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Preserving Nature's Vitality Whole food supplements and Innate Response Formulas®: Looking beyond common beliefs about supplements. By James Doherty -- Fall 2009, Vol 5, Issue 17 -- Download the PDF 
What color is a yield sign? Stop and think about the answer for a second... What is your answer? Did you guess yellow? Most people do. The reality is that yield signs are red. And they have been red for decades. Once our brains have learned a piece of information, we often don't register or process new information on a subject. Case in point is supplements. Somewhere along the way, people pick up the idea that supplements are supplements and that more is better; most don't even question what is in the supplement, let alone where it came from. I have had the pleasure of working with many different practitioners over the years. All of these practitioners represent many different modalities and protocols. Many used regular "pure" vitamins and many others, as a testament to the tremendous growth that Innate Response Formulas is achieving, are using whole food supplements. As more and more new practitioners look into whole food supplements we often hear the same question: "How do you translate the lower potency of Innate
Response 100% whole food potencies with the higher
potency of regular "pure" vitamins?"
More so than simply switching from one vitamin line to another, using whole food supplements as part of your protocols requires a renewed focus on creating a complete nutritional foundation that is in alignment with a well-balanced whole food diet. Although many of the practitioners with whom I've worked utilize different modalities and protocols, most share a mantra that is repeated over and over again. Eat a well-balanced whole food diet, stay away from processed and refined foods. Refined foods are devoid of phytochemistry and key nutritional factors. Refined foods have elevated levels (high potencies) of sugar, fat and have been stripped of key nutrients to a point where only some are added back in as isolated "pure" vitamins. In order to realize the difference between lower potency whole food supplements and isolated "pure" vitamins, we must see the "red" yield sign. Here it is. Refined foods and isolated vitamins have been stripped of their phytochemistry, offering higher potencies of just a few of the nutrients the foods originally contained. I don't think anybody will deny that fact. Now take a look at a whole food such as oranges. They contain 60 mgs of vitamin C and tens of thousands of phytochemicals. Refined ascorbic acid or calcium ascorbate provides only one nutrient - vitamin C. Do you replace an orange with a calcium ascorbate capsule? Of course not... Do you recommend a whole food diet? Why should your supplements be any different? Recommend whole food supplements for your patients' nutritional foundation. By creating a broader more complete phytochemistry foundation for your patients you're providing a long-term value to all of the protocols you create on a daily basis. If you are open to this complementary approach of using whole food supplements to complement a whole food diet then you are open to the value of the lower, more dynamic phytochemistry that whole food supplements provide. There are many reasons to choose whole food supplements and I think you will find that Innate Response Formulas is among the best available today. Here's why. Vertically Integrated Manufacturing There are over 1400 different vitamin companies available today. Too many companies are simply marketing companies, not manufacturers. Of these 1400 different vitamin companies almost 85% fall into this category. I don't deny some great companies can locate a good contract manufacturer to produce their products. It's just very difficult for this type of manufacturer to ensure these products meet the company' s quality expectations on a daily basis. RETURN HOME from whole food supplements and innate response |
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