"No muscle power"

My little guy didn't want to bath because "Got no muscle power!" I had an Everest sized dose of skepticism. This guy? Tired? We'll see.

It seems our skepticism muscles are getting a massive workout at the moment. Trump shot? Biden all there? And loadshedding miraculously solved? It's exhausting. 

The one area I keep my skepticism up is with the subject of supplements. I try to go to the source and double check the "common knowledge." Here's a couple of common knowledge mistakes:

"You shouldn't need more than the RDA of vitamins." - Actually, the RDA was developed during World War 2 to figure out what the minimum nutrition soldiers needed to keep standing while they fought. Being healthy wasn't the objective. We actually need much more!

"You only need tiny amounts of Vitamin D" - The RDA for vitamin D is 600iu. The body can make that in 5 minutes in the sun. Recent studies tested 400iu to 10 000iu a day and found no greater side effects at the higher doses, but the benefits of Vitamin D are being discovered all the time. 75% of people are vitamin D deficient.

"You don't need to supplement, you can just eat right." - Our food's nutrients have declined over the years. A study showed between 6% and 38% drop in nutrients from our food. Supplementing replaces those missing nutrients. The shift to modern, intensive farming practices after WWII, including the use of high-yield crop varieties, synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides, has been a major factor in nutrient depletion.

And when I saw the two boys wrestling like they were trying out for WWE at 9pm, I knew I had been duped. Always double check the facts!

Which is why you'll find higher amounts of most of the nutrients in The Daily Shake. Sometimes more is more.

Next week we'll discuss the moon landing! (Just kidding.)

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