06/06/2025
6.5.25 eNEWS | why I don't recommend single-nutrient supplements . part 1
Happy JUNE! End of this month we'll be half-way through 2025 already! Time flies!
I've had several different conversations lately, with people asking me about the value of adding in a single-nutrient supplement to their daily regimen.
For example:"I see so much info about magnesium. I'm thinking I should take a magnesium supplement to boost my mag levels. What do you recommend?".
I was asked this exact question a few times this past week.
My answer is always rooted in a conversation I'm sharing below. For old AND new subscribers, this will be of particular interest to you.
The following article is definitely worth the read, as the implications are so important to understand. This is the foundation. More about this topic in the coming weeks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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QUESTION:
I've read the facts panel of the minerals - the mg in the minerals seem really low. I think I need more magnesium because I've read about all the things it will do for us. Should I add a magnesium supplement to my daily regimen?
ANSWER:
Thank you for asking! This is an important question. There are many facets to address with your question. I’ll address each facet as succinctly as I can.
FIRST, SOME FOUNDATIONAL CONTEXT
First, for context, and to set a foundational understanding, please remember that when we’re referring to the fulvic & humic mineral complexes from Mother Earth’s Elements, we’re talking about:
Ancient rare-earth plant-sourced fulvic and humic mineral complexes – which include naturally complexed minerals and trace elements - are much more than just an exceptional source of minerals.
They're respectfully sourced from ancient rare-earth plant deposits deep within Mother Earth
Subsequently undergoing a unique proprietary extraction process – using harmonic energies and a specific pH of water - preserving the integrity, life-force and nutrients innately found in the ancient plants.
No harsh processing or chemicals are ever used in any step of the extraction. Ever.
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What also needs to be said, is that there is no addition to, or alteration of the naturally occurring, naturally balanced nutrients in the mineral complexes.
The whole-food nutrients found in Mother Earth’s Elements fulvic & humic mineral complexes are naturally occurring – as already stated – the nutrients listed on the nutritional facts panel are the bare minimum that can be exprected - identified in full spectrum mineral analysis that are run on every batch. Every. Batch.
Each batch will vary some – much like different oranges in an orange orchard will vary some in nutrients - but none of the fulvic or humic mineral complexes we’re talking about will ever fall below the nutrient facts you find on the label.
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You might say that we want to under-represent, and over-deliver on the nutrients we say are in each bottle.
IN CONTRAST
In contrast to the product scenario I just shared with you, most of the single-nutrient supplements on the market are both synthetic AND ‘fortified’ to meet specific label and nutrient specs.
Please understand, the single-nutient supplements aren't a naturally-occurring nutritional product. They're a synthetic product. Much like fortified cereals, breads, milk, etc. This particular point is crucial to understand and will be discussed further in this article.
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Not only is fortifying foods and supplements a dangerous practice – it’s also not doing consumers much good. The unnaturally-occurring nutrient boost is difficult for the body to deal with, much less to heal with. Often, the boost is just downright toxic.
In our fast-paced, more-is-better culture, people don’t realize that more is not always better.
For example, many people in our culture are now slamming down a packet or handful of vitamins every day, while subsequently eating and drinking their ‘guilty pleasures’ more often than is good for them – thinking that the vitamins and other supplements will cover the nutritional deficits.
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They won’t.
Most nutritional products in today's market have been ‘fortified’ to meet specific label and nutrient specs. In other words, to look good. Synthetically. Yet all those great-sounding nutrients are actually unusable by your body.The body can't acutally assimilate the synthetic nutrients. It's really a 'smoke and mirrors' scenario.
Just because the label reads well, doesn't mean your body will be able to actually USE the nutrients claimed on the label.
ANOTHER EXAMPLE
Adding in a magnesium supp will add a mostly-if-not-completely synthetic source of a single-nutrient you're thinking will solve a particular issue. The challenge is:
#1 -very little, if any of the magnesium will actually be able to be utilized; the sources aren't bioavailable., which is why there are so many different forms of mag in the product.
#2 - the synthetic 'schtuff' that they refer to as magnesium has now given your body something it has to DEAL with - rather than heal with. This creates a domino effect with the body having to rally, struggling to buffer the impact of all the synthetics that were ingested.
The latest trend in magnesium supplements is to blend 3-5 different types of magnesium, in an attempt to create a more bio-available supplement. That alone should tell you something about the bioavailability - or lack of - of it all.
