What are supplements, nutrients, and minerals?

Have you ever heard the phrase, “You are what you eat?” Well, it’s true, right down to our DNA. What we eat directly influences how our DNA is made, stored, and turned in to proteins.

Think of the body as a giant network of chemical equations that function as a whole. If a chemical equation is not balanced, the proper reactions will not happen.

The body uses nutrients from the food we eat to carry out chemical reactions that are necessary to make the body work properly. If you are not eating the correct ratios of nutrients, your body is not able to carry out the chemical reactions and processes needed to be healthy.

Many people ask - why take supplements? There are numerous supplements on the market, but every supplement contains specific vitamins, minerals, or nutrients that will help support certain chemical processes in the body. Different people will need different supplements based on their individual needs. Every person’s body is like a different chemical equation because we all have unique body chemistry different from others. This is why one medication might work well for someone but not so well for another person of the same age and gender.

Although all humans have roughly the same set of genes and our bodies carry out roughly the same processes, we each have unique chemical composition based on the environmental factors we have been exposed to. Our individual needs are based on our unique genetic factors, and is also the result of the nutrients we have been giving our bodies over time. We each have different microbiomes. We each have different