After talking about vitamins so much the last few weeks, I thought I’d give a shout out to the best source of vitamins/minerals: food. Yes, our soils (and as a result, the food it's grown on) are depleted of nutrients. Yes, food is harvested way too early before it's even ripe. Yes, food is often sprayed with pesticides. And yes, it's practically impossible nowadays to get your optimum nutrition by food alone. So having said all that, why is food sources of nutrients better? Let’s put it this way: why are oranges healthy for you? Vitamin C? Great, but let me ask this: Is an orange strictly a ball of Vitamin C? Absolutely not! It has hundreds, even thousands of other phytochemicals (plant chemicals), that work synergistically with the Vitamin C and with each other. That's how God made it. How silly to think we think we can simply boil down foods in our minds the primary one or two "supernutrients" and by putting those nutrients in a capsule, essentially elevate it so being equivalent to eating the food itself?
So, the summary is this: use supplements as needed, but remember: food first!
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