Q: Are supplements necessary?

A: It is well understood that soils have become depleted of essential minerals and that people do not obtain anywhere near sufficient quantities of essential nutrients from the food currently being consumed. The nutrient quality of food has been eroded through modern farming techniques, processing, transportation, as well as the preoccupation of food producers to make the food look good on the shelf rather than being concerned about the quality of the food for our bodies.

These factors, combined with poor food choices and imbalanced diets, contribute to an inadequate intake of vital nutrients. Nutritional supplementation is essential in the modern world. There are, however, significant differences in the quality and efficiency of different nutrient supplements.

Q: Where Do The Vitamins and Minerals Come From?

A: The vast majority of vitamins and minerals available today are supplied by a few extremely large and powerful chemical companies. These companies dig up or produce the nutrients that go into the countless various brands of products that you see in all stores today. The nutrients that these few companies produce fall under the labeling of USP (United States Pharmacopoeia) and you will see this on most of the containers of the vitamins and minerals you buy today.

The trouble is these companies do not supply the nutrients in a food source that the body recognizes. They either break the food down and extract each vitamin separately or grind up rock to extract the minerals. These are known as Isolated Chemical nutrients, as they have been isolated from the food source leaving you with a single nutrient such as Iron.

Just because the vitamin came from what would be considered a natural source, does not mean it is natural. Once they are isolated from the natural things they are bound to in foods, like amino acids, proteins, carbohydrates, lipids and bioflavinoids, they no longer contain what they did in food to make them stable. In the laboratory, their chemical structure is then altered to make them stable. But once this happens, they are no longer natural and not usable by the body. They are no longer bioavailable.

Q: What are isolated chemical vitamins and minerals?

A: Knowing that our current food supply does not supply all the nutrients necessary to survive, in an attempt to make our life easier, science has found a way to compensate for the loss. Nutrients are removed from their natural environment and presented as a synthesized single chemical. As an example, ascorbic acid is never isolated in nature, but occurs in a food matrix, molecularly bonded to other food elements including bioflavonoids, proteins, carbohydrates and lipids and known as carrier co-factors.

The body recognizes nutrients in a food form and can efficiently utilize nutrients from whole food. The body has difficulty in recognizing and processing the chemically isolated forms and so just rejects it. To give you an example, if you took the wheels, engine and seats out of your car you would not get very far. This is basically what you are doing by removing the nutrient from the complex matrix of a whole food. The absorption factor for most chemical isolates is in the area of 5% and very rarely exceeds 20%. This may be the reason that many scientists and doctors have suggested that taking large amounts of supplements is only useful for producing expensive urine. Taking standard USP forms of isolated nutrients, vitamins and supplements is equivalent to sending your mail out without addressing the envelope. The nutrients don't get to where they needed to go.

Q: Can I take the products in Blood Sugar Pack along with my Medications?

YES, there are NO contraindications w/ medications.

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