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Supps vs. Foods: The Conclusion
Despite the dire warnings against pills and powders by your doctor or run-of-the-mill dietitians, supps can do things that whole foods just can't.
Prime examples include creatine, fish oils, CLA, Vitamin D, and things like resveratrol which you simply can't get enough of from whole foods to have a medicinal or physique-enhancing impact. Even protein powders are now seen by the scientific community as having strategic advantages over whole foods.
Compliance plays a big role here too. So while there's lots of advantages to eating tons of organic green vegetables and exotic berries a day, in reality you're probably going to be more compliant just taking your Superfood. It just saves time and money.
But when taken in context, Mother Nature is a wise, wise broad, and she knows more than we do about the magical marriage of phytochemicals and human physiology. So is Dr. Lowery saying to replace your whole foods with supplements? Not at all. But he is saying that sometimes supplements have clear advantages over whole foods.
The science and research community are catching on, too. That means lagging health practitioners, and even the guvment will catch on in, oh, about 15 to 20 years. Until then, eat your whole foods and take your pills and powders.