The Liquid Advantage

A supplement by definition is something, such as a vitamin, that completes or enhances something else, such as the diet, when added to it.

In a perfect world, diets wouldn't need any supplementation, as the diet would provide an exact balance of proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, minerals, and several other micronutrients. Due to many factors including over farming of lands, genetically modified foods, pesticides, and limited or unhealthy diets most individuals are lacking essential nutrients from their everyday diet. In the long run, these deficiencies eventually lead to chronic health problems as the systems of the body do not receive the proper nutrition to continue functioning and an optimal level.

With this in mind, almost every individual in the modern world requires some form of dietary supplementation such as omega-3 fatty acids, vitamin D, or magnesium that would require a large increase in dietary intake of fish, dark leafy greens, and drastic changes in overall lifestyle and health practices. If healthy, organic, unprocessed food was cheaper and readily available to all, such as fast food is, then there may not be such a need for supplementation as everyone would be able to eat a healthier more balanced diet with ease.

Yet the dramatic rise in chronic disease over the past few decades has been strongly linked to nutritional and dietary deficiencies that could otherwise easily be eliminated with targeted and effective supplementation. This is why supplementing is so important, as it is one of the best ways to help mitigate the development of the chronic disease that currently plagues most of the world's population.