Why You Should Be Taking Personalized Vitamins For Better Health

The world is changing

Doctors used to tell you that you could get all the vitamins and minerals you need from the foods you eat. They said that if you took supplements, the extra nutrients would be excreted or worse, would become toxic in the body.

This is changing, fast.

There is an emerging body of scientific evidence which shows the importance of nutrients as essential parts of our biochemistry and metabolism, enabling the activation of metabolic processes in the body, and that we are not putting them all back as fast as they are being used.

Vitamins power the cells in your body

Vitamins power your cells, but only when activated by combining them with other essential nutrients. The more energy you use, the more vitamins and minerals you need. They also activate the most critical enzyme reactions in the body. Without this activity, life would cease to exist. They ensure the proper functioning of digestion, hormones, acid/alkaline balance, nerve conduction, muscle activity, detoxification, and cell synthesis & repair.

Even with "no" stress and a "perfect" diet, many things make it impossible for us to get the vitamins and minerals we need solely from the foods we eat.  The fact is, if you aren't getting them from your food, or if there are too many factors vying for their use, you're going to run short.

What creates nutritional gaps

Holes in our nutritional make-up appear when there are nutritional deficiencies or imbalances. This happens when we are not consuming enough nutrients or when external factors are using it up at a rate that exceeds intake. Both scenarios result in depletion.

There are many factors in today's world that strain our nutrient reserves:

• Stress: even good stress like exercise, puts strains on mineral and nutrient reserves.

• Synthetic fertilizers: deplete soil of key minerals, so any plants (or animals) raised on that soil is missing most vitamins and minerals. This can make the foods you eat incomplete, robbing you of nutritional support.

• Toxins: deplete your body of vital vitamins and minerals required for detoxification and tissue repair. Toxic metals and chemicals are found in food, water, air and in everyday products like cosmetics and household cleaners.

• Dietary choices: improper supplementation and other substances like alcohol, pharmaceuticals, and other drugs strain and disrupt nutrient balance.

What happens when you restore nutrient balance

When you restore balance, you restore health.  The "perfect" diet varies from person to person.  Because each person's biochemistry is different, driven by a unique combination of the factors described above, each person requires a different combination of nutrients to bring their body back into optimum balance.

At Paragon we use testing and analysis to determine what works for each person. First developed for doctors, patients and pro-athletes, our comprehensive online analysis is combined with gold standard in metabolic testing to cross-reference 350+ biomarkers. It has been proven in use for over 15 years and generates highly-effective targeted personalized vitamin programs.  

By getting the nutrients you need, you create the proper conditions for your cells to get exactly what they need to create energy in your body. If your system is balanced and fuelled with the right nutrients, it will fuel, detoxify and repair itself the way nature intended it to.