Confused About the Recent Studies on Multivitamins?
Why would one recent study indicate no link between longevity and another research found a benefit for improving cognitive function?
Here are my thoughts on the matter…
Many individuals bring in their personal supplements for me to review – I find that many of them contain poor quality ingredients with the incorrect, synthetic forms of vitamins or additives that simply just shouldn’t be in the product. Unfortunately many people just waste their money because the body can not utilize these inferior forms of nutrients. In fact they can actually harm you!
In general, supplements should be derived from whole foods / nutrients to ensure optimal nutritional benefit for the body for any given condition. Sometimes this is difficult to decipher off the label, but in general a multivitamin or supplement should list recognizable foods or animal / plant extracts, such as kale, broccoli, beets, rice bran, sweet potato, and / or liver extracts. So why not take a handful of isolated nutrients? This is not how God designed our body to work! Taking high dose or synthetic nutrients is more like taking a medication, this strategy is only rarely needed in cases of severe deficiency. Side effects can result as the body becomes “off balance.” Whole food supplements like the foundational products ABA carries contain an array of enzymes, coenzymes, antioxidants, trace elements, and activators that are needed to work together as a synergistic complex.
Remember our ABA name means – A Balanced Approach!
