Awareness

I work in the natural health industry. I choose to work for a company that rightfully boasts incredibly high levels of integrity in areas of sustainability, purity and quality. The people that I work along side of make the product a reflection of their own beliefs and commitment to holistic health and wellness.

My Dad calls me the "snake oil woman", and I am ok with that. I like snakes, and they can even be beneficial to "health" - Wikipedia posts:

Snake wine (蛇酒, pinyin: shéjǐu; rượu rắn in Vietnamese) is an alcoholic beverage produced by infusing whole snakes in rice wine or grain alcohol. The drink used in China during the Western Zhou dynasty and considered an important curative and believed to reinvigorate a person according to Traditional Chinese medicine[1]. It can be found in China, Vietnam and throughout Southeast Asia.

I also like wine :)

Truthfully, I sell to stores, practitioners, doctors and everyday people like you and I. I educate these same individuals on the benefits of Fish oil and it's incredible Omega 3 properties. (I won't go into all of the benefits of Omega 3 because in being truthful with my intentions of the blog - I am writing to write, and if someone is interested you know where to find me.) I am proud of what I do, because I feel that I help people. I educate them on a product that is from the earth (the ocean to be specific), is so incredibly wonderful for our minds and bodies, and other than reacting with allergies has no negative affects on people who choose to supplement with it. In addition, I am fortunate to work for a company that chooses the most sustainable source of fish on the planet, is "green" through and through, follows Health Canada's and the FDA's guidelines to a "T", is not too proud to take a knock on the chin when something can be improved upon and purchases the rights to 3rd party testing to make sure that the consumer knows that what they are ingesting is safe and pure.

Safety and purity... that is a concern with fish oils. Fish comes from the sea, and sadly enough although the sea is breathtaking... the sea is dirty, the sea is contaminated and the sea is full of species that are quickly facing the end of their lives due to over farming and toxins. Ascenta does it right. Ascenta uses the most sustainable species of fish, Ascenta molecularly distils the oils, uses a natural clay cleaning process and introduces enzymes to bring it back to it's natural triglyceride state. On top of all this, as I said, Ascenta gives the consumer a Pure Check report showing exactly what is in their single bottle of fish oil. Therefore, the customer can consume the oil and not be at risk of being bombarded with toxins, and they can feel happy that they have invested in a company that gives 1% of their yearly sales back to the planet in which they have borrowed from.

So.. why I am writing about this when I clearly work with this in my mind everyday?

There was a press release put out a couple of days ago exposing companies in the U.S. that are guilty of having high levels of PCBs in their oils. Sure I may be rightfully biased, but I have just spent paragraphs telling you about a company that takes pains to do things correctly. A company that puts their own money out there to make sure that our footprint is not any larger than it has to be, and it's consumers are adding to their health - not taking aways from it. So let me ask you this - Knowing that a small Canadian company out of Nova Scotia can do this, why can't a large American company do this? When does the point come where saving money became more important to some people / companies than the health of the humans and animals that we coexist with? Doesn't the mere awareness of the health of the earth, including it's inhabitants, provide us with the means to merely exist?

This is a small example to a larger question in my mind... when did some humans stop recognizing the tender balance that must be present for living beings to exist in a symbiotic relationship with the earth? To be more specific to my rantings, when did the bottom dollar start to be more important than the cause that these companies have clearly dedicated themselves to? They work in the Natural Health industry! When did PCBs start to be a part of Natural Health?

In the end... let's just be more aware of what we are putting in our bodies. Let's use the gifts of the earth to nourish us, but let's ask the questions... let's be aware.