I had a
friend in high school who was 10 years ahead of the rest of us
food-wise.
First, he swore
off all commercial meats and only ate free-range
organic stuff
(which was REALLY hard to find back then). Next, he started drinking
unpasteurized milk, and eventually he went vegetarian.
Like me now, he's an experimenter. Someone who realizes that what
everybody is
doing is most often NOT the best way; and with just the tiniest bit of
creativity and self-examination, you can find tools that really flip
your life
right-side up.
Maybe it's yoga, maybe it's broccoli, maybe it's walking your dog. It's
different for everyone.
Back to the story...
My food-wise friend was also into supplements at age 17. Mostly
megadoses of vitamin
C and green superfoods.
I told him, "All you’re doing is making expensive urine," because I
figured he was peeing all that stuff out an hour after he took it.
With many supplements, that is absolutely true. Iron, for example is
incredibly
difficult to supplement your diet with. The tablets just go in one end
and out
the other. Or worse, some of that synthetic stuff gets stuck in your
system (so
eat your spinach!).
But the fact remains that carefully selected, high-quality, wholefood
supplements not only absorb but have a huge impact on your health. I
know this
because I feel it.
I read this today and thought of my old friend:
"Expensive urine," writes veteran nutritional reporter Jack Challem,
“is
a bizarre argument because a $50 restaurant meal and a bottle of fine
wine also
lead to expensive urine, but no one seems to be complaining about those
things.
Numerous studies have shown, however, that vitamin supplements do
increase
people's blood levels of those nutrients."
Stay bendy,
Lucas
P.S. So
that's why I take Yogabody every day, and use Yoga Protein most days
(especially when I'm extra active and traveling). It's also why I take
B12.
YOGABODY
NATURALS
