Contrary to mainstream medical belief which is that important nutrients are readily available from a normal, balanced diet and that supplementing the diet with vitamins and minerals is a waste of money; we believe that the modern diet is inadequate to supply vital biologically active nutrients. That mainstream belief system doesn’t take into account the quality of the food sources that are mostly available today and how heavily those foods are processed prior to consumption. Perhaps, in an earlier time, when our population was less urbanized and closer to locally grown food sources that may have been more true than today when soils are depleted and heavily laced with all manner of chemicals, foods are highly processed, frozen, canned and often sit in warehouses and shelves for who knows how long and then steamed, heated and microwaved before consumption. Without going on a screed, it must also be considered that our foods are becoming more and more genetically modified for purposes other than their nutritional value. A recent study of TMJ patients being worked up as surgical candidates for their conditions showed that the greatest majority were deficient in a number of important and vital vitamins and minerals which made them poor candidates for post-surgical recovery. This finding likely extrapolates into the general TMJ/TMD population with important implications for their acute and chronic conditions. Therefore, we think it highly important for our patients to consider condition specific supplementation to ensure a rapid and predictable response to our individualized treatment plans. We have recommended four important formulas that are designed to be specific for their intended usage and have the ingredients combined in the correct manner to remove any guesswork as to amounts, ratios and synergism for optimum response.
We have selected Mountain Peak Nutritional as our suppliers for several important reasons: one is that our experience in working with Dr. Jim Massey the founder and his condition specific formulas have proven to be successful in helping our patients recover from their TMJ/TMD conditions. They are a local company with locally sourced, pharmaceutical grade high quality ingredients. Those ingredients are carefully combined into the correct amounts, ratios and combined with synergism herbs for their intended purposes: hence “condition specific”. Because these formulas are condition specific and the ingredients are of a high quality pharmaceutical grade, they are only available through a doctor.
