Cellulose Capsules vs. MSG laden Gelcaps

It is official gelatin capsules are inferior and unacceptable in my book. I knew they always have MSG due to the hydrolization that is necessary to produce the gelatin from God knows what but it involves animal parts. I am not a vegetarian but just the fact that gelatin comes from animal parts is distasteful to me even if MSG wasn’t a problem. That all aside I have just performed a very unofficial but convincing experiment in a glass in my kitchen.

I took one capsule from Ron Schmid’s multi-vitamin formula, one capsule from T-Tapp alfalfa supplement and one capsule from Mercola’s Turmeric/Ginger supplement, emptied them in to my morning smoothie and dumped the now empty capsules in a glass of water. I know Schmid’s capsule is gelatin and Mercola’s capsule is vegetable cellulose I was unsure of the composition of the T-Tapp capsule but I know now it is gelatin.

The Mercola capsule disintegrated in less than 5 minutes. It dissolved and blended with the water with no residue other than the turmeric color which is pervasive. Dr. Ron’s capsule  is still present in the glass after 30 minutes and it shows no sign of actually disintegrating. The T-Tapp capsule is following closely behind Dr. Ron’s, so it is gelatin as well.

I am guessing the gelatin capsules would  disappear in the acidic environment of your gut (unless you have low stomach acid which is often the case with GERD or Acid Reflux) but I think for my purposes a capsule that melts and disappears in less than 5 minutes and has no excitotoxic properties is the clear winner and has no chance of passing undissolved and intact in to the septic tank.

PACE with Kathy Smith

I have had Kathy Smith’s DVD called Functionally Fit Peak Fat Burning (FFPFB) for sometime and enjoy working out to it immensely. It had occurred to me sometime ago that it fit very nicely in to the Progressively Accelerated exercise program that Al Sears devised and I thought it was worth a mention to those who like PACE.

Kathy Smith does it with a bit of humor as she does occasionally make mistakes that are not edited out but I enjoy a smile when I am exercising, so that is alright with me. She takes you through a stretch and warm up and then in to the exercise itself quite effortlessly. The exercises are accelerated for 2 minutes at a time for 6 different segments and following each accelleration there is a cool down that she uses to work your lower body. The total workout is 45 minutes ( longer than Al Sears suggests you need) but it flies by and you feel energized when you are done.  At the very end you can do her stretch or your own stretch. I happen to like the stretch she does on her DVD titled Power Walk for Weight Loss, so I choose to do that when I am done.

I do FFPFB every other day and mix it up with the Power Walk because she works your upper body in that program and it is shorter for those days when you don’t want to spend lots of time getting fit. It also does have you work out at different levels but it is not a PACE type of exercise.

If you  mix this exercise with 5 minutes in front of your Vitamin D sunlamp three times a week and 20 minutes in your Sunlight FIR sauna almost every day you have done everything a body needs to be healthy and you will feel fighting fit.