Taking vitamin and mineral supplements is generally considered to be a “healthy” addition to our diet. However, in past centuries, people were able to stay healthy without supplements because they generally ate a healthier diet than we do today and their traditional wisdom told them to eat superfoods naturally rich in essential vitamins and minerals required for health. They were, therefore, less prone to the degenerative diseases of today (for example, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis and cancer) without taking natural or "holistic" supplements. In the past, foods were grown on small farms in mineral-rich soils. Today, foods are grown in mineral-deficient soils on “factory farms” where the main goal is to produce high quantity rather than high quality food. In addition to this, with the advent of our fast paced lifestyle, fast-food diet and highly processed foods prevalent today, we no longer get the basic nutrition needed to stay well. Modern technology has improved so much that we can now isolate the vitamins and minerals our modern day diet is missing that are required for health. But is this sufficient to promote optimum health and is this an improvement on what our ancestors ate?

Taking supplements is like sitting in the audience of a concert and trying to direct how to make the orchestra sound better. One could test (doctor) the trumpet players and decide they were not good enough and hire more talented musicians. One could conclude (chiropractor or other healthcare provider) the woodwind section needs help and bring in a better first clarinet player. Or one could guess (patient) the percussion section was not even needed for this piece of music and disband them altogether. But all of these choices are being made outside of the orchestra based on external criteria which may or may not be valid. It would be much better to get the conductor to decide how to make the orchestra play and sound better. The conductor is an integral part of the orchestra, they would know all the strengths and weaknesses of each player, they would know how to nurture each musician to extract their maximum talents and abilities. Instead of asking a doctor, chiropractor, other healthcare professional and even yourself what the body needs, why not provide all the super nutrition the body needs and let the brain (conductor) decide how much it needs and where to direct the super nutrition to where it is needed the most? Rather than direct an external fix from outside the body, why not activate the natural ability of the body to heal itself? We just need to provide the fuel (vitamins, minerals, enzymes, Omega oils), tools (antioxidants and super nutrition for the brain) and then energize, awaken and balance the glands in the brain (conductor) to do the healing.