In John 10:10, Jesus said “The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.”
Besides what we’ve seen recently in the political realm, this same issue has been consistent when it comes to the foods made available to us for nourishing our bodies. Not everything available in the grocery store will nourish your body.
This same concept is true when it comes to supplementing your body with vitamins, minerals, and herbs. Most of what you find on the shelf will have the various nutrients you’re expecting listed on the labels with impressive numbers of milligrams following. Obviously, what will be listed are the elements we’re looking for and buying the product to provide. The micro-nutrients are actually what makes the rest work.
The complexity of food goes way beyond just the known vitamins and minerals. I may know of what I think to be critical component of the engine in my car, but there are parts there which I probably would leave out if I were to try and build an engine from scratch. That said, it wouldn’t run right if at all.
Over half a century ago I worked in a camera and jewelry store, and had observed the watchmaker open and work on watches under great magnification to deal with the intricate parts. I understood the concept of a balance staff, mainspring, and the various jewels or gears involved, but I was savvy enough to recognize that two or more mainsprings or balance staffs within the watch would prevent the watch from working. Within that watch, every component was dependent on every other component. Too much or too little of any one element would foul up the works.
We live in a society of bigger being better. Unfortunately what little we still understand about the complexity of living food seems to go ignored as we isolate specific elements which we recognize in foods to be important, loading up on these, yet leaving out individual components we’ve not yet given the same importance to.
As science delves deeper into microscopic elements like viruses, the small elements in foods seem to get swept under the carpet. A crucial element eliminated from many foods involves some of the normal bacterial and fungal elements which live in healthy soil. These have been found to be very much needed to create nutrients often ignored.
One such element has been found to impart flexibility to tissues. When agricultural practices involve the use of chemicals to sterilize the soil, these critical components are destroyed, and the foods which should be containing these essential elements are left void of them. Everything on the outside appears good, yet the functional biochemistry of the food will not sustain life as it should. This is one reason I encourage consumption of organic foods, grown in nutrient rich soil.
When I walked into Costco last weekend, lining the entire entrance were massive pallets of synthetic vitamin supplements. Unfortunately people have been educated into believing these mega-vitamin supplements will greatly benefit them. We’ve been taught that vitamin C, D, and zinc will help to prevent viral episodes like Covid, but the form we obtain these in has been corrupted.
Vitamin C involves far more than ascorbic acid. This is just the protective component which exists in the plant which is creating the vitamin C complex. Consuming large amounts of ascorbic acid is like collecting egg shells to make omelets out of. I personally want all the elements the plant has constructed that the ascorbic acid is protecting. The same holds true with vitamin E and the tocopherols.
If we isolate all the components of these vitamins and then dump them together into a supplement, it’s like dumping all the components of a watch into a box and hoping it will tell time. The process of photosynthesis is what assembles these nutrients together so they can function in your body. Over the last four decades, I’ve come to greatly appreciate the complexity and functional integrity of whole food supplements like those provided me by Standard Process and MediHerb. These have proven over the test of time that big numbers don’t work. It’s biochemical synergy which heals.
Besides what we’ve seen recently in the political realm, this same issue has been consistent when it comes to the foods made available to us for nourishing our bodies. Not everything available in the grocery store will nourish your body.
This same concept is true when it comes to supplementing your body with vitamins, minerals, and herbs. Most of what you find on the shelf will have the various nutrients you’re expecting listed on the labels with impressive numbers of milligrams following. Obviously, what will be listed are the elements we’re looking for and buying the product to provide. The micro-nutrients are actually what makes the rest work.
The complexity of food goes way beyond just the known vitamins and minerals. I may know of what I think to be critical component of the engine in my car, but there are parts there which I probably would leave out if I were to try and build an engine from scratch. That said, it wouldn’t run right if at all.
Over half a century ago I worked in a camera and jewelry store, and had observed the watchmaker open and work on watches under great magnification to deal with the intricate parts. I understood the concept of a balance staff, mainspring, and the various jewels or gears involved, but I was savvy enough to recognize that two or more mainsprings or balance staffs within the watch would prevent the watch from working. Within that watch, every component was dependent on every other component. Too much or too little of any one element would foul up the works.
We live in a society of bigger being better. Unfortunately what little we still understand about the complexity of living food seems to go ignored as we isolate specific elements which we recognize in foods to be important, loading up on these, yet leaving out individual components we’ve not yet given the same importance to.
As science delves deeper into microscopic elements like viruses, the small elements in foods seem to get swept under the carpet. A crucial element eliminated from many foods involves some of the normal bacterial and fungal elements which live in healthy soil. These have been found to be very much needed to create nutrients often ignored.
One such element has been found to impart flexibility to tissues. When agricultural practices involve the use of chemicals to sterilize the soil, these critical components are destroyed, and the foods which should be containing these essential elements are left void of them. Everything on the outside appears good, yet the functional biochemistry of the food will not sustain life as it should. This is one reason I encourage consumption of organic foods, grown in nutrient rich soil.
When I walked into Costco last weekend, lining the entire entrance were massive pallets of synthetic vitamin supplements. Unfortunately people have been educated into believing these mega-vitamin supplements will greatly benefit them. We’ve been taught that vitamin C, D, and zinc will help to prevent viral episodes like Covid, but the form we obtain these in has been corrupted.
Vitamin C involves far more than ascorbic acid. This is just the protective component which exists in the plant which is creating the vitamin C complex. Consuming large amounts of ascorbic acid is like collecting egg shells to make omelets out of. I personally want all the elements the plant has constructed that the ascorbic acid is protecting. The same holds true with vitamin E and the tocopherols.
If we isolate all the components of these vitamins and then dump them together into a supplement, it’s like dumping all the components of a watch into a box and hoping it will tell time. The process of photosynthesis is what assembles these nutrients together so they can function in your body. Over the last four decades, I’ve come to greatly appreciate the complexity and functional integrity of whole food supplements like those provided me by Standard Process and MediHerb. These have proven over the test of time that big numbers don’t work. It’s biochemical synergy which heals.
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