Simply put, our food doesn’t have the nutrition we need to stay healthy!
It sounds like an outrageous claim, but the truth is common farming practices are creating nutrient-poor crops. Even organic crops are affected!
Does that mean we need supplements?
Yes, it’s now essential to take a high-quality multivitamin to thrive. Unfortunately, the best whole-food fruit and vegetable supplements won’t cut it, because they’re made from the same nutrient-poor crops we eat.
Pesticides have serious consequences.
Without a doubt, you’ve heard the complaints about pesticides on our produce and the dangers they pose to our health. Glyphosate and AMPA are two of the most common. But what we don’t hear about is the damage they do to our soil.
To be certified organic, crops must meet certain growing conditions and most people think this means farmers can’t use pesticides. Sadly, this isn’t true. The natural pesticides used in organic farming are often weaker than those used on conventional crops, so farmers just use more of them since the amounts aren’t regulated.
To really understand how pesticides lead to nutrient-poor crops, we need to look at how plants grow.
Healthy soil produces healthy plants.
Our soil is more than just dirt. There’s a complex ecosystem under our feet that gives life to plants. This ecosystem has many important parts, but for the purposes of this article, we are primarily concerned with the minerals, bacteria, fungi, and plant matter.
In nature, when leaves fall from a tree or a plant falls over and dies, fungi and bacteria move in and begin breaking it down. During this process, plant minerals released into the soil mix with natural acids made by bacteria to create humic substances. One of the most important parts of humic substances is fulvic acid. Fulvic acid binds with minerals and turns them into organic mineral ions.
Fulvic acid supports the next generation of plants by easily delivering an abundance of ionic minerals to plant cells. Alas, without fulvic acid, these minerals stay in an unusable “inorganic” form. Plants, just like humans and animals, need ionic minerals to make vitamins and complete other biological processes.
Pesticides destroy soil ecosystems & rob plants of nutrients.
The pesticides we spray on our crops seep into soil and harm the beneficial microorganisms that create humic substances. The higher the potency or quantity of these pesticides, the more damage they do. Weakened bacterial colonies simply cannot produce enough fulvic acid to sustain the nutritional value of our crops.
In fact, the USDA has been keeping records of the nutritional content of our crops for nearly a century. Sadly, this data reveals a troublesome trend that’s only getting worse. So, it’s no wonder that we can eat organic whole foods and still end up being malnourished.
High-Quality Multivitamin supplements are now essential.
Simple powdered fruit and vegetable supplements sound great, but they won’t fix the problem when they’re made from nutrient-poor crops. Only a high-quality, multivitamin supplement can fill the nutritional gaps in our diets. Additionally, if you choose one that also provides fulvic acid, you can supercharge your cells with nutrition like never before!
Did you know Mother Earth Labs’ Essential MultiVitamins delivers effective vitamins, organic whole foods, and fulvic acid with each serving?
