Why Take Supplements?

Good Reasons to take Supplements...

Twenty five years ago, virtually all of the M.D.’s hired by network news programs as resident health experts pooh-poohed the notion of taking nutritional supplements as unnecessary, possibly unhealthy and a waste of money.  Since then, many of these doctors went on to promote their own lines of vitamin and mineral supplements!

Enough peer-reviewed studies finally convinced even the former skeptics of the benefits of the already popular practice of using “health supplements”. The widespread use of vitamin, mineral and herbal formulas has spawned a multitude of studies and a multi-billion dollar nutritional supplement industry. Can’t blame the doc’s for hopping board!        

Q. Why don’t we get all of the more than 40 nutrients we need on a daily basis from even a “good” diet?

A. Because today, even the most wholesome and ‘fresh’ food (days/weeks from field or farm), prepared with minimal nutrient loss does not come close to meeting today’s heightened nutritional needs.

Q. Why are today’s nutritional needs higher than say…50years ago?

A.  It’s due to a combination of the depleted soils in which most all food/feed is grown and an ever escalating amount of toxic and carcinogenic (cancer causing) substances in our stressful environment. Numerous chemical, environmental and psychological stressors increase the toxic load on our tissues, organs and immune systems as well a accelerate aging. It’s a double jeopardy situation where we need higher amounts (much higher in some cases) than the RDA (Recommended Daily Allowance) of most all nutrients to counteract the damage done by this toxic soup of chemicals, radiation, fumes and mutated viruses and bacteria that we ingest, inhale, absorb or are somehow exposed to every day. And let’s not forget the deleterious effect stress has on us and how that depletes our nutritional reserves even further.

According to some sources, in order to get the same nutritional value found in a cup of spinach 50 years ago, today you’d have to eat 47 cups to get the same nutritional value.

Since the vast majority of us can’t change the soil our food comes from or escape from the global spread of pollution, nutritional supplements are clearly needed to make up the deficits in even “good” diets.