IN THE WORLD OF SUPPLEMENTS
It’s common in today’s world of supplementation, to boost the nutrient profile of a given supplement by adding synthetic – or even concentrated, formerly naturally occurring nutrients - to boost the nutrient profile on the label. In other words, so it looks good on paper.
Yet the boosts really add nothing to the nutrients that the body is actually assimilating, because the nutrients are NOT bio-available. The nutrients aren’t actually able to be utilized by the body. The fortifying nutrients are difficult for the body to actually assimilate, if at all. So it may have looked good on paper, but in translation, isn't actually able to be assimilated for your benefit.
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So, the label for a supplement reads with an impressive list of nutrients – albeit synthetically derived or fortifyed nutrients - yet the body will struggle to get ANY value from said supplement.
It becomes something that the body has to actually work harder to process, and is, in the long run, counter-productive. Again, your body 'reads' it as a toxin. It becomes something that your body has to DEAL with, rather than something that it can use to HEAL with.
You’ll find this in vitamin and mineral supplements, in protein powders that have been ‘spiked’ with un-digestible proteins, in collagens, as well as in ‘fortified’ cereals, ‘fortified’ breads, and ‘fortified’ processed foods.
This is definitely true in the case of single-nutrient supplements
Again, the label may look impressive. A chemist may be able to identify the ‘vitamins & minerals’ in an analysis, yet the body will struggle to deal with the unnaturally occurring fortification.
Adding in all these synthetics, because we think our body will 'heal faster' or age more slowly, or whatever the perceived benefit may be, is much like trying to force a rose to bloom. It won't go well in the long-run.
YOUR BODY HAS TO DEAL WITH IT
As previously stated - what is actually occurring, is that the body is now having to DEAL WITH synthetic ‘nutrients’, which unnecessarily throw off the biochemistry of the system as it has to flush out the synthetic ‘nutrients’ - rather than being able to HEAL WITH nutrients that it resonates with and that support true nourishment and deep healing.
We’re human beings in a carbon-based body. Our body resonates best with and thrives on naturally occurring carbon-based nutrients. They’re bioavailable and easily assimilated. It takes much less of said nutrient to actually fulfill the needs of the body.
SIDE NOTE: many of the synthetic ‘fortifying’ nutrients are petrolium based, manufactured and isolated with harsh industrial chemicals and compounds - the end result that's put into a supplement or food isn't even fit for human consumption – another topic for another day.
EVER HEARD OF VITAMIN TOXICITY?
It’s a thing.
There actually is such a thing as vitamin toxicity – vitamin poisoning. It’s becoming more and more common, due to the unnatural megadoses of synthetic nutrients (I use that term very loosely here) that are being ingested by unsuspecting, unknowing consumers.
Again, taking too much of a good thing can be too much. It can be as harmful and damaging to our body as a deficiency is. It can actually cause deficiencies as other nutritional aspects within our system have to rally to help the body balance and dispose of the excess waste.
Not to mention the added strain on our liver, kidneys and other eliminative organs to get rid of the synthetic schtuff.
As I said, it becomes one more thing for our body to deal with.
Real nutrients need the right co-factors AND the right biological concentrations to truly be in service to our bodies.
ANOTHER IMPORTANT FACTOR
There’s another important factor to address. . .
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The fact is, that in many cases, mankind has yet to identify many of the naturally occurring co-factors in natural products and foods that provide easy assimilation of nutrients by our body.
It’s one reason why ANY supplements I take these days are from whole-food sources. Including fulvic & humic mineral complexes.
Again, we can make a comparison:
Compare the nutritional value of eating a fresh, organically grown orange – to taking some form of vitamin C we pick up from a store, or online because we think we need more vitamin C for whatever reason.
** No form of vitamin C will include all the naturally occurring co-factors that an orange would. In fact, some forms of vitamin C are actually very difficult for our body to utilize.
** The vitamin C content of a synthetic vitamin may look impressive on a label, yet it won’t be in the same balance and definitely won’t provide the same bioavailability as what nature provides for us in a fresh, organic orange.
** SIDE NOTE: did you know that isolated ascorbic acid, a common form of synthetic vitamin C is one of the most toxic substances that we can ingest? It's made (MADE being the operative word here) from fermented GMO corn, black mold and sulfuric acid.
Again, naturally-occurring vitamins and minerals along with all the co-factors will behave very differently in our bodies than synthetic vitamins and minerals will.
Whole-food nutrition provides a world of difference in nutrient uptake by the body and value to our health.
IN THE WORLD OF NATURE
In nature, megadoses of nutrients can only be ingested if we’re eating a whole lot of a particular food. Ingesting a whole lot of any particular food would also mean we’re ingesting all the co-factors and (as yet) unknown nutrients that support the body in assimilating all of the nourishment.
