Why Take A Multivitamin?

Since we here at Triune recently started carrying a new line of whole food-based supplements, I've been getting a lot of questions about exactly why someone would take a multivitamin in the first place.

It's a fair question. After all, shouldn't we be able to get everything we need from our diet?

The answer to that is, yes and no. First off, are you really eating that healthy of a diet? Most Americans are not. We eat a lot of packaged, processed foods which, although convenient and inexpensive, aren't very good for us. Lots of these foods have had most of the nutrients taken out of them by the refining process.

So that's the first place a multivitamin can help... by filling some gaps left by a diet that might be less than indeal. But even if you're eating the right things, you can still run into problems.

Government studies have shown a disturbing trend with fruits and vegetables; namely, that they don't have as much of the vitamins and minerals in them that they used to. This is likely due to overfarming and industrial food practices, but the end result is, you might not be getting what you think you're getting in your food... even if you do make the right choices. So there's another place a multivitamin can help fill gaps: making up for the potential lack of nutrients in supposedly healthy foods.

Finally, there just may be gaps caused by the random assortment of foods you happened to pick that day. Who's going to research and plan out every bit of food they eat every day to make sure all of the possible vitamins and minerals are covered? So there's another reason to take a multivitamin... because you just never know what you might have missed.

Essentially, multivitamins function best as insurance against potential gaps in nutrition. The good news is, they're quite inexpensive. Ask us about Catalyn, the new all-natural, whole foods-based multivitamin, and you'll be surprised at how inexpensive it is and what it has to offer!