Have you ever wondered if your supplements are really making you healthier?
Posted by admin in supplements, Standard ProcessWould you like a simple way to find out?
You could save a bunch of money every month and get even healthier to boot, all in about 15 minutes. Easy.
Odds are, that you aren’t using muscle building supplements or Hcg supplements or any other highly specialized product. But, you are likely taking a multiple vitamin, maybe some B’s, E’s, C’s, calcium, or vitamin D.
So are you better off taking them? Depends.
Here’s my spin on this topic. If I could no longer get whole food supplements I wouldn’t take anything. That’s right, vitamin supplements can be bad for you. They can also save your life. It just depends on what you take.
Would you like to eat the orange peel and not the inside? or maybe the banana peel instead of the nice sweet inside. That’s exactly what happens when you take an antioxidant. OK, don’t quit reading just yet.
Antioxidants are important for protecting the precious vitamins inside the fruit not for protecting your body. Much like the way a peel protects the whole fruit.
I’m slightly off topic but I’m going to attempt to reel it back in. Vitamin E attracts a lot of attention as being good for the heart and other muscles. Now if you go look at a bottle of vitamins you’ll likely see…
- d-alpha tocopherol or
- dl-alpha tocopherol
These are regarded as vitamin E by most people. In reality, they are just antioxidant rings and really only one of many that normally exist in nature.
If you go whack open a wheat berry in your grain grinder you’ll be eating natural vitamin E as it was intended to exist and buried down deep inside the vitamin matrix is the mineral selenium.
This is why the average vitamin bottle on the shelf really stinks for making you healthier and wastes a ton of your money. A really cheap vitamin E supplement will only have alpha-tocopherol and no selenium so you body now becomes the doner.
You will now slowly become selenium deficient the longer you take the artificial stuff. Just for fun, look up “Selenium Deficiency” in Google.
This concept is pretty important along with many other little things that make supplement buying a little tricky. It all boils down to getting a whole, natural, unadulterated product.
If you want to know the good, the bad, and the ugly, I’ll answer any questions you have about supplements for free through out the month of February.
When an average patient brings in 10 bottles of supplements 2-3 are good, 1-2 are acceptable, and the rest fall into the ugly and dangerous category.
I’m in the office Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday (mornings). Just bring in your bottles, even if you aren’t a patient of mine, I’ll give you the straight scoop and potentially save you a bunch of money every month and make you healthier.
I know what your thinking. “Fine, I’ll just take nothing, right.” Wrong, one of the most improtant things I do every day is take whole food supplements and herbs. They are tremendously helpful and neccessary by almost every one. I have yet to meet someone who doen’t need some kind of supplementation.




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