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Our current causal models of how nutrients behave in our bodies are woefully incomplete. Many of the substances referred to under the term "Vitamin X" come in m
by nazgulnarsil 12y ago
Our current causal models of how nutrients behave in our bodies are woefully incomplete. Many of the substances referred to under the term "Vitamin X" come in many forms that do different things. It is unsurprising that an isolated compound doesn't help much. MealSquares address exactly this issue. We know we're supposed to eat a variety of whole foods but we don't. So we put a whole bunch of nutrient dense foods in a convenient package. Bioavailability is much much better than supplements.
- vanderZwan 12y agoThere's also the fact that the absorbtion of a nutrient can depend on what other nutrients are being digested at the same time. For example, adding iron to breakfast cereals is completely ridiculous. First of all, it's added as pure iron. You don't absorb iron in its mineral form, it needs to be in some organic form to be digested. So that already makes it totally pointless. But let's ignore that for a moment and pretend we could digest mineral iron. Turns out that if your food contains iron and calcium, the calcium will take precedence and effectively block the absorption of iron. And what do we pour on our breakfast cereals? Oh, right. Milk. It also can work the other way around: vitamin C helps with the absorption of iron.