Posted by Larry Hoover on June 3, 2006, at 8:58:45
In reply to What on earth is a 'glandular'?, posted by Meri-Tuuli on June 3, 2006, at 7:05:04
> I went to see a nutritionist yeaterday, and she mentioned 'glandulars' as a support for my (underactive and stressed) adrenals. What on earth are they???
Yes, animal tissue.
Dessicated glands taken from healthy but dead animals. E.g. at a slaughterhouse, they'll collect thyroid tissue. They dry the tissue to a powdery dryness, grind it, and sift out anything that didn't grind up. What's left, the powder, is called a glandular. That's what Armour thyroid supplement is, a prescription *standardized* glandular, from pig thyroid. There are standardized, and un-standardized glandulars. Adrenal glandulars used to be very popular.
The idea is "if it kept a pig healthy....".
Lar
P.S. I'm still resting.
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