National Deficiencies and Vitamins

Due to the population's ever-growing demand for food, many of the natural vitamins, minerals and other beneficial nutrients have been compromised by varying degrees to produce faster-growing crops and bigger crop yields. That often means that even the fresh fruits, vegetables, meats and fish we buy at the supermarket don't provide us with necessary nutrients to stay healthy and fit. As serious is today's "rush-around" world where lunch is often a fast-food product, candy bar or anything we can get our hands on.

It's not surprising that the supplement shelves are taking up more and more room in supermarkets and drugs stores. We really need the extra nutrition they offer us to maintain good health. At The Heritage Center for Functional Medicine, not only can we compound formulas that mitigate nutritional deficiencies, but we offer five lines of exceptional supplements and antioxidents from Multigenics, RX Vitamins and Thorne to address a wide range of nutritional and other deficiencies.

Compounding enables a pharmacist to formulate a blend of the ingredients necessary to vitamin and nutritional deficiencies with his or her input and that of his or her physician. Because a compounded formula can be adjusted, changes can be made until relief is achieved unlike standard medications which come in fixed doses. That just one of the many advantages to using compounding for pain treatment.

Compounding is also used to provide alternative methods of vitamin and supplement ingestion.

Compounding pharmacists, of which there are approximately 3,000 in the United States, acquire special skills and equipment that enable them to work with patients and their patients' healthcare providers to develop unique solutions.

Compounding can be as simple as having pills crushed for you, having your child's favorite flavor added to a medication or as complex as having a customized formulation of ingredients made especially for you from scratch. Click here to learn more.

To find out if compounding can work for you, call Howard Alter, owner of Heritage Pharmacy, at:
1-802-253-2544 or 1-800-901-2544