Dietary Supplement Handbook: Part 7 - Dietary Supplement Education

Dietary supplements contain nutrition that is vital to health. 

Supplements are added to the diet to maintain, support, build and promote health and wellness, benefit well-being and enhance performance as a part of a successful lifestyle.

Supplements add to a healthy state which is optimal well-being, which is related to their overall vitality and ability to perform in many ways.

Vitality is the capacity for fitness and performance, to grow, live and develop and achieve greater wellness and success.

A healthy responsible lifestyle includes diet, exercise and customary practices concerning body, mind and spirit, such as work, play, fitness, meditation, and education.

It is known that modern foods and diets are depleted in nutrients, so a great way to boost nutritive density is by taking supplements with meals as part of a complete diet.

This is why we take supplements; to acquire higher concentrations of nutrients and to have the vitality to make life better, be more successful and achieve greater fitness!

Supplements come in many forms, but the best forms are whole concentrates of foods, superfoods, tonics, herbs, adaptogens and botanicals, because they contain a wide-range of nutrients and some contain unique constituents.

Supplements are usually high in forms of a variety of nutrition, which effects the body, it's tissues, organs and glands in the support of health, wellness, and performance.

These forms of nutrition include:

• Peptides, Lipids, Starches
• Vitamins and Minerals
• Unique Constituents

Many of these forms of nutrients are essential, such as vitamins and minerals, to the functioning of the body and are often best consumed daily. Other nutrients such as the peptides, lipids and starches have particular and specific effects on body functioning.

Unique constituents have special effects on the organs, glands and tissues and are found only in specific medicinal herbs, superfoods, and tonics, such as saponins known as ginsenosides, which are only found in ginseng roots. Another example are unique starches such as polysaccharides found in medicinal mushrooms and astragalus root.

Superfoods and tonics may be adventurous because we can experience the health building effects of their unique constituents.

One’s health, wellness and fitness is very important, so selecting the right supplement is a personal responsibility.

Not everyone eats the same diet and has the same fitness routine, so everyone doesn't require the same kind of supplements.

A person is free to choose what supplements support wellness and performance, which is why discernment in is required for developing a healthy lifestyle.

Remember, health and fitness is a personal responsibility; choose what is important based on one's own guidance.

Supplements work by their structure of nutrition and the function of this nutrition concerning the body. Unique constituents are known to have effects on the various organs, glands, and tissues of the body.

However, avoid the pitfalls of research; health is complex and health information shouldn't be taken out of context.

Nothing is a quick fix.

A quick answer will come up short on results, so spend the time and effort to develop holistic understanding, that means a comprehensive overview of health and fitness and all its parts as it pertains to wellness and successful living.

Find out what works best for oneself.

Just because something doesn't make sense doesn't mean it doesn't work; so dissolving limiting beliefs, conducting more research and having an open-mind may be required for further understanding. The combination of nutrients from various sources may yield better results.

Apply logic or good judgement to conducting research.

Avoid attempting to disprove any research; instead one can prove that they may have been unable to get it to work. Work with all the research available and make better informed decisions.

Explore the various ways to support and maintain a successful and healthful fit life.

Taking charge of your health and fitness while doing it yourself does not mean without professional guidance.

Because health is vitally important, advise with professionals, family and friends they trust who are able to develop relationships that will develop a healthy lifestyle. Perhaps set a goal of speaking or studying one new professional every three months to broaden the scope of personal knowledge, or when receiving guidance choose 2-3 professional sources with whom to consult.

The daily journey of successful living necessitates learning from professionals about how health and fitness works. Keep in mind that a lack of personal knowledge and individual action may be the biggest contributor to the suffering of progress.

Self-education is very important to personal health, wellness, and performance.

Knowing how the human body works is a day-to-day lifelong journey. The more one invests in personal education of health and wellness, the more rewards one may see in their everyday lives.

Due to the complexity of health and fitness some references may necessitate professional guidance; seek discussion with professionals concerning personal understanding of information.

All referenced sources are for informational purposes only. The information on this website is not intended as medical advice and does not replace a relationship with a one-on-one healthcare practitioner or qualified professional.

Resources for supplements:

There are many parts to health and fitness.

We don't live in a bubble so we don't do one thing for our health, wellness and performance. All of this is not singular; in other words, we don't live in an isolated box with only a few variables to study what's going on with these factors.

Wellness and performance is organically developed holistically as an interplay of various nutrients, each with their own effects on biochemical interactions within the body. Supplements work best taken as a whole together with food and matched to daily activities.

The more one pays close attention to wellness and performance from a holistic perspective, the more one has available for accomplishing something healthy.

Stay open-minded and feel free to explore new things.