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“Let food be thy medicine, and medicine be thy food.”— Attributed to Hippocrates🌿“Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food.”— Attributed to Hippocrates🌿“The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.”— Thomas A. Edison🌿“No illness which can be treated by diet should be treated by any other means.”— Maimonides (commonly attributed)🌿“When diet is wrong, medicine is of no use; when diet is correct, medicine is of no need.”— Ayurvedic proverb🌿“Medicine and food share a common origin.”— Traditional Chinese medicine saying🌿“Food is medicine is not only an idea whose time has come; it is absolutely essential.”— Dr Dariush Mozaffarian🌿“Nature is the true healer. The physician is only nature's assistant.”— Attributed to Hippocrates🌿“All that man needs for health and healing has been provided in nature; the challenge of science is to find it.”— Attributed to Paracelsus🌿“Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.”— Leonardo da Vinci🌿“The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”— Attributed to Voltaire🌿“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”— Benjamin Franklin🌿“If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise — not too little and not too much — we would have found the safest way to health.”— Attributed to Hippocrates🌿“Eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise.”— Hippocrates, On Regimen🌿“Health is created and lived by people within the settings of their everyday life.”— WHO Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion🌿“The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.”— Sir William Osler🌿“Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being — not merely the absence of disease.”— WHO Constitution🌿“Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.”— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin🌿“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”— Michael Pollan🌿“Do not eat anything your great-grandmother would not recognise as food.”— Michael Pollan🌿“Diet-related diseases produce crushing health and economic burdens.”— Dr Dariush Mozaffarian🌿“One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.”— Sir William Osler🌿“Good food is a right, not a privilege.”— Alice Waters🌿“Let food be thy medicine, and medicine be thy food.”— Attributed to Hippocrates🌿“Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food.”— Attributed to Hippocrates🌿“The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.”— Thomas A. Edison🌿“No illness which can be treated by diet should be treated by any other means.”— Maimonides (commonly attributed)🌿“When diet is wrong, medicine is of no use; when diet is correct, medicine is of no need.”— Ayurvedic proverb🌿“Medicine and food share a common origin.”— Traditional Chinese medicine saying🌿“Food is medicine is not only an idea whose time has come; it is absolutely essential.”— Dr Dariush Mozaffarian🌿“Nature is the true healer. The physician is only nature's assistant.”— Attributed to Hippocrates🌿“All that man needs for health and healing has been provided in nature; the challenge of science is to find it.”— Attributed to Paracelsus🌿“Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.”— Leonardo da Vinci🌿“The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”— Attributed to Voltaire🌿“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”— Benjamin Franklin🌿“If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise — not too little and not too much — we would have found the safest way to health.”— Attributed to Hippocrates🌿“Eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise.”— Hippocrates, On Regimen🌿“Health is created and lived by people within the settings of their everyday life.”— WHO Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion🌿“The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.”— Sir William Osler🌿“Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being — not merely the absence of disease.”— WHO Constitution🌿“Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.”— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin🌿“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”— Michael Pollan🌿“Do not eat anything your great-grandmother would not recognise as food.”— Michael Pollan🌿“Diet-related diseases produce crushing health and economic burdens.”— Dr Dariush Mozaffarian🌿“One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.”— Sir William Osler🌿“Good food is a right, not a privilege.”— Alice Waters🌿
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Ingredient library

422 nutraceuticals, graded honestly

Every vitamin, mineral, amino acid, herb, polyphenol, probiotic and specialty ingredient Farmicine considers — with its roles, research maturity, forms and cautions. The library is the reference the assistant and the products are built from.

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Vitamins 24

Minerals & Elements 33

  • Calcium Bone/teeth mineralization, muscle contraction, nerve…
  • Magnesium >300 enzyme cofactor, ATP, muscle relaxation, sleep, BP…
  • Phosphorus Bone, ATP, DNA, pH buffer
  • Potassium BP, fluid balance, cardiac rhythm, stroke prevention
  • Sodium Fluid balance, nerve, muscle
  • Chloride Stomach acid, pH balance, fluid balance
  • Iron Hemoglobin/myoglobin, oxygen transport, energy, cognition
  • Zinc Immunity, wound healing, taste/smell, testosterone…
  • Copper Iron metabolism, connective tissue (lysyl oxidase)…
  • Selenium Thyroid (deiodinase), glutathione peroxidase antioxidant…
  • Iodine Thyroid hormone synthesis, brain development, fibrocystic…
  • Chromium Insulin sensitization, glucose metabolism, cravings
  • Manganese SOD-2 antioxidant, bone, glucose, connective tissue
  • Molybdenum Sulfite oxidase, xanthine oxidase, aldehyde detox
  • Boron Bone, joint, hormone (testosterone, estrogen, D)…
  • Silicon Bone density, collagen synthesis, hair/nail/skin, arterial…
  • Vanadium Insulin-mimetic
  • Nickel Possibly involved in urease/hydrogenase
  • Cobalt Only as B12
  • Lithium Mood stabilization, neuroprotection (BDNF), longevity…
  • Strontium Bone density
  • Germanium Immune (historical claims)
  • Fluoride Dental enamel
  • Silver Topical antimicrobial
  • Gold Anti-inflammatory
  • Platinum Chemotherapy
  • Sulfur Connective tissue, methylation, glutathione, joint health
  • MSM Joint health, allergy, skin, hair, anti-inflammatory
  • Hydrogen Selective ROS scavenger, anti-inflammatory
  • Bismuth GI protection, H. pylori
  • Aluminum No nutritional role
  • Rubidium Investigational antidepressant
  • Cesium Alkaline cancer therapy (debunked, dangerous)

Amino Acids & Peptides 47

Fatty Acids & Lipids 22

Herbal - Ayurvedic 46

Herbal - TCM & East Asian 29

Herbal - Western & Global 36

Polyphenols & Carotenoids 36

Probiotics & Mushrooms 35

Enzymes, Nootropics & Specialty 51

Joint, Marine, Hormone & Other 63