Here's a picture of why most people need a multivitamin. I was standing
at the local Costco and the people in front of me had massive amounts of cereal in their cart.
This happens to me every time I shop. When you're shopping in a grocery store the majority of the products in there are going to be processed.
This is a picture of a fairly typical cart. We see some eggs,those are good and some cheese, that can be good. Then we see processed chocolate milk, processed bread, two boxes of heavily processed cereal, processed rice.
Now, shopping on Saturday you'll be hard-pressed to find a cart that doesn't have some of these processed products in it. This is the world we live in.
The primary reason the food manufacturers process food is to increase the shelf life. To do that, all of the natural vitamins that can go rancid are removed and replaced with artificial ones.
An artificial vitamin can act very similar to a drug. It can interfere with the natural action of a real vitamin because the structure is so similar but because it is artificial it doesn't actually do what it is supposed to do.
Think of it this way, if you go to any shopping mall and you see a complex of stores there are clothing stores, toy stores, music stores, restaurants, all kinds of shoe stores, they all make up a mall.
Now if you're in a small town and the town is slowly dying and all the stores move out, you are left with an empty mall.
You can think of an empty mall as a pretty shell that looks good on the outside but the inside is devoid of people, products, activity, and all of the things that make a vibrant mall work.
Processed food and artificial vitamins are very much like a dead shopping mall.
Every study that I've seen that compares processed vitamins to real food, the people always do better eating the real food. You can probably figure out why.
Now, the only thing we suggest to fill up your stores faster, is to take a real food multivitamin.
Eating processed food daily is pretty much inevitable for nearly everyone.
It is also one of those slow destructive forces that gets you over a long period of time. You don't eat a bunch of cereal in the morning then all of a sudden feel your heart about to explode.
One little tip for you.
If you see the words and enriched on the ingredients list you are definitely eating artificial vitamins.
I use Catalyn, the original, whole food multivitamin from Standard Process, to help my body fill up all the empty spaces. I do what ever I can to avoid processed food, but there is another reason to take a whole food multivitamin. The majority of food is raised on artificial soil. That's another topic for later.
Just something to think about. A few supplements every one should take.