Why are whole-food supplements better?
When whole foods are eaten, different nutrients work together in ways that are better for us than each one working alone. It is not possible to get the same results from synthetic or crystalline supplements. By 1992, scientists had discovered over 3,200 nutrient components in food. Keep that in mind when you look at the label of your vitamin supplement with perhaps only 50-70 ingredients, and compare that product to the thousands of nutrients that naturally occur in whole-food. More is better, but it’s not about more milligrams, it’s about more diversity. Using whole-food supplements is the only way to be certain of getting all of the benefits created in nature. Whole-foods contain complete vitamins, but isolated vitamins do not contain the complete whole-food complex. Nutritional research tends to focus on the effects of individual molecules in simple laboratory models, but these synthetic and fragmented vitamins are grossly lacking the phytonutrients and additional co-factors which a
