Phytonutrients Info

Phytonutrients are important to your health but I'll bet you've never really given them much thought.

You wouldn't be alone! Still, they're critical. What are they? Phytonutrients are key nutrients that come from plant material.

You may also have heard the term "Phytochemicals" as well. Phytochemicals are not helpful to human health but are actually plant chemicals.

There are also over 900 of them. Phytonutrients, however, while not not as important as vitamins and minerals for the sustaining of your life are powerful substances that help prevent disease.

What diseases? Cancer, cardiovascular disease (heart problems in other words), cholesterol diminishing, diabetes, and hypertension.

Phytonutrients are usually but not always concentrated in the skins of the fruits and vegetables you eat everyday (or at least you should be!).

They are also responsible in providing the scent, flavor, and even color of those vegetables and fruits.  

Importance of Phytonutrients

While phytonutrients are not vitamins or minerals, some nutritionists and Western doctors think they are actually more important, believe it or not. Why? Their importance primarily lies in the fact that they are radical free scavengers. Free radicals are rogue oxygen molecules that are the primary agent to aging.

These free radicals cause aging, but also contribute to the onset and sustaining of diseases.

Phytonutrients help to neutralize and eliminate toxic chemicals by balancing the activity of enzymes in our body. They also help to regulate the flow of hormones in our bodies as well.

If they did nothing else but help neutralize these free radical scavengers, they would be important. In essence, they are powerful antioxidants these phytonutrients.

Types of Phytonutrients

Here are some types of your favorite phytonutrient. Allyic Sulfides: These are found in the onion family including leeks, garlic, and onions.

Now you know why Russians eat onions raw! Healthy if not bad for their social life! Carotenoids: These phytonutrients are in very colorful fruits and vegetables like wheat grass, oranges, lemons, limes, tomatoes, carrots, radishes, etc. Flavonoids: Most popular ones are apples, rasperries, blackberries, grapes, celery, etc.  

Recommendation

Doctors recommend that you and I should eat 5 to 6 servings of vegetables and fruit a day, not to mention eating 6 to 8 glasses of water a day. So, according to doctors, I'm supposed to eat all day I guess!

By the way, the best way to eat your fruits and vegetables is raw as this preserves the enzymes, phytonutrients, and not to mention the vitamins and minerals.

This is best for assimilation. I don't know about you but that's a lot to ask sometimes.

While the importance of fruits and vegetables and their valuable phytonutrients are unquestioned, supplementation can also help as well as being more convenient.

I take this multi-vitamin/multi-mineral supplement. 

It contains both green and red phytonutrients as well as coral calcium. It's also a pharmaceutical-grade quality supplement.

Did you know that 1 out of 5 supplements have harmful ingredients? Not this one. It is manufactured in GMP-compliant facilities.

The quality of this supplement could rightly be called a "nutraceutical" as it's quality is equal or superior to FDA-approved pharmaceuticals.

Yours in health,
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