Dr. Mark's Minute - Why We All Need Nutritional Supplements

I've spoken about a new kind of gene therapy, which is using food to control your genes, but you also need a whole bunch of other things that help control your genes, which are in food, but you might need extra because of all the stresses. And these are vitamins and minerals, and they have to be corrected in order to fix your metabolism. and there are a lot of deficiencies people have that affect diabetes like chromium, like magnesium, biotin, vitamin D, zinc, lipoic acid and omega-3 fats. We need these additional nutrients because our soils, our farming techniques, our food processing and our food distribution systems result in nutrient depleted foods. Sir Albert Howard, who was the father of the organic agriculture movement, said in his book which was called Soil and Health, he said, We must treat the whole problem of health in soil, plant, animal, and man as one great subject. Never was a truer word spoken. Even with a perfect diet, the combination of our depleted soils, the storage and transportation of our food across countries and, you know, around the world, the genetic alterations of traditional heirloom species, and the increased stress and nutritional demands resulting from a toxic environment make it almost impossible for us to get the vitamins and minerals we need just from the foods we eat. The evidence shows that we can't get away from the need for nutritional supplements. So make sure you're taking a good multivitamin, fish oil, and vitamin D every day.