How to tell if your supplements are working

Are you taking expensive supplements that go in one end and come right out the other, without being used by your body? Here’s how to tell whether you’re getting real nutrition, or just little more than a placebo.

People, especially athletic people, should be getting all the vitamins and minerals they need from natural food. But that’s hard to do in our modern world. Fruit is picked before it’s ripe and placed in cold storage, then allowed to “ripen” under florescent lights in a grocery store. The tree didn’t feed it to the finish, so that kind of fruit will have less nutritional value than a tree ripened piece of fruit.