Who are the players that make your favorite Super Bowl quarterback great?
Does it matter? History remembers football’s big name quarterbacks- like Joe Montana and Tom Brady- but the rest of the players on the team get little press or remembrance. But where would the big name players be without the blockers to protect them and someone to catch their passes or run with the ball they hand to them to score touch downs. Or, what about the defense that keeps the other team from scoring more points than the QB’s team? Obviously, if it weren’t for the rest of the team skillfully executing their duties the QB would be a loser. Did you know the same is true in the nutrition world? It is! You have heard of the big name highly paid popular vitamins- A, B, C, D, E, and K. The big name vitamins are the ones found listed on the nutritional products you buy at the store with names like beta-carotene, thiamin, niacin, riboflavin, ascorbic acid, alpha tocopherol, etc. The typical store bought product typically has the quarterback in doses much larger than needed or that is safe for the body and there are no team members present to assure the success of the vitamin team. So who are the other team mates? Can you name one or even name the positions they play? They are called vitamers and they are similar molecules each having their own specific shape and role to play just like the other players on a football team. Without them the team(body) is not equipped to win and keep the body in optimum health. This is why taking the quarterback type vitamins often don’t seem to make much difference in your health.
Let’s look at one of the whole vitamin complexes as an example. This will help you understand how things really work and why whole food complex vitamins are the only right way to go. Let’s use Vitamin D. Its vitamers include Vitamin D2 (Ergocalciferol), Vitamin D3 (Cholecalciferol), Dihydrotachysterol, 25-0H-Cholecalciferol, 1,25 (OH)2-Cholecalciferol, and 1alpha-OH-Cholecalciferol. Typical store-bought supplements usually include Vitamin D2 or D3, but our bodies need all of them and not just the QB. You won’t find all of them in a typical vitamin product, nor will you find all of them added back into your favorite processed or fortified food. You will find all of them in many animal and dairy food products. The point is real whole foods are the only source for all complete vitamin complexes needed for normal good health.
In our office we sell nutritional supplements made from whole food complexes like carrots, pea vine juice, Brussels sprouts, kale, mushroom, oats, etc. raised on the Standard Process organic farm in Wisconsin. The reason for this is straight forward. Only in nature’s foods do we find nutrients in the right amounts and combinations perfectly provided for the health of our bodies. Obviously, there are no vitamin A, B, or C bushes or trees to be found anywhere on earth. So these quarterback vitamin parts without the whole team complement have been synthesized or isolated into their single molecular parts in a lab and then sold by the barrel-full to vitamin manufacturers (really). It may say natural on the bottle but does that sound natural to you? I heartily recommend you put the whole vitamin team on your nutritional playing field for your best health. Our choice as the premier whole food multi-vitamin product is called Catalyn. It also contains the RDA for Vitamin D! Give your body Whole Team Support - Call us today!
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Meanwhile, go Packers, er… Steelers!
Yours in Health,
Dr. Glenn Nicholas
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