Article: Basics Before Best
Basics Before Best
Imagine…
…cooking a meal with only the seasonings.
…getting dressed by only wearing your accessories.
…assuming your appliance is broken before checking to see if it’s plugged in.
This is ridiculous of course, but you may be doing it everyday with your supplements.
Look in your cabinet. Do you have shelves full of bottles for every vitamin and mineral, enzyme, protein, fiber, and who knows what else?
Did an ad tell you that curcumin is the best way to battle inflammation? Who needs turmeric?!
Did your friend tell you that you need more protein and give you a bottle of powder to try? Who needs deficiencies to tell you what to do? Just dowse your cells in protein and all will be fine!
If you’re constantly looking for “the best”, but don’t have any of the basics down pat, this is a sign that you’ve skipped over the actual nutrition and went straight to its individual parts.
With the way supplements are sold to us today, it’s so easy to forget that they originally came in a package perfectly suited for human health - plants. But humans like to overcomplicate things, so we dissect these perfect packages, mining for their individual parts to be sold back to us in 50 separate bottles.
Now, I’m not saying there aren’t some effective uses for isolated vitamins, minerals, and other nutritional components, but what I AM saying is that this shouldn’t be our first order of business, let alone the ONLY step we take when we want to nourish our bodies.
It’s like tasting an amazing curry and realizing that coriander is a key ingredient, so now instead of eating curry goat or coconut chickpea curry you just dust coriander into your mouth. Not quite the same thing is it?
So then why do we do this with our supplements? Well, there’s several reasons that we can talk about in another article, but more urgently, let’s talk about the foundation of a really effective supplement regimen.
Real food. Primarily plants. Plants are the perfect delivery system for all the incredibly powerful components they contain to nourish and heal our bodies. They work in perfect harmony with our digestive system and microbiota that live inside us.
When a plant becomes known for an incredible health benefit, what do we do? Rather than just say, “Great! I’m going to keep eating this plant”, we reverse engineer the plant to find the individual part that we can replicate in a lab and mass produce. Companies make more money this way and you happily embrace the "silver bullet" approach that popping a pill is a safe and effective alternative for eating nutritious food.
The down side here is that the complex structure of the plant was the delivery system for that component. The whole plant and its interactions within our bodies are responsible for the effectiveness that we attribute to that one part. It would be terribly boring to watch a conductor without the orchestra - all parts are necessary for the expected result.
B-Vitamins are incredible at supporting the body to repair damaged DNA. But B-Vitamins are heat sensitive. SO, just because you’re taking a pill from a bottle that’s labeled “B-Vitamin”, doesn’t mean that pill comes with the benefits that the B-Complex is known for, since most supplements go through a “kill step” during manufacturing that subjects the ingredients to high heat. And this is assuming the ingredients weren't just made in a lab in the first place.
This is why NuSpecies focuses on the fundamentals of human health - the laws of chemistry and physics that govern our bodies. We don’t follow every trend, so we can sell products. We provide raw, organic plants that have been used by humans for thousands of years, so you can get the results you came to NuSpecies for.
We use a unique manufacturing technique called cold processing, so the plant ingredients in our formulas maintain their integrity and provide your body with the health benefits you expect.
We use the plants themselves as the ingredient so you can get the full power nature intended and that your body needs.
You may have just one health goal in mind, but your body needs a buffet of support (the whole toolbox) to go to work for you. Don’t limit your body’s healing talents by playing Frankenstein with bottles of vitamins and minerals. This just doesn’t make sense.
And why do the extra work when your body already knows what to do?
Our team at NuSpecies will guide you through each phase of your life with nutritional formulas that are the best at meeting the fundamental needs of your body on a daily basis. We can boost that with additional herbs and only when necessary some raw, liquid vitamins and minerals, extracted from natural sources.
We all want the best. But “the best” won’t serve you very well if it’s obtained at the expense of the basics.
Written by Jillian Pelliccio
Executive Vice President
