Supplements for Crohn's/Colitis/IBS - The Brand I Swear By - Garden of Life

If you have Crohn's UC IBS or any digestive issues, you probably don't absorb all the nutrients from the food you eat.  You have to supplement with a good product that will make up for what you lose in your food.  Also, if you have to adhere to a strict diet, limited diet, you may not even consume some of the foods that nourish and provide you with the needed vitamins and minerals that you need to keep your body functioning to the best of it's ability.    

Garden of Life is by far, one of the best supplement/vitamin/herb companies out there.  They are one of the few brands that provide ORGANIC supplements.  Have you noticed that it's very rare to find good vitamins that are organic?  I never used to look for organic until I refuse to put anything that isn't organic into my body.   I'm posting what I take from them that works great and am able to tolerate.  My body is sensitive to supplements, so finding a brand that my body can handle is a process of trial and error. Hope you find this helpful :)

( Everything I have posted here can be found at www.gardenoflife.com ) 

The Vitamin Code - Healthy Blood: I need iron, but have never been able to tolerate oral iron at all.  This doesn't irritate my digestive system or give me any problems. Works great.  

Probiotics Made w/ Genetically Modified Fillers... Are they organic??

This article was on www.naturalnews.com and to tell you the truth, I don't know what to believe.  Almost sounds like the writer is pushing the Sun Biotics brand.. I however, don't put much past the companies that manufacturer & produce the stuff we put in our body.  I try to have good faith in whatever it is I buy that the company is not corrupt.  Hard to tell though.  I guess it's a good idea to find a certified organic probiotic from now on. I 

Shock finding: Most probiotic supplements made with genetically modified flow agents, fillers:

(NaturalNews) A Natural News investigation into the probiotics industry has turned up alarming information about how probiotics are formulated and labeled. We've found that nearly all probiotics available in the U.S. market today are secretly formulated with genetically modified ingredients that are intentionally not listed on the label. The most common such ingredient is maltodextrin, a corn-derived flow agent.

Look for yourself at the probiotics available today, and you'll find something curious: Virtually none of them are certified USDA organic. Why is that? If you read the ingredients on the label, you might scratch your head and wonder why they can't make those ingredients organic. But the real story is found in the "dirty little secret" that probiotics supplement manufacturers are not listing on the labels: Maltodextrin and other fillers and flow agents that are derived from GM corn.

You are being lied to about probiotics ingredients

Here's the rock-bottom truth about probiotics: You are being LIED to about what they're made from because the FDA does not require manufacturers to list fillers and flow agents as ingredients.

Yep, you read that right: A probiotics manufacturer can add genetically modified corn maltodextrin to their formula and they are not required to disclose this on the label. While the maltodextrin will disqualify them from receiving organic certification, it doesn't stop them from using the word "natural" on their bottles.

Our Natural News investigation found that some probiotics contain as much as 30% maltodextrin in their formulas. Virtually all maltodextrin available today comes from genetically modified corn.

This means that consumers who think they're buying a healthy product to support digestion are actually buying products made from corn plants that are engineered to grow insecticide toxins right inside each and every kernel. Processing this into refined maltodextrin does not necessarily remove this toxin, meaning maltodextrin itself may be contaminated with the bt toxin that functions as an insecticide.