{"id":2227,"date":"2017-05-01T20:38:30","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T20:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/superhumantransformation.com\/?p=2227"},"modified":"2017-05-01T23:13:30","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T23:13:30","slug":"whats-in-your-supplements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/superhumantransformation.com\/whats-in-your-supplements\/","title":{"rendered":"what&#8217;s in your supplements?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>if you haven&#8217;t watched our <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/EUkfOY7K0AU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">strategic supplementation video<\/a>, please make a point to do so :) \u00a0if you aren&#8217;t sure what&#8217;s in your supplements, or if you&#8217;re taking the right ones, <a href=\"https:\/\/superhumantransformation.com\/connect\/\">schedule some time with us!<\/a><\/h2>\n<h3><strong>on vitamin A.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>palmitate is a salt form of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Palmitic_acid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">palmitic acid<\/a>, which has shown to be toxic in the literature.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beta-Carotene\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">beta-carotene<\/a> is NOT vitamin A.<\/li>\n<li>we want <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Retinol\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">retinol<\/a>, ideally coming from real food, and ideally our superfood <a href=\"http:\/\/evclo.com\/products\/extra-virgin-cod-liver-oil\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rosita&#8217;s Fermented Cod Liver Oil<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>it needs to be balanced with appropriate amounts of natural forms of vitamin D and D3. \u00a0which happens automatically in something like our Fermented Cod Liver Oil.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>on vitamin C.<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>ascorbic acid is typically synthetic and derived from GMO corn, unless otherwise specified.<\/li>\n<li>our vitamin C is from <a href=\"http:\/\/vitamincfoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Vitamin C Foundation<\/a>, verified to be China and GMO-FREE. \u00a0the best quality stuff we&#8217;ve ever found.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>on vitamin K.<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>phytonadione is synthetic K1.<\/li>\n<li>we think more beneficial would be K2 such as the version found in Thorne Research product we recommend.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>on folic acid and folate.<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;human exposure to folic acid was non-existent until its chemical synthesis in 1943, and was introduced as a mandatory food fortification in 1998.&#8221; \u00a0for more info on the difference between folic acid and folate, visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/chriskresser.com\/folate-vs-folic-acid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/chriskresser.com\/folate-vs-folic-acid\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>natural sources of\u00a0folate come from romaine lettuce, spinach, asparagus, turnip greens, mustard greens, parsley, collard greens, broccoli, cauliflower, beets, lentils and liver.<\/li>\n<li>when supplementing we want actual folate or the 5-MTHF version that we\u00a0recommend.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>remember, if we&#8217;re going to supplement, we might as well do it right! \u00a0and that means we need to right versions, from the right sources, and high quality!<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>if you haven&#8217;t watched our strategic supplementation video, please make a point to do so :) \u00a0if you aren&#8217;t sure what&#8217;s in your supplements, or if you&#8217;re taking the right&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2228,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,118],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/superhumantransformation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/superhumantransformation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/superhumantransformation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superhumantransformation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superhumantransformation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/superhumantransformation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superhumantransformation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/superhumantransformation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superhumantransformation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superhumantransformation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}