Today’s Dadly Daily Declaration comes from Chapter 4 (titled Essential Supplements) of Aubrey Marcus’ book, Own The Day, Own Your Life. This chapter focuses on, you guessed it, vitamins and supplements. According to Marcus, there are three reasons that favor supplementation:
- Our stresses are more in number and different in kind from what our ancestors faced. Our bodies are not designed to thwart these chronic stressors.
- Our environment is rubbings of a lot of the nutrients, minerals and microbial defenses once prevalent in our diets.
- Even if your diet is perfect, there are nutrients available that you can’t find in the produce section of your grocery store or at your local farmers market.
Before going further, Marcus notes that a supplement is something that enhances or completes something else. Supplementation is not a substitute for solid food and physical activity. The six supplements recommended by Marcus include:
- Green’s Blend
- Magnesium
- Krill Oil: Supplement Omega-3
- Supplement Vitamin D
- Supplement Probiotics
- Active B Vitamins
As you shop around for supplements, Marcus notes what you need to know and look for:
- Avoid supplements that are medical claims
- Avoid companies that don’t perform randomized clinical trials on their own products
- Watch out for supplements filled with caffeine
All of this leads to today’s Dadly Daily Declaration:
Small things have big consequences. Over time, those consequences compound. We are the accumulated momentum of all our choices. Some of those choices are binary. Go to the gym or not: that choice in that moment is going to change your day. Over time that choice will change your life. We tend to ignore the importance of fractional benefit because we lose sight of the concept of the tipping point – that little benefit that tips the cup to release a flood of benefit. It may be a 2 percent of difference in force or momentum that flips the coin from heads to tails, or yes to no.
