The Truth About Dangers Associated With Supplements

There are some things which you should know about vitamins and minerals. There are also some things which you should forget. It’s never quite as simple as taking supplements to make your life better. You’ve got to learn to appreciate the importance and the power of a balanced diet. You can get everything you need nutritionally from eating right. If you couldn’t, if getting the correct balance of vitamins and minerals was that hard then we’d have died out millennia ago. Today there’s more variety of food directly available than ever before. You can eat fruits from anywhere in the world, sample meats which would once have been seen as exotic and devour things which have probably travelled further in their short lives than you ever will. If anything, our diets have become broader so getting everything you need should have become easier and not harder.

Enter the supplement and its singular goal of making us feel like whatever we eat, it’ll never be quite good enough. Vitamins and minerals are very important, they help fight disease and keep our bodies in tip top shape. Supplements imply that they’re the only way for us to get everything we need to survive and this simply isn’t the case. As time progresses more and more evidence is being brought forward which suggests that certain supplements may actually do more harm than good. Overdosing on minerals can have complex complications, some of which can take decades to be fully realised. Others are much more immediate. Some supplements have strange and exotic ingredients like rare flowers, deep sea algae or strange extracts. The fact is that we don’t know much about these obscure things and some have proven dangerous as we’ve learnt more. A certain kind of supplement which is popular in Germany is made out of an algae. It’s now become apparent that that algae can be toxic!

Try and get all you can from your diet and only use supplements if advised to!