87: Could Your Multi-Vitamin Be Hurting Your Success?

What if the key to unlocking your full entrepreneurial potential lies in the vitamins you're taking? Join us on this episode of Breaking Boundaries for Entrepreneurs, where we promise to enlighten you on the significant choice between conventional and functional medicine multivitamin supplements. We emphasize the crucial role of proper nutrition in achieving peak performance and how integrating high-quality supplements can enhance a balanced diet. Dive into the nuances of evaluating multivitamin quality and the potential repercussions of opting for low-quality options. Through this, you'll gain the insights needed to make informed health decisions that positively impact both your wellbeing and business success.

Discover the profound impacts of multivitamin quality on both your short-term and long-term health. We discuss how inferior products can lead to reduced energy, cognitive impairment, and digestive issues in the short run, while posing long-term risks like chronic health problems and burnout. By embracing integrative health approaches, you'll learn how combining various medical traditions can offer personalized supplement plans that boost productivity and performance. Finally, we explore holistic strategies to align your health with your business goals, encouraging you to prioritize wellness to unlock your full entrepreneurial potential. Don't miss out on this chance to transform your health and supercharge your business jour

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Speaker 1: 1:58

Hello and welcome to Breaking Boundaries for Entrepreneurs, your resource, where we explore the strategies, the tools and the insights that help entrepreneurs just like you break through boundaries and achieve greater success through integrative health. I'm your host and personal integrative health practitioner, jeffrey Mort, and today we are diving into a topic that is crucial for every entrepreneur out there the power of choice, specifically, the difference between choosing conventional or functional medicine, multivitamin supplements, and how making the right choice can help you avoid failure and lead to lasting success. Stay tuned is for you, because today you're going to start breaking boundaries of your mind, body and business with integrative health, and when you do that, your possibilities are limitless. I'm grateful you're here yes, always grateful for you joining me here today. Welcome to another episode of the Breaking Boundaries podcast. For purpose-driven entrepreneurs like yourself, this is episode number 87. And, of course, you'll want to stay till the end when we bring it all together on how to avoid failure and reach your next level of success with integrative health.

Speaker 1: 3:33

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Speaker 1: 4:45

So, as entrepreneurs, we're constantly on the go Our minds and our bodies. They need to perform at their best to keep up with the demands of running a business, and one key factor in maintaining peak performance is ensuring that we are getting the right nutrients. Now you should be eating a healthy diet, of course, and you should be supplementing. And this is why they call them supplements, because they are meant to supplement that healthy diet. We're not getting all of the nutrients that we need from diet alone, so that's why we're supplementing.

Speaker 1: 5:23

But with so many multivitamin options out there, how do we choose the best one? And you know I hear this from my clients so often that, oh well, I'm taking a multivitamin and then I asked them to send a screenshot of that multivitamin so I can evaluate whether or not it's something that's serving them or potentially doing them harm. And that's something we're going to dive into here today. And more often than not I'd say about 95% of the times they are not using a multivitamin that is serving them well and could potentially be doing them harm. And that's, of course, our newer clients. And once we educate them on the difference and you know the the proof is in the pudding, as they say, and I don't recommend putting in your diet but when you begin using a high quality supplement, a high quality multivitamin, it takes a little bit of time, but eventually you'll notice the difference on how good you feel. So you know how do we choose the best one. Well, today I'm going to guide you through the differences between conventional and functional medicine, multivitamins and the importance of daily values and how the quality of ingredients can impact your health as well as your business.

Speaker 1: 6:38

Now, as I guide you through this episode today, as a integrative health practitioner, I do not provide any medical advice. I don't claim to to treat, to diagnose or cure any diseases, but what I help you to do is I get help. You get to the root cause of the problem, and you know a lot of the times. I know this because I've been down this path myself and it's it's always great to have a guide that has been down a path and knows what the outcome's gonna be, knows the right way to go, knows the pitfalls, knows the shortcuts and not that there's many shortcuts in health but knows the right thing to do. And that's what I'm here to do is to help you to do that. And you know it's easy to get caught up in the latest supplement craze. I did this myself before I became a certified integrative health practitioner. You know this is when I did get into health and wellness, but I started experimenting not experimenting, but exploring different things with like medicinal mushroom blends and other products that were out there that were being promoted by celebrities and influencers, and I was overlooking the quality, foundational support that I was missing, that my body actually needed.

