Vitamin and Mineral Delivery: Are You Absorbing What You Need?

We all know that we need to take our vitamins. Our parents told us so when we were kids and so do doctors. In fact, since 2002, we have been told that even if we eat our daily servings of vegetables and fruits, we STILL MAY NOT be getting the proper nutrition we need. Most people see this as an excellent reason to get a daily supplement incorporated in their diet, and this is certainly a good way to combat any nutrient deficiency people may have due to the deficiency in the soils we use to grow our food.

With that being said, what method should we use to take the supplements we know we need? Plenty of people take a one a day supplement, but the truth is that vitamins only last in your system for a maximum of 12 hours, so even if you doubled the dosage, it would still pass through your system in 12 hours. Some claim the sublingual vitamins and other extracts work more effectively because they are 98% absorbed into the blood stream this way. The truth is that most vitamins are 98% absorbed, regardless of how you administer them. The question that you should be asking is whether or not it is worth it to pay exorbitant prices for a product that you will absorb the same regardless of how you administer it. Minerals are a much more tricky subject however.

It is impossible for a person to take calcium out of the ground and smash it into a small concentrate and expect the body to be able to absorb the substance. Our stomach is strong enough to dissolve minerals, but they will quickly solidify in your intestines where the majority of mineral absorption will take place. So why are we able to get those minerals when we eat certain plants/vegetables? We can process minerals inside plants because they have already done the work of converting minerals into an absorbable substance. This is also why we get minerals from animals, but think of that at as second-hand minerals. It is better to go straight to the source, and since the source is completely depleted, you will need to have a supplement that can take it’s place and actually give you BOTH the VITAMINS and the MINERALS that you need to be healthy! One amazing brand that does this is Oligo as it has the highest absorption of minerals of any supplement IN THE WORLD! That is according to both the Sterling Study and the Freiburg Study which are both independent studies!

Soil Mineral Depletion and What it Means for Your Family

Did you know that the American Journal of Medicine came out with an article 12 years ago saying that we need to all be supplementing in order to achieve proper nutrition and absorb minerals because our soils are completely depleted.

Dr, Mertz from the U.S. department of Agriculture already knew what was coming 35 years ago. He said that in the future “We will not be able to rely anymore on our premise that the consumption of a varied balanced diet will provide all the essential trace elements, because such a diet will be very difficult to obtain for millions of people.” Now he said this all the way back in 1977. That future that Dr. Mertz warned us of is already here, that future is now.

The Earth is the ultimate source of vitamins and minerals. The main object of all living creatures is to sustain their existence. Life is solely dependent on 2 sources: the power of the sun and the elements of the earth, Without either, life is simply not possible, but combined? An entire ecosphere of intricate life-forms blossoms and flourishes across the vast surface of the earth and deep within her oceans. Each species plays a role in perpetuating the next, resulting in a massive ecosystem of interdependent life. The result is a giant, complex chain of nutrition that can all be linked back to the sun and the earth.

We are all at the mercy of the foods we eat, the beverages we drink, and the supplements we take to live from one day to the next. Vitamins and minerals are essential to continued life.

There are three potential solutions:

  1. Remineralize farmlands.
  2. Eat locally grown produce from organic farms.
  3. Provide the body with minerals and nutrients directly through supplementation.

If the food chain can no longer be relied on to provide the nutrients required for a healthy, vital life, providing the body with these nutrients directly is the ONLY other option! The challenge is identifying a supplement that not only delivers the full menu of required nutrients, but a supplement capable of delivering minerals- the most difficult of all nutrients to absorb- in a form that is just like nature.

Oligo™ is the only mineral-delivery technology formulated just like nature. Proven by science to provide superior mineral absorption and maximum antioxidant protection. They can also claim that they are the most absorbable on the planet, which is why we use them as our supplements of choice.  Oligo™ was developed from the ground up to address the two critical flaws in mineral supplementation- absorption and excess free radical creation- to help ensure you get more of what you take a multivitamin-mineral for.