Healthy Cells Blog

Ignore Supplement Facts

Personally, I’ve always ignored supplement facts listed on packaged food products because they tend to ignore the fact that there are healthy fats and unhealthy fats, healthy sugars and unhealthy sugars, healthy proteins and unhealthy proteins, healthy carbs and unhealthy carbs, healthy types of cholesterol and unhealthy types of cholesterol, healthy vitamins (natural) and unhealthy vitamins (synthetic), and so on. These “facts” then, are therefore rendered almost completely irrelevant.

When a product says it contains a certain percentage of your required daily intake of a particular nutrient, that percentage doesn’t take into consideration a person’s individual body size or weight, a person’s unique genetic metabolic profile and nutritional needs, or a person’s current state of health.

Everybody has different eating habits and eats different foods, so everybody will have different nutritional deficiencies and requirements. Those percentage numbers are very loose estimates, and will only properly apply to a very small amount of people (if anybody at all).

If we just read ingredient listings instead, and eat the products with all natural ingredients (excluding soy!), your cells will be extremely grateful. This whole nutritional guideline thing has gotten way out of hand and is far more complicated than it needs to be. All we have to do is eat natural foods that grew in nature, and the vast majority of our health problems will disappear. If you see weird, complicated, big words listed on your packaged food products, it’s a fairly safe bet that it’s nowhere near natural, and that your cells don’t want it.

Why does a natural diet work? From an evolutionary scientific point of view, humans and their environment (foods) evolved together, as one. They are precicely compatible with each other because they don’t exist separate from each other. It’s basically a symbiotic relationship where they benefit from each other. One’s “waste” is even the other’s food, and vice versa (oxygen & carbon dioxide). As soon as we throw some foreign substance into our body, we’re creating problems for our cells, and this cellular stress equates to “dis-ease” because they are no longer at ease.