A groundbreaking study surprised a lot of people.

Two Harvard researchers, Drs. Robert Fletcher and Kathleen Fairfield, performed a landmark review of nearly 40 years of scientific evidence on nutritional supplements. Their study was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Their findings are why most doctors now recommend daily vitamins.

They found that the current North American diet is not sufficient enough to support health and well-being. Especially in the face of

1. stress
2. the challenges of aging and
3. a food supply that’s nutritionally depleted. In their words:

“Recent evidence has shown that suboptimal levels of vitamins (below standard), even well above those causing deficiency syndromes, are risk factors for chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, and osteoporosis. A large portion of the general population is apparently at increased risk for this reason. Vitamins help prevent the usual diseases we deal with every day…”

So should you take vitamins?

It seems like a good idea to at least take a high quality daily multivitamin-mineral formula. Look for a pharmaceutical grade professional product, because you want to make sure that the nutrients actually get into your cells.

Many commercial vitamins are commodity grade and they are lacking purity, potency and bioavailability.