The Vitamin Pill Misconception

Many people take vitamin supplements on a daily basis thinking that they are getting their needed nutrition. Isolated nutrients often lose the overall benefit that the balanced nutrition of a whole plant can offer. To qualify as a healthy food, a plant or some portion of a plant must be used in its whole form. Our bodies need thousands of different types of nutrients, not just a few vitamins, like A, B, C, D, E, etc. Vitamin supplements appear to be a fast and efficient solution to make up for malnutrition, but new studies show that vitamins do not function independently - they are complex structures that work synergistically with other vitamins and nutrients found in the plants. Vitamins are present in all plant foods and are essential for good health; however, isolated vitamins are not healthy. What we are just now discovering is that isolated vitamins (nutrients in plants that are taken out and concentrated into pills) are not as beneficial as initially thought. In fact, vitamins that have been isolated away from the wholesome plant actually become toxic and will throw the body chemistry out of balance. Even if taking vitamin supplements was beneficial, would those few vitamins be enough to give our Immune System ample nutrition? Obviously not, because cancer and heart diseases are still major causes of death and are still on the rise. Inside each type of plant, there are literally thousands of vitamins, minerals, and phytochemicals that our bodies need. It is always best to eat wholesome foods and not isolated vitamins because there might be other nutrients inside plants that scientists have not discovered yet! We need the whole spectrum of nutrients from the plant, not just a few nutrients from it! Ask yourself, is my body so simple that just a few vitamin pills can keep you healthy? Obviously the answer is no, we need to get our nutrition from wholesome, organically grown plant foods!

Your Immune System doesn't need drugs. It needs the Nutrition that can only come from wholesome organically grown plant foods and herbs, grown, harvested, and processed, with strict adherence to the principles of Nutritional Immunology.