Advanced Silver Solution

The question of whether one should take vitamin & mineral supplements is an old debate, with many arguing that we all need a bit extra in this day and age whilst others argue that a good well balanced diet is enough.

But how many of us, even if we have good intentions, actually do have a well balanced diet all the time.  How many of us will grab a quick and easy snack when we are busy, or have to attend a meeting or run round after the kids.  Most of us take short cuts with out diet because of our commitments and if we are honest, not many of stick to complete balanced diet all of the time.

There are far more toxins in our diet and environment than ever before and having a good supply of vitamins and minerals which help us to detox is probably more important now than ever before as our bodies struggle under the greater toxic load. 

Even if you do have a balanced diet, it is still likely to be mineral deficient in some areas due to the intensive farming methods used today.  Back in medieval times, they used to rotate the crops that they grew as they realised that growing the same crop in the same soil year after year would depreciate the amount of minerals in the soil.  As different crops take out different minerals, rotating crops would give the mineral content in soil chance to recover, by planting a different crop that took out something else instead.

Do we use this wisdom today?  Do we heck.  We grow the same crop in the same piece of soil, decade after decade.  We do however try to fertilise using chemical products that add toxins into our diet.  This problem is especially bad in densely populated countries like the United Kingdom where there is a lot of people to feed and not so much farmland to do it with.  So in fairness to our agriculture, we don’t really have the luxury of being able to rotate crops like our ancestors did.  The situation is exacerbated in the UK be experiences in the Second World War, when German U-Boats tried to starve us out by attacking our supply lines from the USA and the Empire.  This has left the UK with the philosophy of maximising yield from every acre of land (to reduce risk of starvation if cut off).  This is definitely quantity over quality and I doubt that the UK is alone in this.  Why?  Because it is also good business sense, to maximise your yield, and whose going to know that it is mineral deficient compared to what it should be.

The best crops are found at the foot of glaciers, where the ice melts each year bringing down floods and silt which fertilises the farmland at the foot of the mountains.  Crops grown in these areas absorb natural minerals that are deposited each year and the people there live longer healthy lives than those of us in the West.

The argument has been put forward that if people take supplements, then they probably won’t bother about a having a well balanced diet.  I don’t believe this to be the case, because people that go to bother of seeking out supplements are more health conscious than those that do not.  Vitamin and mineral supplements should not replace a balanced diet, but the key word here is “supplement”.  That means to support, not replace.

Some people may not agree with me here, but I believe that the best vitamin and mineral supplements are those supplied by Multi Level Marketing (Network Marketing) companies (no I’m not going to try to sell you some).  The reason for this is that MLM products have to survive the word or mouth referral and most people will not refer a second rate product to their family and friends and risk damaging relationships. 

The mediocre or rubbish products can be sold in the High Street stores or supermarkets, where they will be carried by the name of the store that sells them.  These supplements do not need to survive word of mouth referral.
Just my opinion.