DITCH THE ROCKS & DIRT
Okay..so all the authorities recommend more servings of fruits and vegetables per day for health and wellness than most people can or will take. And now they say that using vitamin and mineral supplements is recommended, if not a necessity.
But how does a person choose the best vitamin-mineral complex? Unfortunately most people routinely take dietary supplements without doing their homework on whether the product they are taking actually works in their bodies. That the supplements we take are actually assimilated and utilized by the body is particularly important when dealing with minerals. If the supplement we take is not assimilated by the body, little is absorbed -- as little as 5-10%.
Minerals in dietary supplements come in a number of forms. Minerals are essentially rocks and metals, in their native form. Obviously, humans are not designed to digest rocks and metals; only worms and plants do that effectively. The goal for mineral assimilation has been to do something to them in the lab to make them more bio-available.
Minerals are hard to absorb. They need to be modified in some way for the body to utilize them. Once ingested, they need to be escorted to the blood stream, and then be in a form that can be assimilated into the cells before they can actually help you. The body often mis-regulates their transport and some, sharing the same metabolic pathways, will compete against one another resulting in too much of one and a deficiency of another.
Look for mineral supplements that have research and processing that allows for the highest absorption and assimilation rates. Don't go by everything you hear advertised on t.v. You may be wasting your money.
Want to find out which company's minerals work the best? Go to Smart Supplementation and check out the "Optimal Health & Wellness Products"...specifically PhytoMatrix.
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