Speaker 1: 7:50

So let's start with conventional multivitamin supplements. These are the ones that you typically find on the shelves of your local pharmacy yes, that's correct. Your pharmacy, maybe your supermarket or your local wholesale club, or even in the popular vitamin store chains. Just because it's a store that specializes in vitamins, you know, doesn't mean that they are of the best quality or looking out for your best interest. They're popular because they're affordable, they're easily accessible or they're backed by a celebrity. However, they often use cheaper, less absorbable ingredients to keep costs low, so they're more focused on profits than they are on helping people.

Speaker 1: 8:40

So you're about to discover how to tell if you're being taken advantage of or if you're nurturing your body with a high quality product. For instance, let's talk about vitamin b12. In many conventional multivitamins, you'll find b12 in the form of cyanocobalamin, and that's actually bound to a cyanide molecule. Now it's it's not gonna kill you like taking straight cyanide will, but this form this form is synthetic and is not as easily absorbed by the body. It requires an extra step for your liver to convert it into the active form, which is called methylcobalamin, which your body can actually use, and this extra step can limit its effectiveness, especially if your liver is in poor functioning health as well. That's a topic for a different episode.

Speaker 1: 9:34

So, in contrast, functional medicine multivitamins, also known as orthomolecular supplements. Now, orthomolecular medicine is the science of vitamins and minerals. It's a complete modality in itself. It's one of the seven modalities that's taught to us at the Integrative Health Practitioner Institute. And these orthomolecular supplements they use methylcobalamin. This form is already bioactive and ready for your body to use, leading to better absorption and efficacy as well. Now, a pro tip is to look for the words activated or methylated on your multivitamin label, and if it says that, then there's a good chance that it is a high quality and a functional medicine grade. Now the same goes for minerals. Conventional supplements often contain mineral oxides like magnesium oxide or cupric oxide, which is a form of copper or zinc oxide, and these forms are cheaper and poorly absorbed and can actually cause gastrointestinal discomfort like irritable bowel syndrome. Now, functional supplements, on the other hand, use chelated minerals like magnesium biglycinate or zinc picolinate, and these are bound to what's called amino acids, significantly enhancing their absorption and their bioavailability to the body.

Speaker 1: 11:02

Now, next I want to talk about another crucial aspect is the percentage of daily values. Now, conventional multivitamins often provide lower percentages, just enough to prevent deficiencies and diseases like scurvy or rickets, but not enough to actually optimize health. Don't be fooled by 100% daily values on the label. Now, functional medicine supplements, however, are tailored to meet the higher demands of a busy entrepreneur's lifestyle or athletes. Or you know, you're just even if you're a mom, you know a stay-at-home mom, you have a extremely busy career, busy job, even though it doesn't pay well, and I know this as a parent of three teenagers. But you want to ensure that you're getting adequate amounts to support peak performance. And you know I've had clients say to me from some of the recommended multivitamins that I use in my practice that you know they say to me that why is it 10,000% of the daily value for this particular ingredient in this product? And I explain to them because that's really what the body needs to be healthy and to be able to detoxify and avoid or buffer stress and things like that. So some of those values, just because it says 100% doesn't mean that that's all your body needs. You got to really think of the reference point for that percentage, got to really think of the reference point for that percentage, and that begs the question have you fully considered what poor quality vitamins and minerals can be costing you?

Speaker 1: 12:46

We're going to get into the short and long-term consequences of using an inferior product, so choosing the wrong multivitamin can have significant short and long-term impacts on your health and your business. So I'm going to give you three each here, three short-term and three long-term consequences. So for short-term number one it could lead to reduced energy levels. Poorly absorbed vitamins and minerals can leave you feeling fatigued, impacting your productivity and decision-making abilities. Number two cognitive impairment. Inadequate B12, for instance, vitamin B12 and other essential nutrients can potentially impair memory, can impair focus and overall cognitive function Crucial for running a successful business. This is what I meant by. Is your conventional multivitamin actually harming you? It can impair your memory, your focus and your cognitive function.

