Pyramid Systems

At Middlebury Chiropractic Clinic we have made it a practice not to get involved in any Pyramid Vitamin Systems in the office.
We have lots of opportunities. In fact, even at the last Time Share Condo we vacationed at, the salespersons tried to get us started with Veema. Granted, we believe that there are many good products under a Pyramid System, but generally people are in those systems, not so much to help other people, but primarily to "enrich their own pockets."

Here are the questions I usually ask the salesperson? How has this product impacted your life? Do you have blood tests, (before the product and after taking it) from at least ten people you personally know, to prove their efficacy? What do you get out of it when we get involved? This is usually what I am suspicious of when a patient trys to get a Doctor to sell a product?

If a patient can get a product from a lay person, we usually don't get involved, because our products are for very specific diseases. If the patients are self diagnosing we usually do not get involved, because they usually don't follow our recommendations anyway.

A lot of patients go to doctors and then ignore their advice and do their own research, and very soon they are on so many products that it becomes problematic for the body to balance itself. It is usually better to find the primary cause of the problem and work on that primary problem and then work on the next layer that shows up when that problem is taken care of. That is why we recommend the Biomeridian Computeized Stress test or a Blood test that includes: General health panel, Lipid profile, Thyroid profile, CBC and Chem and Urinalysis. These tests allow us to define the four primary problems the patient is currently having. We recommend a patient take only about 3-5 products at a time. We work on the primary layers and after those are resolved, we look at the next layers.

We often find that even when we just recommend a few products, patients will hear another product is also good and they will add about four more unnecessary products to their regimen, rather than learning to eat healthy. We believe that our Mennonite cooking (too many grains and not enough greens) or McDonald's type of eating contributes to our unhealthy bodies.

If your diet is primarily grains, you need to learn how different grains complement each other to make a complete protein. For example, rice is a carb but combined with a legume (bean) it becomes a protein. Peanut butter on whole wheat toast becomes a protein. By itself, peanuts are an incomplete protein.