You hear about the body needing nutrients and that our food choices are fast-aced and more geared to taste and convenience rather than nutrients. Since we generally don't eat all the nutrients the body needs, a supplement is needed for optimal body function. Today, there are so many choices when it comes to vitamins.

Do you take a multi-vitamin, whole food supplement, an antioxidant formula or individual

vitamins, such as vitamin B or C?   One finds so many options when it comes to supplements, most people go with the simplest choice a multi-vitamin.

You get a couple of dozen nutrients in a multivitamin and single nutrients in each individual supplement out there. Most people begin taking supplements because they want to balance their nutrient intake or to fix some kind of problem. But many find little relief of the ailments that drove them to begin taking supplements.

Most synthetic vitamins and nutritional supplements are manufactured in a lab. These vitamins and mineral supplements are made of chemicals rather than derived from the plants that the nutrients come from. Laboratory made vitamins are far cheaper than whole food supplements. These vitamins can be molecularly identical. Because they are chemicals and not identical to nutrients found in food; the body does not recognize them and we find minimal absorption of these nutrients by the body. 

Vitamins have been shown to:

•             Not perform the same functions in the body as whole food supplements

•             Sometimes deplete the body of other nutrients in their breakdown

•             May tax the kidneys before being excreted in the urine

 

 

 Whole food nutrition is the most natural way for your body to absorb nutrients.  Whole food supplements work like you are eating the fruits and vegetables the body needs. When the body receives the nutrients and antioxidants from fruits and vegetables, it continues to produce more antioxidants to kill off the free radicals that destroy body cells. What an easy way to fill the gaps in the body’s dietary needs.

Eat healthy colorful fruits and vegetables and you’re eating thousands of health-promoting substances that work together in ways that we're just discovering. When your day does not allow eating a balance of these good-for-you colorful fruits and vegetables, or if you just want to give your body the benefits of eating these healthy foods, take a whole food supplement.  Imagine one whole food supplement improving the way the body functions.