Basic / Nutrient Supply

Why even healthy eating often isn’t enough

A balanced diet is the foundation of health – but is it still enough today to fully supply your body with all essential nutrients? The sobering answer: often not. Our foods contain significantly fewer vitamins, minerals, and trace elements than just a few decades ago. Add to that the fact that individual needs vary greatly depending on diet, lifestyle, and life stage. The result: even people who eat consciously often have nutrient gaps — and usually only notice when fatigue, susceptibility to infections, or poor concentration become part of everyday life.

Depleted soils – why vegetables aren’t what they used to be

Intensive agriculture, monocultures, pesticides, chemical fertilizers — our soils are exhausted. Studies show: the nutrient content of fruits and vegetables has dropped dramatically over the last 50 years. Apples now contain about 80% less vitamin C than in 1950, broccoli has 75% less calcium, spinach contains 60% less iron. The reason: soils that can’t regenerate properly pass fewer nutrients on to plants. Modern cultivars are optimized for yield, size, and shelf life — not nutrient density.

This means: even if you eat vegetables every day, you’re consuming far fewer vitamins and minerals than your grandparents did with the same amount. To reach the same nutrient levels, you’d have to eat multiple times more — practically impossible.

Complex formulas instead of isolated nutrients – how optimal nutrition really works

Many supplements rely on isolated single nutrients: only vitamin D, only magnesium, only omega-3. But your body doesn’t work in isolated parts — it needs nutrients in synergistic combinations, just like nature designed them. One example: vitamin D alone cannot work optimally. It needs vitamin K2 to channel calcium into your bones (instead of your arteries), magnesium to activate it, and zinc for immune and cell function.

Our complex formulas do exactly that: not isolated vitamins, but coordinated nutrient complexes with natural co-factors. Nutrients that support each other, enhance each other, and become optimally bioavailable. Just the way nature has done it for millions of years — not how the pharmaceutical industry designs products for maximum profit.

Examples of synergistic complexes:

• Vitamin D Complex: VitaDK plus with D3 + K2 + magnesium + zinc + boron — for bones, immune system, and heart
• Omega-3 Complex: AlgaeDHA with EPA + DHA + natural algae co-factors — for brain, heart, and metabolism
• Amino Acid Complex: MyAMINO® with all 8 essential amino acids in the optimal ratio — for cell building, regeneration, neurotransmitters
• Alkaline Mineral Complex: VitalBASE® with various alkaline minerals + apple pectin — for acid-base balance and electrolytes
• B-Vitamin Complex: ChitosaCLEAN colon, PlastiCLEAN® or SulfoCLEAN® with B vitamins — for energy metabolism, nerves, and detoxification

These complexes work holistically: they support not just one function, but your entire body and metabolism — bones, muscles, heart, brain, immune system, and cells.

Vegan and vegetarian nutrition: where gaps can appear

Plant-based eating is healthy — but often incomplete without targeted supplementation. Critical nutrients in vegan diets include:

Vitamin B12: Found almost exclusively in animal products. A deficiency leads to fatigue, nerve damage, and anemia. Every vegan should supplement B12 — no debate.

Omega-3 (EPA/DHA): Plant-based ALA (e.g., from flaxseed) converts to EPA at only 5–10% and barely to DHA. EPA and DHA are essential for brain, heart, and inflammation balance. Solution: algae oil — vegan EPA and DHA straight from the source, without going through the fish.

Essential amino acids: Many plant proteins (rice, pea) have incomplete amino profiles. Solution: an amino acid complex with all 8 essential amino acids in the optimal ratio — highly bioavailable, vegan, soy-free.

Vitamin K2: Found mainly in fermented animal products and natto. Essential for bone and cardiovascular health. Vegans often lack it.

Iron and zinc: Plant-based iron is poorly absorbed, and plant zinc is often bound by phytates.

Solution: targeted complex formulas that fill these gaps — not isolated nutrients, but synergistic combinations.

Vitamin D deficiency – the widespread issue in Germany

80–90% of people in Germany have a vitamin D deficiency — especially from October to March when the sun is too low to produce enough vitamin D in the skin. But vitamin D is not just a “bone vitamin” — it regulates over 200 genes, modulates immunity, influences mood, and supports muscle strength.

A deficiency can lead to: weakened immune system, higher susceptibility to infections, fatigue, low mood, muscle weakness, osteoporosis. But vitamin D alone isn’t enough — it needs K2, magnesium, zinc, and boron for optimal function. A vitamin D complex closes this gap holistically.

Over-acidification – the underestimated nutrient thief

Too many carbs, sugar, meat, white flour, coffee, alcohol — and far too little vegetables, fruits, and herbs: many people are chronically over-acidified. This burdens your metabolism, inhibits enzymes, weakens bones (because calcium is pulled from them to buffer acids), and drains your energy.

An alkaline mineral complex restores acid–base balance, provides electrolytes (magnesium, potassium, calcium), and supports your metabolism. For more energy, better recovery, and stronger bones.

Stress – the silent nutrient thief

Chronic stress is one of the biggest nutrient drains. Why? Because cortisol (the stress hormone) puts your body in constant alert — and this state burns through nutrients at high speed.

Magnesium: Stress depletes magnesium faster than you can replenish it. Result: tension, cramps, nervousness, sleep problems.

B vitamins: Essential for energy metabolism and the nervous system. Stress drains B vitamins — result: fatigue, poor concentration, irritability.

Vitamin C: Consumed heavily during stress. Result: weakened immunity, slower wound healing.

Antioxidants: Also burned rapidly during stress.

A B-vitamin complex with magnesium and vitamin C supports your body during stressful phases — for strong nerves, stable energy, and good recovery.

Why “doing everything right” still isn’t enough

You eat organic, move regularly, sleep enough — and still have nutrient gaps? Totally normal. Even organic foods contain fewer nutrients today (depleted soils affect organic crops too!), stress burns nutrients faster than you can replenish them, and individual needs (sports, pregnancy, age, diet) increase your requirement.

Prevention beats repair. A targeted basic supplement routine fills gaps before they become deficiencies — and helps your body function optimally.

What makes a good foundational nutrient supply?

A good foundational supply is:

1. Holistic: Not just one nutrient, but synergistic complexes
2. Bioavailable: In natural, highly absorbable forms
3. With co-factors: Nutrients that support each other
4. Individually adaptable: Based on diet, lifestyle, life phase
5. Scientifically grounded: Based on orthomolecular principles

Trust in orthomolecular quality – for a strong foundation

Our foundational supplement products are based on orthomolecular principles: the right nutrients, in the right form, at the right time. No isolated single nutrients, no synthetic vitamins without co-factors — but synergistic complex formulas that support your entire body and metabolism. Made in Germany, scientifically grounded, holistically designed.
For a strong foundation — every day, for life.