Why Whole Food Supplements?

You may have noticed that all three of the basic supplements I suggest are whole foods based. There’s a reason for that. After 20+ years of researching supplements, I am firmly convinced of the power of having nutrients delivered to your body in the form nature designed.

Regular vitamins are a food’s active ingredients that have been concentrated and often synthesized and then given back to us in ratios and concentrations that are dissimilar to how they exist in natural foods. The other complex organic compounds and phyto-nutrients that buffer, support and complement the vitamins are missing.

Whole food supplements, on the other hand, offer nutrients in the way nature intended them, or at least as close as you can get without eating the food itself.

The government now recommends that we eat 5-9 fruits and vegetables a day. It’s difficult to eat that much without overeating. Since most of us live busy lives, lives where cooking and eating three completely balanced, nutritious meals a day takes more time, energy and knowledge than we have to give, it’s easy not to eat as well as we would like. Poor nutrition often happens accidentally. While not a replacement for a healthful diet, the Pops do help fill the gap.

Healthy Bowels = Happy Life

You may also notice that both the Pops and Noni have a strong orientation towards keeping your liver and digestive systems working well. This, too, is intentional. Your liver helps your body eliminate what it can’t assimilate. And if you can’t assimilate something you certainly don’t want it sitting around in your body with nothing to do. A healthy liver improves your immune system, which in turn reduces your chances for cancer and many other degenerative diseases.

Both Noni and the Pops help stimulate your body’s natural enzyme system, which, again, urges your digestive system towards healthy functioning. One of my medical school professors was famous for his statement that “ A good set of bowels is worth more to a happy life than a good set of brains.” My twenty plus years of clinical practice has consistently reaffirmed how true his statement was. Both Noni and the Pops help align your digestive processes by encouraging precise functioning of your enzymes on a cellular level. This helps your digestion and we all know how unpleasant a dysfunctional digestive system can be. I doubt I need to elaborate on this point.

Recent research strongly concludes that everyone would do well to enhance their digestive flora by taking additional friendly flora. Traditionally, most diets around the world included fermented foods… Mead, sauerkraut, miso, pickles, just to name a few, were all eaten raw; thereby preserving the natural flora that grew during the fermentation process. Now, even if we eat these foods, they are generally pasteurized or heated in their packaging process. Heat kills off the natural friendly flora. Unless you ferment things at home, very few raw fermented foods remain available to eat. Since it is difficult to get enough friendly bacteria through our foods, it is comforting to know you can get them in your Pops.

An Ounce of Prevention…

In conclusion, my recommendations come to you after thorough examination of both the latest nutritional research and the supplement market. I chose this combination of supplements because it is a comprehensive whole food regimen that provides both high quality protective nutrition and is reasonably priced. You’ll spend approximately $100 a month if you follow my plan, a bit more if you are take calcium. But, you’ll be getting quite a bargain for high quality products.

By combining friendly flora, digestive enzymes and antioxidants with the nutritional boost of the fruits and veggies into one product, the Pops alone save at least $75 a month. Taken alone the individual ingredients could easily cost over a $100 without the Noni or Omega 3 Oils and you’d still be missing some of the extras the Pops provide (like the Luetin for your eyes, and Indole-3-Carbinol for breast health).

Remember, you are in your body for the long haul. Taking care of it just makes sense. These are supplements that plan for the future. They encourage cellular health, which in turn discourages the degenerative diseases that make aging uncomfortable.

I hope that you choose to invest in your health and happiness by choosing proper supplementation. You’re worth it.

To your health,

Steve Hall MD

PS For your convenience here are the links again for the Pops and Noni:
http://www.uptownmama.com for the Pops and http://www.tni.com/SteveHallMD  for Noni