It's all about nutrients! Optimal health and vitality demands daily intake of the natural nutrients that only real food provides. Each meal provides the opportunity to take in the nutrients the body needs for a healthy life and to feel great. But that is not as easy as it sounds. Data compiled by our government during the past decades show that today's farm grown foods are seriously depleted. This includes vegetables, fruits, and grains grown in our farm land soils. They are lacking the natural occurring nutrients including vitamins, minerals, and trace minerals as compared to those grown only a few decades ago.
Nutrient Stats: UK and US government statistics indicate that levels of trace minerals in fruit and vegetables fell by up to 76% between 1940 and 1991. (This means 4 times as many vegetables need to be eaten each today in order to have as the same amount of vital dietary trace minerals that people had for to support good health 60 years ago.)
Plants do not make minerals; they draw them up out of the soil. Less minerals in the soils means less minerals in the plants which results in less minerals, etc. in the daily diet. Can you see why daily nutrient supplementation is recommended by natural health doctors? But there is another problem...
Synthetic vitamins: Unfortunately most vitamins sold in stores are made synthetically. This means they do not come from actual food, but are made from chemicals and petroleum products. In nature, vitamins are in chemical complexes composed of many parts, never as isolated high potency parts of vitamins (eg. 1,000 mg Vit. C., 400 IU of vitamin E).
The above picture shows an actual photograph of the difference between complete and natural vitamin C vs. an isolated Ascorbic Acid typically referred to vitamin C. Which one looks more life giving to you? If you choose the Natural Vitamin C you are correct. It contains the natural life giving co-factors in proper proportions to safely nourish your body. The isolated ascorbic acid (made in a lab from a chemical that isn't vitamin C to begin with) does not. The body is designed to recognize and utilize nutrients in their whole form. If you eat incomplete foods (or high potency vitamin fractions) all the factors that are missing have to be scavenged from body tissue reserves in order to make the partial food usable. Sooner or later, depending on your health and past eating habits, there will be a deficiency of those nutrients, causing what's referred to as a "reversal of symptoms." This means there is a recurrence of the same symptoms, which were causing the problem in the first place, often to a more serious degree. So high potency vitamins can cause the masking of deficiency symptoms, which will eventually create worse future problems. Dr. Lee used to say that using high potency vitamins was like whipping a tired horse; he would be stimulated to run faster but sooner or later he collapses because you never fed him.
In our office, for our family and ourselves we utilize Standard Process whole food nutritional supplements. Established by Dr. Royal Lee in 1929, it has formulated nutritional supplements from plants grown on their organic Wisconsin farm.
Contact our office today for your nutrient review –
We want you feeling your best!
Dr. Glenn Nicholas ~ www.WholeBasics.com ~ (208)743-4567
Information Tidbit:
The Standard Process Heritage
The history of Standard Process is not as simple as you may expect the history of a supplement manufacturer to be. The company was started during the Great Depression, the "worst" economic downfall in the history of the United States, and endured seven decades of hardship, tribulation, and growth. No matter what has happened since 1929, producing high-quality products has always remained top priority.
Dr. Royal Lee dedicated his life to finding solutions for all sorts of challenges, but his greatest passion was improving the nation's health by providing high-quality, whole food supplements and educating others about them. He devoted the majority of his life to spreading the truth about nutrition.
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