Now that we live in an age where we can't even trust our doctors, I'm going to give you some advice just like my mom gave me (she was all into herbs and food as medicine.)
The #1 guiding force in your decisions of what to put in your body (or keep out) should be your inner voice. Some call it the Holy Ghost. When you spend time in your daily prayers, ask God whether you should take supplements, herbs, food, medicine, whatever, and he'll tell you, you just have to listen for those feelings of peace and love that can only come from God.
However, given #1, you cannot excuse ignorance! You must read everything you can on these topics and think about them deeply. Reading isn't hard -- after you've read 20 or so scientific papers you will know the drill and know what to look for. Wikipedia is a FANTASTIC resource on the various drugs out there, particularly the lesser-known ones that are used extensively for mammals. You must seek out ideas and advice and try them out, experiment with them, and then take responsibility for your own decisions.
AVOID EXTREMES! Extremes are never the answer. I take that back: Extremes are only useful in extreme situations. IE, you broke your arm, now we are going to have you put your arm in a splint and maybe set your arm and guess what limb you are not using for the next month! The goal is to live a plain, normal life, not jump from one extreme to another. So try to stay balanced and don't veer off the road. Some people just bounce back and forth between extremes and never find the happy middle.
When changing your diet, EXPECT that your body will react in mysterious ways. IE, if you decide to start grinding your own wheat and make your own bread from natural ingredients, you WILL experience changes to your digestive system. Give things time to work, sometimes your body can adjust on its own, sometimes it needs a little help. TIME cures a lot of problems, so sometimes you just need time to cure your diseases.
God put the answers you need in front of your face. Just like a good dad, if we need bread and ask for it, he isn't going to give you a stone or a serpent. Look around at what you already have. The answer is often staring right at you.
There's something they are putting in our flour and bread. I don't remember people reacting so negatively and I don't remember it tasting as weird as it does. One of my friends said they switched to using bromine or something to preserve the wheat, when we used to use something else. Bromine is practically poison.
I'm looking forward to growing my own wheat, drying and grinding it myself to see if it tastes like the bread I remember eating as a kid or if it's no different from the wheat and flour you buy in the store. I'll let you guys know when I get a crop. I do remember we grew some wheat as a kid but we ended up eating the berries when they were sweet and delicious and we never let it go dry like you're supposed to so you can grind it into flour.
Your mom is a wise lady
Very good, sound advice!
Doctors are good for one thing; trauma (damage from violence).
For everything else I have never trusted doctors, even before I became a biologist.
Pre-med students on the other hand are great. They make it easy to get an A for the people who are there to learn biology.
That's the best use for a doctor as it relates to biology.