Speaker 1: 13:41

Number three digestive issues. As we talked about before, when we're using oxides for minerals, ingredients like magnesium oxide can cause digestive issues, gastrointestinal distress, and what this can do is it can distract you from your work. Distress, and what this can do is it can distract you from your work. And you know, unfortunately, specifically like magnesium, when a medical doctor and they really don't teach orthomolecular medicine in medical school for conventional medicine when a medical doctor typically hears about magnesium, they think about a laxative, because typically magnesium oxide is used and that's more, has more of a laxative effect than a biglycinate or a threonate or something like that.

Speaker 1: 14:25

Now long-term consequences. Let's get into that. Number one chronic health issues. Persistent deficiencies can lead to chronic conditions such as anemia, osteoporosis and cardiovascular diseases, which can severely impact your ability to run a business. Now you might be thinking you know deficiencies, I'm taking a multivitamin. How can I be deficient? Well, if your body is not absorbing these really cheap, inexpensive, non bio available supplementation, then you're gonna deficient in what you're actually supposed to be getting Now. Number two increased healthcare costs. Long-term health issues result in higher healthcare costs Research demonstrates this and adding financial strain to your business while that's happening. Number three burnout and business failure. Continuous poor health can lead to burnout, reducing your ability to sustain and grow your business, ultimately risking that business failure, and we don't want that.

Speaker 1: 15:27

Now I know you are concerned about your future health and this is why integrative health offers the unique solution, especially for entrepreneurs, athletes, any high performers, and I want to talk to you about integrative health, which combines the best of conventional yes, conventional, but functional medicine, orthomolecular medicine, ayurveda, traditional Chinese medicine, herbalism, naturopathy. All of this together makes integrative health, and this helps us to focus on individualized care and high quality supplements to support optimal health. So you might be wondering why choose integrative health? Well, I'm going to give you four reasons right here. Personalized supplement plans Integrative health practitioners like myself, assess your unique needs and we assess this through functional lab testing and then create personalized supplement plans, ensuring that you get the right nutrients in the right forms and the right dosages.

Speaker 1: 16:31

Now number two a holistic approach. It's not just about supplementation. This holistic approach considers all aspects of your health, including your diet, your lifestyle, your toxin removal, your stress reduction. This all provides comprehensive support to enhance your overall well-being. You know, let me ask you something when was the last time that your primary care physician asked how you were sleeping or what were you doing for exercise, or, you know, how was your diet? They typically don't, and if they did, I'm very surprised.

Speaker 1: 17:03

Number three prevention and early intervention. By focusing on prevention and early intervention, integrative health helps you to avoid chronic health issues, and what this does is it reduces the risk of those long-term consequences on your health and your business that we talked about earlier in the show. And number four enhanced productivity and performance. You know it's not just enough to be busy. When people they ask me you know how's business, and I tell them you know, rather than saying I'm busy. Or if they ask me if I'm busy, I say I'm productive, and then they kind of look at me and they get it, because you know busy work doesn't necessarily mean that you're being productive. So enhance productivity and performance.

Speaker 1: 17:43

With optimal nutrition and health, like that holistic approach we just talked about, you can maintain higher energy levels, sharper cognitive function and resilience, which are all essential for your entrepreneurial success. So how can you apply this information to avoid failure and lead to that success? This is where we bring it all together for you. So number one choose quality supplements. Opt for functional medicine, multivitamins with bioavailable forms that we talked about earlier. So you know you want to look for the words activated or methylated right Methylcobalamin on the ingredient list. If it doesn't say it on a label, look on the ingredients on the back and look for things like methylcobalamin. If you see the word oxide anywhere, you probably want to stay away from it and then appropriate daily values tailored to your needs.

Speaker 1: 18:34

Now I can't link up, because I mentioned or I just can't link up supplements or protocols on the podcast, but I can tell you where to find find them. If you go to loveenergywellnesscom, forward slash shop, or just click on the shop tab, that's going to bring you over to our page for our partnership with equal life, the global leader in functional medicine, and if you don't want to purchase from them, I'm completely fine with that. But what I like about our partnership with equal life is there's full transparency. Every one of their products has the label on the product page so that you can find an equal uh product anywhere else if you have. You know, maybe you like pure encapsulations, maybe you like um. You know I'm trying to think of what some of the other brands are um, you know I primarily use equal life, so I'm drawing a blank there. But full transparency. You can match up the Equal Life label to any other supplement that you might be looking at. Maybe it's the one that you have on your shelf right now and you can do a comparison yourself.

