POWER LAW #3 (PART 3)

Supplements… filling the gaps wisely.

Supplements can be helpful, but they work best as a complement to healthy habits, not a substitute for them. A nutrient-rich diet, regular exercise, quality sleep, stress management, and hydration should always come first. Choose supplements thoughtfully, focus on quality, and remember, supplements are exactly what their name implies… a supplement to a healthy lifestyle.

When it comes to supplements, I loosely divide them into two (2) classes… 1) health and 2) medicinal. For health, I always recommend a whole-food multiple, and the best I have found is Catalyn by Standard Process (my daughter started taking Catalyn at 2 years of age).

Catalyn is a whole food-base multiple supplement designed to provide a broad spectrum of vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients from food concentrates.

People tend to “bounce around” when it comes to supplements, trying this one and then that one. It is best to work on having a good diet and adding a whole-food multiple… period.

When it comes to “medicinal,” there are two (2) options. You can be tested with a technique called NRT (Nutritional Response Technique) which is a neurological/muscle test, that I do regularly in the office, to determine what deficiencies the body systems may be experiencing. The other option is a blood test to determine what the body may need to help it along.

I am not particularly endorsing any particular blood testing facilities, but a few are Rythm blood test (rythmhealth.com), SiPhox blood test (siphoxhealth.com), and The Ultimate Human blood test (theultimatehuman.com). The first two (2) are relatively inexpensive, while the third (3rd) is quite expensive, running into the hundreds of dollars (over a thousand dollars in some cases), but is much more comprehensive.

In summary, it is best not to jump around with supplements… especially if you expect any meaninful results. Focus on diet, take a whole-food multiple and THEN, and only then, intelligently expand utilizing more than a guess. Either utilize Nutritional Response Testing or utilize a blood test, which needs to include recommendations based on the results.