Should you take supplements?

Supplements are products designed to add essential nutrients, such as vitamins, minerals, amino acids, fatty acids, or herbs to the diet. They help you maintain balance and energy when food alone is not enough. They come in capsule, powder, liquid or tablet form. And there is absolutely a difference in the quality of supplements you buy in a supermarket and the practitioner grade supplements I provide for my clients.

Due to modern farming, nutrient depleted soils, busy lifestyles and processed foods, we are generally not getting enough vitamins and minerals in our diet.

Essential vitamins and minerals.

Magnesium is responsible for over 300 different functions in the body and ATP production which is essential for energy. It is also responsible for DNA repair when we are exposed to damage from our environment, unhealthy diets or UV radiation. If you don’t have enough magnesium, it will just be preserved for energy production rather than repairing damage. Zinc is crucial for wound healing and a healthy immune system and many of us do not get enough in our diet.Deficiencies in vitamins and minerals can also cause serious issues. For example vitamin A deficiency can cause blindness.

Vitamins and minerals in small amounts, can cure disease, alleviate symptoms and significantly improve health. Nutrients also have a pleomorphic effect in the body, which means they do many things and have many functions, like magnesium for example.

There is NO drug that can do that. So why would we not improve our vitamin and mineral intake if we could? Taking supplements therapeutically is about OPTIMAL health that will help to prevent disease.

The way to use supplements!

You might have heard someone say that taking supplements just gives you "expensive urine", that they pass straight through your body without doing much. But that’s not entirely true. Many research trials evaluating supplements are designed similarly to drug studies — and that's a problem. Drugs and supplements aren't comparable. When testing a drug, researchers measure how much is present in the bloodstream because there’s no natural baseline. But vitamins and minerals already exist in the body, and they don't work in isolation.

Nutrients are synergistic, which means they depend on each other to function properly. For example, magnesium helps the body use calcium effectively. Measuring one nutrient without considering its interactions gives an incomplete picture of how supplements really work inside us.

That being said, I would not be recommending that we take supplements for the rest of our lives, but as a practitioner I use them in a therapeutic and targeted way depending on your goals!

Do you know what to take?

There are many people I know that are taking supplements, but are you taking what you need or just second guessing what to have?

If you want to know more about the supplements you should be taking, then I would recommend working with a practitioner and testing!

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