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Supplementing for health

Nutritional supplements are an important part of a holistic practitioner’s toolkit. In today’s hectic world, they allow us to provide the body with doses of nutrients and antioxidants much more concentrated than can be found in food.

In an ideal world, we’d be eating high-quality, nutrientdense food that would provide us with everything we need. Unfortunately, that’s not usually the case due to several factors:

• We’re getting fewer nutrients from our food due to not eating particularly high-quality/healthy food.• We’re alsogetting fewer nutrients from our food because even if we do eat a good diet and plenty of ‘healthy’ food, it usually contains fewer nutrients than it used to, due to nutrient deficient soils, food storage, and other factors.• We

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