In other words, in nature, megadoses of vitamin C can only be ingested by eating a whole lot of oranges (for the sake of this example). Ingesting a whole lot of oranges would also mean we're ingesting all the co-factors and as-yet unknown nutrients that support the body in assimilating it all.
That would be VERY different than ingesting megadoses of synthetically derived and isolated vitamins & minerals.
I think you can see where I’m going with this . . .
Not all supplements are as beneficial as they’re marketed to be, or as the label reads.
ALL THAT BEING SAID
In our world today, wise supplementation is necessary to provide nutrients that our body truly needs; nutrients that were plentiful in days gone by, yet are absent from our modern-day food supply.
Did you know that in today’s world we’d need to eat 2x as much broccoli as we ate in the 1970s, to get the same level of nutrition?
Dr Mark Hyman has a lot to say about the subject. Check out his online articles and books.
BOTTOM LINE
With the current level of soil depletion due to big-ag, the amount of processed and ultra-processed franken-foods we typically eat, all of which deplete our bodies of real nutrients - then add in the less-than-ideal shipping, storage & processing of our food supply . . . it all takes its toll on the actual nutrients that are available for us at the end of the line.
Supplementation is no longer optional; it’s necessary.
WHOLE FOOD, REAL NUTRITION
Real nutrition starts with and is based on the food we eat day in and day out. Making wise choices by nourishing ourselves with real, organic, locally grown food each meal will go a long way in truly nourishing ourselves.
Then, when adding in supplemental nutrition, my best suggestion is to add in whole-food nutrition; supplements that utilize whole foods - with all the co-factors and as-yet to be identified nutrients, to create their offering.
The nutritional facts panel of the whole food supplements offered by Mother Earth's Elements fulvic & humic mineral complexes may not ‘wow’ you like synthetically fortified supplements used to (before you read this article), but they’ll provide real nutrients and nourishment, in the balance that Mother Nature created, so that your body can truly HEAL WITH them, rather than having to DEAL WITH them.
Because the fulvic and humic mineral complexes are naturally complexed and have all the naturally-occurring cofactors we know of as well as many that science has yet to identify, they're easy for your body to resonate with and assimilate.
PERSONALLY SPEAKING
I personally increase my daily 'dose' of the mineral complexes when I feel my body needs a boost of some particular nutrient. Sometimes taking a shot 4-5x daily.
I'm currently taking 2 or more shots of HUMIC Lite, in between my morning FULVIC Gold and evening HUMIC INtense. It makes much more sense to me that using a single-nutrient supplement from sketchy - or worse - synthetic sourcing.
THOUGHTS? QUESTIONS?
What questions do you have, now that I've shared these pieces to the puzzle as I see it? I'd love to hear your thoughts.
Please reach out if I can clarify anything, and to let me know YOUR thoughts. Always. Simply reply to this note, it will come directly to my Inbox.
STAY TUNED
Stay tuned, today's eNEWS established the foundation for this conversation, more in-depth info with the 'why's and 'where-for' coming to your Inbox.
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Our bodies are made of minerals. Literally. Mineral co-factors facilitate most every function of the body. Vitamins definitely play their part, of course, but it's the minerals that liberate vitamins to do their work.
Lacking vitamins, our system can make use of the minerals, but lacking minerals, the vitamins are useless, according to Charles Northern, MD., one of the earliest nutritional physicians in the US. . . . . . . . . . . .
Wayne Cook, mineral researcher from CA, says:
"Vitamins are found in greatest quantities where the greatest quantities of minerals occur.
It is impossible to find a plant that carries a full vitamin content unless minerals in large amounts are also present.
Nature brings minerals into the leaf veins before she can begin to manufacture vitamins." . . . . . . . . . . . .
QUOTE SOURCE
Minerals, What Your Body Really Needs & Why
George L Redmon, PhD, ND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The most valuable ways we can support our health is with foundational self-care:
eating clean, whole, organic foods
eliminating the 'depleters' you've read about in past eNEWS
morning sunlight & grounding
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supplementating with plant-sourced, rare-earth, whole-food fulvic and humic mineral complexes
Support your body, mind and spirit with fulvic & humic mineral supplementation. For more info, click on this image or any of the images in this eNEWS to learn more.
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Many blessings,
Lorene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
providing deep rare-earth nourishment,
absent from our modern day food supply -
for radiant health, vibrant energy & clear-headed living . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
