Dr. Mercola, my husband and I have taken organic supplements for years as we know the importance of assuring that your body is getting all that its needs for optimal health. Near the end of March of this year after reading your article on your Whole Food Vitamin + Vital Mineral Supplements we decided to switch from what we were using and purchased your product as it had everything we needed in one product except for the essential fatty acids.
Concern: My husband has had no problems, but I noticed a change in my bowels and gas problems. Prior to beginning use I would most days have one to three movements a day. One upon arising around 6:30 am in the morning, a small one a few hours later and most of the time a small one before retiring for the night around 11pm. I have been this regular for years and stools have always been soft but firm. After begining the use of the Whole Food Vitamin + Vital Mineral Supplements this changed.
I've been experiencing gas and alot of burping; stools very soft, small and stringy and even diahea at times (mostly in the morning). My diet has not changed so thought I'd stop taking the supplements for a few days. My bowels firmed up and started returning to what I have known as normal. Then I decided to start taking them again, but I reduced my dosage to two a day. I'm still having some gas and durping problems, but stool are a bit better, yet not like they once were. Since the daily dosage is 8/days I was thinking that I should go back to that dosage and see what happens once again, but before doing so I though you could shed some light on this subject.
Questions: Do you think this change is due to the supplement cleaning out my system of unhealthy toxins so all systems can function at optimal health levels or could this just be a supplement that doesn't agree with my body for some reason? Or could there be something else that may be going on in the body? Has anyone else had this happen to them? I really want to use this type of a supplement as whole food supplementation is best and I really feel that you have formulated a product that covers all basis of nutrition, so please let me know what you think.
Thanks a bunch!