We are preparing our body for the detox of all detoxes. The cleanse of all cleanses. Trust me, we are embarking on an almost religious experience together through this gut health journey. You might not believe in god or goddesses today, but maybe you will once we get through this together.
In holistic medicine it is believed that you must heal the root in the ground so that the tree is stable first. Meaning, if you are trying to get healthy it is best to get the body right first before trying to get anything else done.
If you don’t do much exercise to begin with, do not try to start exercising now. Try exercising if you can, but if you’re really unhealthy and are not used to exercising everyday just remember that this journey is a marathon and not a sprint. It is much more fruitful for you on this gut health journey to be getting your body’s foundation correct first, before placing it through the stress of a detox or cleanse or new exercise regimen.
Why take supplements?
The biggest reason why I use nutritional supplementation is because I’m convinced that the food we are buying here in America has become completely unrecognizable to my human microbiome. Due to the rise of genetic engineering and modified foods (GMOs), I believe that our bodies no longer recognizes the crops we are eating.
When your doctor, parent, or whatever, is telling you that you should be able to get all your nutrients, vitamins and minerals from food sources alone, this is partially true historically. And somewhat geographically varied in this day and age. Yes, in an ideal world we should be able to obtain all our nutrients from food alone, and yes there was a time when this was happening, but it just isn’t happening anymore. And the sooner we admit that something is wrong with our food, the happier and better we’ll be.
During the 1950’s, 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, even up until the 90’s I would argue that almost all food was still organic because this was prior to the advent of GMO’s in the 2000s. There was no other alternative. Organic was the mainstream and there were no other options. Processed foods weren’t really a thing back then either, this came later.
Somewhere during the mid-2000s, there was a switch: organic foods became a rarity and now GMOs have become the norm. Not for all countries but definitely a lot of them in the west. This is why I’m saying it is partially true AND geographically varied because some countries outright banned GMOs when they first started coming out. And at the introduction of GMOs in the 2000’s, coincidentally, auto-immune diseases have since sky-rocketed yet nobody talks about it.
Why did we make the switch to GMOs? The west and America places a greater importance on profits over the quality of what’s being produced. The bottom-line profits are more important every time. This is capitalism. Genetic manipulation of crops allows agriculturalists to obtain much higher yields per crop but this exchange is costing us our health.
I think “their” long game is that we’ll just adapt to these new crops over time. But when I look around and see how many people are walking around nutrient deficient, it surely is the food and I don’t expect our bodies to suddenly start absorbing these foreign entities.
Because most food in America is nutrient deficient, it is smart to take supplements to make up whatever nutrient deficiencies we might need addressing from our food. Just my two cents.
Make no mistake: no nutrient, vitamin, nor mineral is ever going to compete with the bioavailability of food. The best way to get your vitamins and minerals is still from food but it must be organic. Organic food is — and always will be — the best way for humans to obtain their nutrients. Through food. But if food isn’t recognizable to our bodies then our bodies are going to reject it.
Multivitamins
