Fast food, packaged meals, and convenience diets are often high in calories but low in real nutrition – leaving your cells starving for vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants.

High stress, erratic schedules, and grabbing meals on the go all drain your body’s reserves and leave little time for recovery or eating healthy foods.

Over-farming, soil depletion, and early harvesting strip our fruits and vegetables of once-rich nutrient content- even organic foods.

Many prescription and over-the-counter medications (like heartburn medications, birth control, antibiotics, and metformin) interfere with nutrient absorption and can lead to long-term deficiencies.

While effective for weight loss and blood sugar control, these medications often slow digestion and reduce appetite, leading to decreased food intake and missed key nutrients – especially Vitamin B12, magnesium and other electrolytes.

Plant-based lifestyles can be incredibly healthy, but often lack Vitamin B12, iron, zinc, omega-3’s and amino acids that are harder to source without animal products.

Imbalance in healthy gut bacteria impairs nutrient breakdown and absorption, even when you’re eating all the right foods.

Ongoing stress depletes magnesium, Vitamin C, and B Vitamins – key players in mood, immunity and resilience.

Low stomach acid (or frequent use of heartburn medications) prevents the body from properly absorbing iron, calcium, magnesium and Vitamin B12.

Surgeries like gastric bypass or sleeve gastrectomy dramatically reduce nutrient absorption requiring lifelong supplementation – often delivered via IV.

Conditions like Crohn’s and ulcerative colitis disrupt the gut lining, causing poor nutrient absorption and leading to deficiencies in iron, Vitamin D, folate and Vitamin B12.