Minerals you need every day

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Minerals You Need Every Day

• There are certain minerals you need every day essential to your optimal health.

As you age, getting the right amount of essential minerals becomes more and more important in handling life's increasing demands essential minerals such as:

* Calcium - to help promote your bone density and skeletal system

* Magnesium - to support your lungs and pulmonary system

* Potassium - to help regulate your circulatory system and promote your heart health

The best way for you to obtain these and other minerals is by eating wholesome unprocessed foods in your daily diet. If you eat processed foods, you risk losing valuable amounts of these essential minerals before the food ever reaches your table.

For the longest time, I firmly believed that it was ideal to receive all your nutrition from whole, unprocessed organic foods.

I still maintain that philosophy, but have come to realize over time that a high-quality multivitamin could be a valuable complement to your diet, especially when the situations in your life make it challenging to eat consistently healthy meals.

But the key words here are: high-quality multivitamin

If you believe that you can receive some sort of nutrient insurance from cheap, synthetic multivitamins, you are seriously mistaken.

When it comes to synthetic multivitamins, boatloads of research exist - research that details how your body can only absorb a small percentage of the nutrients (and potentially use even less). It's very clear that your body will absorb greater amounts of nutrients if the multivitamin comes in a non-synthetic natural whole food form.

What I came to appreciate over the years, both through valued patients treated in my clinic and dedicated newsletter subscribers, is that most people want the insurance of a multivitamin - to make sure they have all their bases covered...