Do We Really Need Supplements?

I think you can decide for yourself once we go over some basic understanding of the needs of our bodies. Health supplementation has been around formally for almost one hundred years. There are some cultures that having been using herbal supplements for thousands of year.
Let’s start with the concept of what food gives us. In addition to all of the traditions and social reasons for eating, food gives us the fuel our body needs to run on. It is made up of nutrients that we use as building blocks. It has minerals and trace minerals and other essential components for all of the functions that cells, organs and systems of the body use to work every second of every day. Another important component which is often ignored is the enzymes inherent in all foods that assist in breaking it down into the perfect makeup to be used by the person that eats it.
Let’s go over some of the issues that we have with our foods currently that may make supplements important. The first one is that most people get their nutritional advice from TV advertisers. Unfortunately, our basic understanding of food and nutrition is sadly lacking so it has been virtually ignored for decades. Much of our food today is made in a lab and does not even come close to the type of food that our grandparents put in their mouths. There are chemicals, processed ingredients, and artificial colors and flavors which most of our ancestors rarely experienced if at all. We have been taught to pay close attention to calories or amounts but have completely ignored the actual quality of the foods.
I will give you a very simple way of looking at food which will help change your view forever. Food is alive and when we eat it we absorb the energy in the form of all the nutrients and transform it into energy that we can use. It takes a certain specific energy which is similar to the gasoline in your car. The car has to have a certain type of fuel in order to have the chemical reactions take place to make it go. What would happen if you put freshly squeezed organic orange juice in the tank? How about a gallon of the finest wine? The point is that if they did not process the gas correctly so that it was the correct grade it would not make the car move.
So assuming that we all eat extremely well then we should get all of the nutrients that we need to function optimally and we would not need supplements. Well the problem is that I am still waiting to meet the person who eats so well. Some of the obvious issues like fast food and junk food as well as processed food are lacking this vital energy. The gasoline is not the right grade to run our engines.
Another major problem is that our top soil which we grow our foods in is being used to quickly for it to replenish itself adequately. This leads to food which looks fine but has less nutrient value than it did years ago.
So do we really need supplements? Watch this short video and decide for yourself.

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