do you make your own bread the way bread should be made? Is it fresh, stoneground flour baked into bread the same day it is ground? Is it leavened without commercial yeast, only with natural leavening? Do all your meats, eggs, cheese and vegetables come from clean, hormone-free, antibiotic-free organic sources? Do you avoid the trans fatty acids in partially hardened or hydrogenated oils? Do you avoid sugar? Do you limit your restaurant visits to one or two a month at most, because you can control the quality of the food, the cleanliness and the cooking at home?

And, every pollutant or deficiency we've mentioned so far is additive, which means the all the various toxins and shortcomings stay with your body over time—wreaking havoc on your cells.

And, this is very important—no matter what the toxins or deficiencies have done to the body during the previous decades of our lives, there is only one way to fix them—quality targeted nutrition in the form of dietary supplements. If there is any hope at all, good nutrition and supplements designed to detoxify and rebuild are the only way to restore what has been torn down. We are not trying to discourage you or disrupt your life. We are merely pointing all these things out so you become aware of them. You don't have to become a medieval monk to effect healthy changes. There are things you can do to counter pollutants and deficiencies without drastically altering your lifestyle.

Millions of people have already proved that lifestyle changes can be made. Unfortunately, the popular example of dietary changes being hyped in our society stems from a flawed vegetarian idea put forth by the medical institutions and medical doctors, even those who purport to be "alternative" and "health oriented." Nevertheless, millions have adjusted to the idea.

Many of you have already changed your diet to meet the requirements of the "anti-fat; anti-cholesterol" campaign during the past 25 years. Giving up steak and eggs, ice cream and fried chicken was not easy for people, but millions did it because they thought it would give them better health. So, at least we know changes can be made if the people grasp the need.

Scientists are now admitting that this blanket opposition to "saturated or animal fat" and "dietary cholesterol" has not been a healthy idea. This serves as a good example of the need for sensible, reliable health information of the kind we have been putting out for the past decade.

Confusion came when the "health advocates" and so-called "alternative" medical doctors bought the unscientific propaganda and helped carry the campaign against fat and cholesterol too far. Despite the fact that the original Framingham Study showed that the participants who ate meat and eggs were the healthiest group, the "anti-fat, anti-cholesterol agenda" was promoted.

The truth is: when a person eats "less" overall food it has been shown to be universally beneficial to health. However, eliminating good fat and cholesterol can be harmful to health. But millions accepted the "lite" and "lo-fat" propaganda and changed dietary habits. Obviously the "anti-fat" campaign did not improve overall health—the evidence shows Americans are more obese and chronically ill than ever.

One real irony, for example, lies in the female estrogen problems that have grown tremendously in stature in recent years. The body needs cholesterol and fat to make the steroid hormones like DHEA, progesterone, estrogen, testosterone and so forth. By eliminating good, clean saturated fats and good cholesterol foods like eggs, the anti-fat campaign has contributed to the hormone health dilemma.

The publicity surrounding Dr. Kilmer McCully's 1997 book, "The Homocysteine Revolution," has helped people see how our institutions have over-emphasized the anti-cholesterol agenda.

Many people are now coming back in a modest way to "clean" organically produced meat and fat, and organically produced fertile eggs for instance, and discovering that it makes a pleasant difference in their health and attitude.

So, you see that reliable information is very important. So are high quality dietary supplements.

At Carotec, we don't face many pollutants in our daily life because we take great efforts to avoid them. We use only natural fibers. We no longer have mercury fillings or metalwork in our mouths. We avoid EMF pollution as much as possible. We also avoid toxic household chemicals as much as possible. As for food, we eat well-balanced, organic, nutritious meals at home virtually every day of the year—and, you know what?

We still supplement our diet with our own products in order to give our bodies optimal nutrition to cope with today's toxic world and our past junk-food lifestyles.

And this is why we worked so hard to get only high quality supplements with as little filler material as possible. Our bodies, and yours, need help, not more abuse. They need as clean and pure and potent a supplement as possible. On top of that, we all need as much reliable health information as we can get. At Carotec we know from experience what is needed in both products and information.

Our supplements come in well-designed categories that support particular body functions or structure. We realize you can't solve the toxic problems or insidious deficiencies overnight. The pollutants built up in you slowly, and the deficiencies occur over time—deterioration doesn't happen quickly, and quick fixes don't work. You need to make steady dietary improvements to rebuild your health.

At Carotec, we also work to purge toxins from our bodies. For some reason the medical institutions downplay or downright ignore detoxification, but you ignore this aspect of getting back to good health at your own peril. All the pollutants mentioned above must be eliminated from your body. And all the toxins that are produced in your body must be removed from your cells, especially fat cells, and from your bloodstream. Your liver and kidneys are working overtime in these modern times. They need your help, not more abuse.

People who become members of the Carotec Health Club often ask us about detoxification. Getting the benefit of our experience is one of the benefits of membership. For example, we know there is one thing any of you can do to help your body remove toxins. You can remove your contacts or take off your glasses, then go outside in the sunshine for one hour during the important morning light hours between 9 and 11 to let natural sunlight get into your eyes. Don't look into the sun, just let the light come in as often as you can.

Now that you are ready to take health and dietary supplements seriously, we welcome you. Good information and good products await you here at Carotec.