Why is it important to get your nutrients from whole food vs. supplements?

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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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This has been studied extensively by NASA and the military. Apparently the human body is awesome at **extracting** needed nutrients from whole foods. When you give the body the building blocks such as amino acids, they are given as “salts” and act like osmostic laxatives pulling water and nutrients out of the tissues leading to diarrhea, dehydration and mineral depletion….

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