For the over 10 trillion cells in your body to function and reproduce correctly – you need an extensive spectrum of vitamins, minerals and amino acids. Some of these vital substances are produced in the body but there are about 90 minerals, vitamins and amino acids (known as “essential vitamins, minerals and amino acids”) that your body does not produce. It must obtain them from outside sources. It does so via the food you eat. Our food must for optimum health contain all these essential nutrients and to the degree that it does not we suffer a malfunction in its complex, interrelated systems, manifested as physical illnesses or difficulties of mind and mood or both. Indeed, almost any dietary deficiency can include as one of its symptoms, depression.
Now, psychiatry may like to skip the correct medical and dietary handling, label you as “mentally ill” and flog you an addictive pill that will make you worse off but the drug makers wealthy, but the fact remains that almost all illness starts with or is precipitated by a nutritional deficiency and then careens rapidly downhill into compounding complexity from there. Most of the foods we eat in this age of wonders hijacked some time ago by corporate vandals severely lack these essential nutrients due to debt-driven manufacturing processes and dangerously depleted soils. The wise among us – and their numbers increase by the day – turn to dietary supplements to obtain the vital nutrients removed so carefully by rapacious corporate powers.
Regardless of the excuses put forward for why you are being slowly murdered, the depletion in the nutritional content of our food is, by the way, a form of covert rationing just as much as the concurrent addition of additives, preservatives and other toxins is covert poisoning. (If I did not know any better, I would swear that someone is trying to get rid of the human race!) If you yourself belong to the growing Army of the Wise and consume nutritional supplements, here is some useful information. Many mineral supplements on the market today are not easily assimilable by the body.
Minerals, for example calcium and zinc, are inorganic substances in the same category as carbon, sand, gold and iron. Objects in the mineral kingdom are made up of substances like carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, silicon, manganese, and a vast assortment of other elements and the body has a hard time breaking down minerals. It does not have the means to easily break down and recombine minerals into organic substances that it can process and use and more the efficiency of the body’s digestive system is inhibited by greater or lesser ill health, the greater the difficulty it will have.
There is however in nature an intermediary process by which minerals are broken down and processed into forms our bodies can more easily use: this is the role performed by plants. Plants take minerals from the soil, break them down and “digest” them – recombine them into the woof and warp of their own tissues. Thus, when we eat our fruit and vegetables (especially raw or lightly cooked vegetables) we consume vital minerals in forms our bodies can handle. And here we have a problem with mineral supplements. Many of the contain minerals in forms the body struggles to assimilate and when it cannot assimilate them, it either stores them somewhere or expels them. Most nutritional supplements on the market today are synthetic rather than deriving from natural plant sources and as such they are not easily assimilable by your body, if at all.
Moreover, many contain coal tars, artificial coloring, preservatives, sugar or other chemicals. Even the ones labeled “natural” are still processed in laboratories and often contain inordinate doses of one or more isolated nutrients such as Vitamin C or E. The problem here is that in nature nutrients are found in combination’s and are required by the body in combination’s. Mega-doses of one particular nutrient are not found in nature ands in the body, unbalanced by other nutrients, can actually cause artificial deficiencies. Research has shown that nutrient “families” work together to support and maintain good health. By denying your body the complete profile of nutrients you can cause deficiencies, imbalances or even destructive side effects as, for example, too much magnesium depletes calcium, or too much Vitamin C depletes Vitamin B12.
One does not want to be unduly alarmist. Even when badly done, nutritional supplementation is infinitely safer than being directly and often catastrophically shoved in the direction of ill mental and physical health by being drugged or eating processed food. In most cases, your body just flushes these undigested supplements from your system without even absorbing them.
Sometimes they lodge in the body somewhere and accumulate as evinced by the many people who receive colonics (intestinal flushing) and flush out pieces of undigested vitamins and mineral tablets that had been stuck in their intestines for years. This accounts too from the often disappointing health results of mineral supplementation. There is nothing wrong with the idea or principle and, for example, a balanced increase in zinc will indeed, get rid of your zinc deficiency and its symptoms, but it is a matter of the right formulation to achieve the intended result.
What’s the Solution?
The human body is a complex living organism, an interwoven whole of interrelated machinery with remarkable abilities to grow, regulate, repair and defend itself, provided it is supplied with the correct profile and spectrum of nutrients. The most nutrient-rich foods are so-called “wholefoods,” which means, whole complete foods that contain no additives, preservatives or chemicals. They are natural or organic foods in their original state the way Mother Nature intended and the way the body finds easiest to assimilate with efficiency.
Therefore, the most effective supplements are made exclusively from wholefood ingredients. Your body digests them as food because they ARE food, albeit condensed into tablet or capsule form, and not adulterated by chemicals or additives or unbalanced by a single nutrient in overabundance. They supply your body with a complete nutritional balance in the precise ratio and arrangement as found in nature, in other words the right nutritional profile.
Not only that, unlike “dead” synthetic vitamins, wholefood supplements are teeming with active, life-giving enzymes so needed by the body for processing its nutritional intake. Wild Blue-Green Algae is the most powerful wholefood supplement known to man because it contains all the essential minerals, amino acid, enzymes and so forth required by the body in a profile that almost exactly matches the body’s requirements.
