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We as a species live on this planet and have been affected by all that has happened to our environment. We are not machines; we are living breathing creatures that need all the life around us. Our daily lives may have mentally removed us from nature. However, our bodies still remember the truth and yearn for those nutrients that our modern lifestyle has stripped away from our diets.

Most pharmaceutical drugs are the product of people tinkering with natural medicines to try and make them more powerful. Sometimes making them more powerful has bad side effects.

There are two forms of cholesterol. LDL and HDL. While LDL is often termed “bad” cholesterol HDL is actually beneficial to the human body.

Because we evolved alongside all the other animals on the planet our bodies are a complex system that needs particular nutrients from across the spectrum. The foods we eat are often mass produced and refined to the point where all traces of fundamentally important nutrients are stripped away. Coupled with the lack of balance our diets often have, this is where supplementation comes into play; to supply us with those nutrients that we have stripped from foods.

Vitamins are actually groups of molecules not single items. In foods, vitamins have multiple components that work together to produce a desired effect. Oftentimes vitamin supplements only contain single molecules that are deemed to be the only “important” part of the whole vitamin. What’s more, vitamins as they are found in food are also often found in the presence of additional compounds that further help the body assimilate and metabolize the ingested nutrients. That’s why it’s important to know what goes into a vitamin supplement, so as to get the maximum benefit.

Our acidophilus is enteric coated. Enteric coating is a kind of encapsulation which protects its content from being released in the stomach. This is good because if the poor friendly bacteria are released in the stomach, our acids will let only a few survive the process. Luckily with enteric coating, the friendly bacteria are released in the intestines, where they are happy to thrive.

New Roots Herbal is a quality formulations based company. We try to create the most wonderful formulations possible to put energy and good health back into people’s lives.

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