Do Wellness Products Work?

Wellness products work under 3 main conditions, you are replacing elements for a deficiency your body has (typically causing a dysfunction), the elements you provide are in a form your body recognizes, and you provide sufficient quantity for a long enough time period. Understanding that Wellness products should be about providing your body with elements it is designed to get from your daily food intake is crucial.

Food choices have definitely changed over the years, especially in recent decades as manufactures have discovered creative ways of extending the shelf life of products and modifying the ingredients based on what recipe sells the most. We know many nutritional elements are destroyed through processing, and fortifying or enriching the recipe with synthetic single elements does not return the nutritional value of the original ingredients and that can cause deficiencies in our diet if consumed frequently. Many nutritional products are promoted as an alternative to medical therapies, or a cure for this disease or that health problem, and that simply is not the case. Wellness is about providing what is needed to function normally which feels good. Medical therapies are generally about blocking or controlling a function when the body can not return to normal function through its own mechanisms. They utilize chemistries not created in the body to minimize risk from a harmful health condition which is not necessarily designed to make you feel good.

The human body is an incredible organic machine composed of many, many elements, is composed of a series of systems all designed to work together and capable of maintaining itself. With the exception of plants, most living organisms are designed to consume other living organisms to obtain elements for energy and regeneration. This is a rampant issue for vitamin/mineral supplements, with the exception of a few manufacturers, if the label lists a percentage (%) for an element, and/or does not list the source, it is not from a living organism which means those elements are synthetics. The supplement may include quality ingredients, but the synthetics are not what the body is designed to utilize.

When the body has access in sufficient quantity to all the deficient elements, in a form it can use, it begins the process of returning to normal function which seems the same as medical therapy is designed to accomplish. To that end, wellness products do work, the trick is to discover the right quantities, of the right elements, your body needs to achieve optimal results.