Perfect Health Diet Supplements

So as I was writing my last post about moving to Perfect Health Diet when our Whole120 is complete, I was reminded that I followed the Jaminet's supplement recommendations pretty religiously during our Whole100 in 2015. I also did a month of no coffee in February, and interestingly I started really noticing changes in my body around Day 60. I didn't do either of those things this time, nor did I see those results (at least not as dramatically). Which led Annah to ask in one of our text convos if "maybe no coffee and supplements make all the difference?" Maybe.

When people start talking about supplements, I often have a knee-jerk reaction that I'm being sold something, but as you can see on the PHD supplement page, they are not marketing some hocus pocus concoction that you can only get from them! They only use an Amazon affiliate link to vitamins that they've sourced and there are notes about why you need them.

When I first switched to the PHD protocol,  I was shocked, SHOCKED by how much more magnesium was recommended on PHD. I take two pills now that are each as big as the one prenatal vitamin I took was--and that's just the magnesium! When I don't take it, I feel a difference.

I mean look at all of that!

Honestly it's quite intimidating to get started and the start up costs can add up too, now that I've been up and running for a while it's not so bad to replace the vitamins that I run out of here and there, and have I mentioned that I feel a difference? Because I really do.

So once a week I pull up the supplement page and fill up my weekly pill box. (I use an AM/PM one and my husband does one side while I do the other.) I check the page even when I remember what all I need to take because they do make adjustments occasionally as new research comes in. Never anything drastic. It's honestly kind of a hassle and I start wishing that they DID have their own branded supplement with everything rolled into one... Obviously I think it's worth it though.

I've seen in several places (that I'm too lazy to source right now) this theory of obesity where your body is starving for nutrients, so it signals that you need more food in order to try to get you to eat the nutrients you need. But by eating whole foods and balancing your nutrition, your body will tune in to an appropriate amount of food. I wish I'd tracked my food more thoroughly in both of these super rounds of Whole30 because while my portions go down over time, I wonder if they went down further on the supplements? Or maybe it was just that my nursing baby was farther along. And I was two years younger.

I have no answers! Seriously. Wish I did.

Anyway, you'll also notice on the supplement page that there are several real foods listed as "supplements" because they believe that it is super important that you eat them for certain vitamins and minerals. Fermented veggies and seaweed were pretty easy for me, but I didn't grow up eating liver and was pretty intimidated by it. I did figure out something that works for me though, but that's it's own blog post...