We have all heard the saying that you are what you eat. Before the advent of modern medicine doctors of old treated their patients with herbs and food to try and heal them. They could tell many times just by their symptoms or how they looked that they needed certain things to make them better. Take scurvy for example. For sailors it used to kill and sicken tons of them on long voyages. It turns out that some vitamin C, found in citrus for example, could keep this illness away almost altogether. But before they knew this people used to suffer and die from it on a regular basis.

Have you also ever been given a cream or a rub from your doctor and told to apply it ever so often in small amounts to help an internal problem. The skin obviously absorbs what comes in contact with it very easily. The things that we eat, breathe or put on us can certainly have quite a bit to do with our overall health whether we know it or not. So the next time you are wanting to put something down your mouth or on your skin even, you may want to consider what it really is that you are using.