Is supplement our friend or foe?

Supplements are so common now a days that we find a lot of people consume supplements daily. And the types of supplements usually we can find from the stores included antioxidant, single nutrient supplements, vitamins etc. But do all these supplements provide benefits to our body? Or will it bring harm to us?

This article from the link below was published few months ago, with the finding of high doses of artificial antioxidant being able to increase genetic abnormalities in cell that brings to cancer development.

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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100504173821.htm

Does that mean that we should not take supplements at all? Actually, supplements are encouraged by many parties in view of the highly polluted environment that we are staying in, in addition to the nutrient-poor + chemical-rich foods that we are ingesting in the modern world.

However, we should educate ourselves with the correct knowledge in choosing those supplements that works best with the nature of our body. Whole food, natural source type of supplement should be chosen, instead of artificial or extracted type of supplements.

Why choose natural whole food supplements? Simply due to our body recognizes only natural whole food and regards everything else as foreigners. When body recognizes the food, it will be able to tell the relevant system to produce the right enzymes and co-enzymes for the digestion and assimilation. If we ingest the artificially produced type of 'food', our body will regard it as foreign particle and will trigger the defense system of our body to be on guard and ready to get rid of it. In other words, the artificial supplement will trigger such stressful response instead of bringing us the benefits that we expect when we consume it. When its quantity is over the threshold of our body to handle it or when our body is too stressful after long time of handling it, it causes all sort of dis-ease and problem.

Usually we choose the natural whole food supplements that are categorized as superfoods, or foods that are densely packed with nutrients, antioxidant and phytochemicals, such as spirulina, chia seeds, maca powder, berries, chlorella, fruits/fruits powder, wheatgrass juice/powder, alfafa greens, cruciferous greens and etc. Let foods become not only our fuel and eating pleasure, but also our natural medicine. The nature has it all.

When we befriended nature, natural whole food supplements become our greatest friends!