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Why Should I Take Nutritional Supplements?

Research shows that while nothing can replace a healthy, wholesome diet, food supplements offer the benefits of a concentrated source of nutrients that food alone cannot provide. Many people are regularly supplementing their diets to ensure an adequate supply of essential nutrients to maintain basic health. Supplements help protect against toxins and prevent cell damage. They are used to fight disease and combat early aging. When used in addition to a healthy diet and regular exercise, EnerPrime™ and other IMPaX products can help you reach an optimal state of health.

What Causes Nutritional Deficiencies?

A number of causes contribute to mild deficiencies. Erratic eating habits are one of the most common culprits in today’s hectic lifestyle. Poor digestion inhibits the assimilation of nutrients. Many people suffer from poor digestion with only the mildest of symptoms. Digestion and assimilation tend to decline as we age, causing us to be deficient in many essential nutrients as a result.

Processing, cooking and preserving food leads to nutrient depletion. The quality of the foods we buy is often nutritionally poor. Many fruits and vegetables are genetically bred to improve yields, to look appealing and to withstand a long transport. Taste and nutritional value are secondary. EnerPrime™ can compensate for individual nutrient requirements.

How Do Nutrients Protect The Body?

Stress has a tremendous impact on the functions of the entire body, affecting heart rate, hormonal output and metabolism. As a result, essential nutrients are used up more quickly than usual. Environmental pollutants in our air, water and food also contribute to an accumulation of toxins which our body must work to eliminate. EnerPrime™ provides adequate essential nutrients to protect the body against the impact of toxins and help the body detoxify.

What Are Free Radicals and What Role Do They Play In Health?

Free radicals are highly reactive molecules capable of damaging cells and tissue. The antioxidant fight against free radicals is a continuous one, since free radicals are continually formed in the body. Free radicals are increased by injury, stress, pollution and illness. Since their discovery, they have been implicated as major players in many diseases, including heart disease and cancer. Free radicals also accelerate the aging process. The more free radicals that are formed, the more antioxidants are needed to neutralize them. At least part of the protective effect of EnerPrime™ is attributable to its antioxidant properties.

Why Are Antioxidants Important?

Research shows that many people supplement with antioxidants. Sports enthusiasts need more antioxidants because of their tendency to overexert. As we age, we require more antioxidants, and living in polluted environments increases this need as well. Beta-carotene and selenium are two examples of powerful antioxidants. Since no single antioxidant can destroy all the free radicals in the body, using them in combination increases their effectiveness.

What Is The Best Way To  Reach My Optimal State of Health?

In addition to maintaining proper nutrition and getting regular exercise, many people take supplements to attain an optimal state of health. By ensuring adequate levels of nutrients, many people feel better, have more energy and cope better with everyday stress. Others find they battle fewer infections and many nagging health problems have improved. Athletes use supplements to reach their peak performance levels. Provide your body with what it needs, and it will provide you with energy, health and longevity.

Treating yourself successfully with supplements can be an empowering experience. While high doses of supplements are not recommended for self-treatment without guidance from your health practitioner, there is a great deal you can do yourself. It takes time for the body to repair itself, but changing to a healthier lifestyle and using nutritional supplements will produce positive results in a natural way.

Exercise right, eat correctly; is that all it takes?

Not as we age. Supplements make up for the losses of aging. With age comes decreased capacity to repair cellular damage, to digest foods completely, to produce energy in the mitochondria, to recover from exercise, to take in and use oxygen, to circulate blood, to repair cartilage, etc. Supplements are the secret to getting around these limitations.

How Do I Know If EnerPrime Is The Right Supplement?

The right supplements for you will bring you mental clarity, give you more energy, and help you to feel motivated to be more healthy ...all of which means you will be more inclined to pursue a healthy lifestyle and to stay on a balanced track of eating and thinking "healthy" and exercising regularly.

It's true, and "the right supplements FOR YOU" is one of the keys. The other key is having and taking extremely high quality supplements such as EnerPrime. This is pretty basic, but the two biggest reasons most people don't take supplements are: 1) they don't what to take or how much, and 2) they don't know the quality of various supplements or even how to tell if they contain what the labels say they do.

Remember, the supplements are only one piece of a healthy lifestyle, but they are an extremely important piece ...especially if they help you to feel more naturally energetic and motivated, you will be much more likely to make healthy decisions about the rest of your lifestyle.

I Am Young. Do I Need To Use A Nutritional Supplement? 

Nutritional Supplements aren’t just for the elderly. Physicians and health care professional throughout the nation are recommending that most people take a nutritional supplement. However, if you’d rather find out for yourself, consider these questions.

Answering yes to even one of these questions may indicate that you aren’t receiving the full complement of vitamins and minerals that your body requires.  Another way to know if you need to supplement your diet is by looking at your body in the mirror, specifically the skin on your face. If you look in the mirror and see wrinkles, dark circles under your eyes, crow’s feet, and puffiness and sagging all in the wrong areas, chances are you aren’t getting everything you need from your diet.

How Will Nutritional Supplements Help With Stress?

We also have the extraordinary stresses of everyday life: children, spouses, work, friends, parents - a host of obligations and expectations! Stress has been shown to deplete nutrients and suppress immune function. That's in part because stress produces cortisol, and sustained high levels of cortisol are very detrimental to the body and the brain. And there's no doubt that the level of stress people deal with today is unprecedented.

So stress compounds the insult of poor nutrition in the modern diet. If the deficiency is sudden we can get very sick very quickly. But more often the nutritional deficiency wears us down bit by bit, and we slowly, steadily deteriorate. Eventually we show signs of accelerated aging and chronic disease. Our problems will persist and likely worsen unless and until we consistently get the essential nutrients we need. This is why nutritional supplements can make such a dramatic difference at mid-life.

I’m On A Fixed Income …Are Nutritional Supplements A Waste Of Money?

The primary issue is using the right supplements. If you think they are generally a waste of money, you must not understand what is now available and the amazing difference the right nutrients can do for our aging bodies. Today's foods are stripped of many critical nutrients and loaded with other elements that speed aging, depress the immune system and impede cellular activity.

With age comes decreased capacity to repair cellular damage, to digest foods completely, to produce energy in the mitochondria, to recover from exercise, to take in and use oxygen, to circulate blood, to repair cartilage, etc. Supplements are the secret to getting around these limitations.

What Are Some Of The Concerns Doctors Have Regarding The Use Of  Nutritional Supplements?

Dr. Picks states that “Doctors worry that patients will use nutritional supplements as a substitute for regular medical care, a good diet, or other important health habits. These are real concerns. Everyone should see a practitioner regularly. Nothing can replace a good diet and exercise. Nutritional supplements are a good health habit, too - just don’t use them as a crutch for bad health habits.”

“Most medical schools fail in nutritional instruction. Doctors tend to underestimate the importance of nutrition in general. No wonder: most doctors receive a mere few hours’ nutritional training in med school, and lack adequate time to keep up on the latest research. Their practice is based on disease screening, not prevention, with an emphasis on drug therapies, not nutrition. This is changing, especially among recent medical school graduates.”

Resources:

Why doctors are often opposed to nutritional supplements by Marcelle Pick, OB/GYN NP

Your Inner Pharmacy, Dr. Blaich