Even eating fruits and vegetables is not enough anymore…

Our soil is running out of nutrients, and so is your food.

For decades, industrial farming has aimed to maximize profit, which means maximizing crop yields per acre, at the expense of nutrition. After all, it’s all about the money, not vitamins.⁷

The supermarket produce comes from farms that use synthetic fertilizers and high-yield breeds. As a result, they’re plumb and higher in sugar, but low in minerals and antioxidants. 

The US Department of Agriculture reports the nutrients in our garden crops have been declining between 1950 and 1999, and it’s only getting worse.⁷

Calcium, phosphorus, iron, trace minerals, magnesium, riboflavin, and vitamin C dropped by 6 - 38%!⁷

There is no such thing as “fresh” produce all year round.

1,500 miles is the average distance your produce travels to reach your local store from domestic farms.⁸

During the winter, spring, and fall, your grapes fly in from Chile, blueberries from Peru, and strawberries from Mexico. 

Over the weeks, they were kept in synthetic gas refrigerators and chemically ripened just in time for you to eat. Then, they stay on the shelves on average 3 days before you pick them up.  

This is not how your body desires the nutrients. Anyone who has eaten vine-ripen fruits and vegetables from the garden can generally taste the freshness and vitality you don’t get from store-bought produce.

The longer your produce goes between harvest and your plate, the more it could lose freshness and nutrients. 

Despite having produce available conveniently in grocery stores, ONLY 1 in 10 adults are eating the bare minimum of 2 cups of fruits and 3 of vegetables each day, according to the CDC.²

The Dirty Truth About Greens Supplements

After years of personally trying and researching the major greens supplements on the market, I learned a few inconvenient truths.

• The US supplement industry is a Wild West. Countless shoddy manufacturers are out there to make a quick buck, putting out poor quality ingredients or tainted products.
• Most greens supplements often taste disgusting, and it usually takes an awful lot of sweeteners, flavors, texturizers, and artificial ingredients to make them palatable.
• Many of them can contain food allergens or gut irritants that can cause severe reactions
• The capsulated ones may need handfuls of capsules to get enough doses, causing people to quit taking them altogether.
• Many companies have been found to add synthetic vitamins to greens supplements, which can throw off the natural nutritional balance. 

It’s no wonder so many people react badly to these supplements or never get benefits from them. 

It takes a lot of money, time, and resources to create great supplements that meet my standards, but it came to that.

Unlike whole fruits and vegetables, greens supplements generally only list milligrams and micrograms of nutrients on their labels if they add synthetic nutrients, which defeat the purpose of whole food nutrition.

The vitamins and minerals in your food work together with their cofactors, such as the phytonutrients. The presence of these together can help improve absorption and function.

Taking isolated synthetic nutrients (even in a multivitamin) can become toxic and deplete other nutrients, even in a multivitamin form.

Science has just begun to uncover these surprising dangers of excess vitamins after decades of mass fortifications. 

The results of these studies are medically accepted!

Example 1: High doses of synthetic folic acid may increase cancer risks

Six clinical trials with combined 38,233 subjects found that men who took high folic acid were 24% more likely to get to get prostate cancers than those who took placebos.⁹

Daily folic acid intake of over 400 mcg/day is associated with substantial increase in breast cancer risks.¹⁰

Example 2: Vitamin E supplementation increases prostate cancer risk

The clinical trial involved 35,000 middle-aged men who took 400 IU vitamin E or placebo daily for 5.5 years. The vitamin E group were 17% more likely to have prostate cancers than the placebo group.¹¹

Example 3: Calcium supplementation alone increases risk of heart disease

15 clinical trials with combined 11,921 patients found that calcium supplements without cofactors (such as vitamin D) raised the risk of heart attacks by 27%!¹²

To be clear, vitamins and minerals are important for your health. It’s taking too much of them in isolation for a long time that may be dangerous. 

It's somewhat well known that you won’t get the same health boosts from synthetic vitamins as you would from foods.

As a doctor, I have taken the oath to do no harm. This is why I only recommend whole foods supplements for long-term use.