Speaker 1: 19:36

Now, number two we're still bringing this all together for you here. Adopt that holistic approach. You want to incorporate healthy eating, regular exercise, stress management, toxin removal on a regular basis, adequate sleep, good sleep quality. You want to bring all of these into your routine to support overall health. And of course, this all ties into what's called the de-stress protocol right, that's our acronym. That we learn and that we teach from the Integrative Health Practitioner Institute, dr Stephen Cabral. And that we teach from the Integrative Health Practitioner Institute, dr Stephen Cabral De-stress diet, exercise, stress reduction, toxin removal, rest, emotional balance, science-backed supplementation. That's what we're talking about here. And then, of course, success mindset.

Speaker 1: 20:16

And number three you want to seek professional guidance. You want to consult with your favorite integrative health practitioner. You can find them at integrativehealthpractitionerorg. There's a directory over there if you want to search by state, but most of them work virtually anyway. So you know we can work with people all around the world. Or you can consult with us at Levin and G Wellness. We'd be happy to talk to you to help you develop, just like any IHP would do develop a personalized health plan that aligns with your entrepreneurial goals. There are. I have some amazing colleagues as integrative health practitioners, so I'm proud to be one of the 5,000 certified IHPs out there serving the world and making it a healthier place.

Speaker 1: 20:58

And then, last but not least, regular monitoring and adjustments. You want to monitor regularly your vitamin and mineral deficiencies and your toxicities through at-home precision functional lab testing and make the necessary adjustments to your supplement and lifestyle regimen to ensure continued optimal performance. So with that, I want to say that investing in your health is investing in your business success. What do you hope to gain by waiting until health issues affect your performance and your business success? What do you hope to gain by waiting until health issues affect your performance and your business growth? Take the proactive step of exploring integrative health and discover how personalized, high quality multivitamin supplements can enhance your well-being and entrepreneurial journey. So here's what the daily foundational protocol would look like.

Speaker 1: 21:47

You're going gonna start with a functional medicine grade daily nutritional support powder or a daily active activated multivitamin. I like the daily nutritional support powder because it has a little bit more than the activated multi, but at a minimum that daily activated multivitamin. Next, daily fruit and vegetable blend. This is a powerful blend of superfoods, um, greens and all the colors of the rainbow are in there. It's actually a green powder, but the daily fruit and vegetable blend 22 organic fruits and vegetables that are dehydrated into a powder to help fight off those free radicals.

Speaker 1: 22:23

The third one that you want in your stack is an omega-3 supplement Now, not just your regular fish oil. You can go back I'll link up the episode for the omega-3 episode that I had but you want at least two grams per day of a two and a half to one ratio of EPA to DHA. That's very important. It needs to be triglyceride, triglyceride bound, and it needs to be single sourced, typically from anchovies, and minimally processed. So that's the litmus test for the omega-3.

Speaker 1: 22:56

Next, you want a daily probiotic. Now, only if you have no digestive issues. If you have digestive issues, you might want to run the Candida Metabolic and Vitamins Lab or the Big 3 Gut Bundle to find out exactly what is going on with the gut before we start adding more probiotics to the party down there. We don't want the digestive issues to get any worse. So, rounding that out, that daily foundational protocol, if you're over 40 years old, you probably want to consider using a digestive enzyme before meals, before whole food meals, not necessarily before your morning smoothie, but before your lunch, before your dinner, to help to be able to break down those foods so you're absorbing more of the nutrients.

Speaker 1: 23:50

So, now that you're ready to optimize your health and performance, I invite you to explore integrative health with a complimentary consultation over at lovingegwellnesscom. We're ready to guide you in creating a personalized wellness plan that aligns with your business goals, ensuring that you stay in peak performance and at the top of your game. I appreciate you joining me on this episode of Breaking Boundaries podcast for entrepreneurs. Remember your health is your most valuable asset and by choosing the right supplements and adopting a holistic approach to health, you can avoid the pitfalls of poor health choices, enhance your productivity and ensure sustained business growth. Don't leave your health to chance. Explore integrative health today and unlock your full potential as an entrepreneur. Until next time, this is your personal high performance health coach, jeffrey mort, reminding you to keep breaking those boundaries and take your success to new heights. Bye.