Are Your Supplements Good For You? How Do You Know What You Need?

Have you ever gone into the grocery store, health food store, or drug store looking for vitamins or supplements and noticed that there are rows and rows of supplements? Most patients that answer this question tell me that when they get to the supplement isle they feel overwhelmed, confused, and/or frustrated. So what do they do? They either pick one from the shelf that catches their eye with fancy labeling or with a good tag line or they walk away with nothing. What is the best choice in this circumstance? The best option is probably to walk away and do some research but you could get lucky and get a good supplement.

Are you content with simply hoping that your vitamin, mineral, and/or supplements are good and working or would you rather know exactly what your body needs and is able to use? Of course most patients say that they would like to know that what they're buying is not a waste of money but is doing exactly what they need when they need it. The problem they face is that they don't know how to know exactly what they need and what product will work for them.

So how do you know exactly what your body needs and what supplements your body can absorb and use? The best way to find out is by visiting a Nutritional Response Testing Practitioner who can test your body for common stressors such as bacteria, viruses, fungus, parasites, heavy chemicals, heavy metals, food allergens, and more. After these stressors are located and treated with whole food replacement parts and/or supplements the entire body is evaluated for weakness and is then given a specific nutritional protocol individually created for YOU using muscle testing.

If you do not have a nutrition response testing practitioner in your area there may be a similar technique available in your area that can test specific supplements for you.

If you are not interested in visiting a practitioner to find your individual needs and create a personalized plan but would like to know the best vitamins and/or supplements I can tell you that the most important thing to look for is a whole food base, which means that none of the products in the bottle are made from synthetic materials. Synthetic vitamins, minerals and supplements are not nutrition and can never fully absorb or be used by your body. A synthetic product can contain %1000 of the daily dose and you could get %0 into your system for use. A whole food vitamin, mineral, and supplement is readily absorbably because it is nutrition and what your body recognizes as food.

If you would like to use a pharmaceutical grade, whole food product and have it customized for you, you can call our office and participate in a symptom survey that will allow us to customize your nutritional protocol including the products needed that can be sent directly to your home at an affordable rate that does not include an office visit. This guarantees that you will not be wasting your money on worthless supplements and vitamins but doesn't require costly doctors visits. Our goal is to help you create wellness in your life!

A pharmaceutical grade product on the market is Standard Process. These products are whole food based and potent enough to only be sold through health practitioners. If you create an individualized nutritional plan with Dr. Ashley Waggoner, D.C. the products used will include Standard Process products. The results we've seen when we use the specific nutrition needed have been documentable.

If you have any questions or would like to start your nutritional plan today call Ashley Chiropractic at Integrated Family Health 480-259-0064. If you reach the voice mail leave your name and number and let us know if you would like to schedule an appointment for nutrition response testing or if you would like to have a phone appointment in order to create a custom nutritional plan. We will return your call in a timely manner.

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