Why We NEED to Supplement
It's not what we eat, it's what we absorb. Clean lifestyle eating is always recommended, along with exercise and supplementationWhy should we Supplement?Mass produce foods, the convenience of how we eat, the workouts we put our bodies through, and to strengthen our immune system. 7 reasons why we need supplements: 1. Gap in nutrition 2. Nutrient absorption declines with age 3. Avoid harmful chemicals 4. EXERCISE increases nutrient needs 5. Poor diet 6. Prevent expensive health issues 7. Soil depletion
https://linknutrition.com/blogs/news/soil-depletion-and-why-we-need-vitamins-more-than-ever
The plants we eat support human health in many ways. They provide us with carbohydrates, proteins and fats for energy, and vitamins and minerals to support the body's essential processes. These vitamins and minerals are both synthesized in the plant and drawn from the surrounding soil.
Due to the nature of modern farming practices the quality of vitamins and minerals found in soil has gradually decreased over hundreds of years. As the quality of the soil decreases fewer vital micronutrients transfer into the food we eat. In fact, to get the same amount of vitamin A from an orange as our grandparents would have done, we would need to eat eight oranges today.
What is soil degradation?
Prior to the advent of farming, plants grew wild and the edible parts or the whole plant were harvested as needed. Nutrients drawn from the soil as the plant grew were gradually replaced through natural life cycles which maintained the quality of the soil. Modern intensive farming, however, is different. The continuous use of soil to meet society’s ever-increasing food demands strips the soil of valuable nutrients leaving each crop with fewer nutrients than the previous harvest. Modern agriculture focuses on producing crops maximized for size, growth rate and resistance to pests, not nutrition. Faster growing crops allow farmers to produce more in a year, but do not enable plants to uptake quality nutrients at a similar rate.
A large-scale study on the nutrient value of foods conducted between 1930 and 1980 and published in the British Food Journal found that in 20 vegetables the average calcium content in this time had declined 19%, Iron 22%, and potassium 14%. Vitamins A and C, niacin, riboflavin, thiamine, magnesium, zinc and copper also showed a reduction in this time. In addition, produce is increasingly being shipped thousands of miles and sitting in storage or on shelves for weeks, causing a greater degradation of the nutrient profile.
Bridging the gap
The unfortunate news is that taking steps to improve soil quality, like alternating fields between growing seasons, is largely inaccessible. What we can do is ensure that our fruit and vegetable intake is high enough to accommodate the reduction in nutritional value. The NHS recommends that people eat a minimum of 5 servings of fruit and vegetables per day, but some studies show that this number needs to be much higher, as high as 10 servings, in order to preserve good health.
A high-quality food state multivitamin can help address insufficiencies of some of the most lacking vitamins and minerals. This doesn’t mean that vitamin supplements are an adequate substitute for a diet rich in plant sources. Fruits and vegetables contain things other than vitamins and minerals that are still essential to good health, including macronutrients like fats, carbohydrates and proteins, fiber, and beneficial phytochemicals.
We believe that by eating a diet predominantly made up of whole-foods, high in vitamins and minerals, and taking a high-quality multivitamin, you are giving yourself the best chance for good health.
My personal recommendation are our Daily Foundations Extreme Endurance, Omega, Immune Boost
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Jason St Clair
