Why take nutrients

To put it bluntly, nutrients are "tools to fill gaps" in your daily diet. They are neither health magic pills that everyone must take, nor are they an IQ tax that relies entirely on marketing. Whether you should eat them or not, and what you should eat, all depends on how big the gap is in your daily diet.

Think about it, how many young people now eat takeout every day, only a few slices of fried vegetables are wrapped in thick oil, their staple food is all polished rice and white noodles, they can’t eat deep-sea fish once a week, and they can’t even get enough sun for half an hour during the working day. Lack of B complex, vitamin D, and dietary fiber is the norm. I worked with an operator before The little girl had recurring oral ulcers for two months in a row, and no medicine worked. She went to the nutrition department for a check-up and found out that her daily intake of whole grains was too little and she was deficient in B-complex. After she came back and took a complex B-complex for a week, she was completely fine. In this situation, where there is clearly a gap in intake, supplementing some nutrients will give results much faster than trying to adjust your diet, and it is also cost-effective.

But don’t think that this thing is a must-have for everyone. There are many voices in the nutrition field calling on everyone not to take supplements indiscriminately. This is really true. If you can scrape together one pound of vegetables and half a pound of fruits every meal, eat a combination of coarse and fine grains, eat deep-sea fish two or three times a week, eat enough eggs, milk, and meat, and have time for outdoor activities every day, then there is absolutely no need to eat extra nutrients, and the body will not need them. , but it may add to the burden - after all, fat-soluble vitamins like A and D will accumulate in the liver, and excessive supplementation will be really toxic. I have also read the news before that some people ate too much vitamin C every day to look beautiful, and ended up with kidney stones.

I usually work out and gain muscle, and I need to consume more than 120g of protein every day. If I relied entirely on chicken breasts, eggs, and milk, I would have to eat seven or eight meals a day, which might not be enough even if my cheeks are sore. So just two spoons of whey protein every day is much more convenient, and the cost is even lower. My mother's bone density dropped rapidly after menopause, and she was lactose intolerant and couldn't drink milk. The doctor asked her to eat some calcium and D every day. In the past two years, her bone density has been within the normal range for her age during physical examinations, and her old problem of leg pain has disappeared.

In fact, if you put it through, it's like if you have a small hole in your clothes, you can patch it up with a few stitches and you can wear it again. If the clothes themselves are intact, it will be cumbersome to sew on the patch. The essence of taking nutrients is to help you fill in the gaps in your diet that are never enough. It is never a panacea that replaces a normal diet.