There is a joke going around within the medical profession about patients who take vitamin supplements. Since many of the supplements purchased by the general public are of poor quality, they end up being eliminated from the body through the normal channels. This rapid flush of synthetic nutrients is what leads some medical providers to assert that the only result of taking supplements is that it gives the patient “expensive urine”.
At the core, I have to agree with this statement, but not for the reason implied in the joke. With the sorry state of the American diet, it is absolutely necessary that people take proper supplementation. The key word is “proper.” The purpose of taking a nutritional supplement is to “supplement” your already good diet to make it complete. The artificial supplements that most people have purchased at the drugstore or at the big box retailer cannot accomplish this. The human body is designed to eat food; therefore all nutrition must come from food, including supplements necessary for a complete diet. Only the supplements made from concentrates of organic whole food truly “supplement” the diet.
Organic Whole Food Supplements
Yes, organic, whole food supplements will be more expensive. Synthetic vitamins produced in a laboratory can be made very cheaply, whereas growing organic whole food and concentrating it into a real food supplement is an expensive process. However, to the body, the difference is dramatic. One product must be eliminated as quickly as possible, while the other is absorbed to give the cells what they need to thrive and reproduce.


