So what makes it so much better to get your nutrients through foods rather than supplements? I understand you need to eat, but say all you’ve got is potatoes and multivitamins, is that very much less effective than eating a balanced diet? Or is it just “ideal” to get them through foods but you’ll still be ok?
Like if that’s all you had for a month, would your health really suffer negatively?
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* If you swallow a small iron ball, you will poop an iron ball.
* In Hawaii the soil is high in iron, but to grow pineapples they fertilize with iron.
* The air is 78% Nitrogen, yet nitrogen is the most important fertilizer for plants.
The technical terms for this are chelation and bioavailability.
Pure iron or even rusted iron oxide is not easy for life – whether plants or animals to absorb.
Nitrogen in the air is almost impossible for plants to absorb. Only certain plants can absorb it, and that’s because of special bacteria that actually absorb it for the plant.
If we eat meat, our body can quickly absorb iron from it. If we eat plants our body will have difficulty absorbing iron from it. If we eat iron, it doesn’t get absorbed and is pooped out.
Basically these compounds have to be in natural compounds, and this makes it easier for the body to digest and absorb. It also makes it easier for plant roots to absorb.
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