Episode 70 - All in One Supplements

This episode is all about supplements and how one size doesn’tfitall. Most of the time, these supplements are not giving you everything you needand it’s better to go for a tailor-made solution.

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Hello everybody and welcome back to the Alopecia Angel Podcast. I am your host, Johanna Dahlman. Today, we are going to be talking about all-in-one supplements and all-in-one supplements can look like a variety of things.  It could look like your multivitamin. It can look like you're prenatal. It can look like the green juice mix that you use you know that has a gazillion different types of vitamins and minerals in it. 

It could also be your protein powders right that have a gazillion things in it and all in one and what I've been seeing and when I look at these all-in-one solutions right to take into  multivitamin or be even taking a prenatal or any of these protein powders or green drinks is that they come up short. They come up short because many times it's a catch-all 22. 

First, you're thinking and looking at the product like it's going to be the  all-in-one solution right because this is the marketing ploy to it and it's not and let me just give you a basic situation with a prenatal. If it was just the prenatal, that's not enough. When I was pregnant, I took the prenatal and I took probably like five other supplements to you know support the pregnancy, to support the fetus, to support the the brain health, to support everything else that was going on because one prenatal alone is not enough guaranteed because you're creating another human and I mean you don't understand the extent of that and what that involves I think until you actually become a mom because then you have the the magic and the beautiful miracle of life and birth right.

But going back to a multivitamin, there are a lot of pros and cons to multivitamins. Personally,I don't take a multi. I don't necessarily recommend multi many times because there are many pros and cons including bad ingredients including maybe one ingredient out of the gazillion vitamins and minerals that's not good for you or that's not tailored to you and this even goes along to the hair, skin and nail all in one right .

You have hair, skin and nails and the last time I was in the U.S I was evaluating I totally like more than two hours and I was evaluating getting all these different types of hair, skin and nails and I only found two that had clean ingredients. Two only two that had clean ingredients the rest had a bunch of garbage in it so that just gives you a good idea of what you're dealing with as a consumer moving forward.

So the all-in-ones can be hindering you more than anything and when I look at the hair, skin and nails again, I only saw two products on the market, not the expensive ones right because even those had junk ingredients and even ingredients that could be harming you right.

This is the essence. This is the the basis of the hair and heal program that everything is customized to you because the problem is is like what works for me, it may not work for you so it has to be customized and especially if you have allergies, if you especially if you have you know other predisposition health concerns right so you really need to be weary of the all-in-one.

I'm not a fan personally and when it comes to let's say the all-in-one green drinks with all  different types of green items in there, vegetable fruits and you know extra things and exotic plants and whatnot. These also many times you know don't do you justice and they don't do you justice because first off it's expensive second off, you're not getting everything you need and second off, you could be contributing to a situation that you don't even know you have or contributing to you know worse and worse progress and you would think oh but this is so healthy and this should be healthy for me but many times it's not.

And I've seen this in my clients. I've seen this when I evaluate them with the 10-page evaluation form that I see what they're eating. I see what they're drinking. I see what's going on and a lot of these things are blind spots. A lot of these things are holding them back and can easily be rectified but it's like no one's guiding you when you're in the supplement aisle in the supermarket or at the drugstore or the pharmacy or any no one's guiding you no one's telling you exactly what's good for you right that's only the pharmacist when it comes to medications right because they're able to see exactly what you're currently on but that's also a very different thing.

For example, grapefruit juice is very healthy and grapefruits are healthy right they have lots of vitamin C has lots of things but many of you maybe already know that that interacts with a lot of medications that that interacts and it's like a no a no-go zone like you shouldn't be drinking that or eating that when you're on certain medications and so it could be something so benign as like a fruit or some sort of ingredients inside these all-in-one multivitamins all-in-one hair, skin and nails, all in one supplements, all in one green drink that at the end of the day it's doing you a disservice.

And so when in doubt, I would say don't do the all-in-one. I would say it's better to cherry pick right. It's almost like the buffet at the hotel if you're able to pick from the buffet instead of just getting this you know let's say run-of-the-mill cafeteria food. What would you prefer? Would you like the buffet where you can cherry pick exactly what you want or would you want just the cafeteria you know sloppy joes and that's it you get what everyone else gets. I would want the buffet 100 percent.

So this is where with supplements, you need to be very careful with and you need to see if it's actually beneficial multivitamins. A lot of times going back to the all-in-ones including the multivitamins, they're not giving you everything you need even the prenatal right. 

It's not giving you everything you need and it sure looks like it to the regular person but when you start seeing that you need this let's say for you and for your baby, for you and you know that growing fetus or let's say just for you at your age and maybe your age is below 21, so you're still growing and developing or maybe you're you know you're an athlete and you need extra support or maybe you're at 55 and you need a different type of support. 

You know the multivitamins are not catered to these things and this is where your biodynamics, this is where your health, your weight, your situation is so important because again it's not a one size fits all and this is why it's just all marketing. These all-in-one drinks and supplements are all a ploy for an all-in-one you know the easy convenient way but as you know now, convenience is the easy way out, is not the way towards health, towards hair growth, towards being optimized, towards thriving so this is the situation that we're in.

So when in doubt I would say don't go for the all-in-one supplements. Don't go for the all-in-one green drinks and really get this tailor-made to you. What exactly do you need and what type what classification, what ingredients and what levels, the levels for different supplements are going to be different for everybody and a lot of times it's because of weight.

A lot of times it's because of you know age and how small you are right you know. What I give to my toddler is not going to be the same amount of what I take and vice versa. So these things are very important to take into consideration. So when in doubt, I would say, don't be blindsided by the marketing ploy of all these all-in-one drinks, all in one supplements and again even with a simple prenatal, it's not enough. You need more. You need more because there's more to do. There's more that's going on and the multivitamin is not enough even if you're a healthy person.

And let's say you don't even have hair loss. Let's say, you are just a regular person, regular average on every level across the board, just average, a multivitamin is still not enoug. It's still not enough and so this is where I want you to start thinking about how to approach these marketing ploys differently because again what you think is healthy many times is not and many times it's also holding you back.

I hope this helps and again, Hair N Heal Program should be opening up here soon. I look forward to seeing you inside the program where you would get this customized, where you get the tailor-made evaluation form and you also see what works and what's best for you. I look forward to talking to you next time. Take care.

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