Jentzer Wellness Institute   

Every culture on the planet has food as a major component of its identity and food is often a major feature in social gatherings. Before modern farming techniques, which rely heavily on pesticides and unbalanced fertilizers to increase yields, became widespread; before modern worldwide distribution networks necessitated picking crops before they developed to their full nutrient potential; before modern manufacturing enabled the mass production of highly processed foods, humans did not need to think about what they were eating. Most humans accidentally received adequate nutrition from their food. The price we pay for living in a modern society is that we now need to think about what we eat.

Think about putting nutrients into your body. Your body is the most incredible set of interconnected chemical processes ever devised. Your whole system operates on a set of chemical checks and balances. Forget the notion of good and bad. There is nothing good or bad about your body. There are chemicals that signal processes to start and other chemicals that signal processes to stop. There are so many chemical processes going on that you would need several PhDs in biology and chemistry related fields to understand them all. It is not even clear that scientists working in these fields have even identified every chemical process working in your body. Where does that leave you? You're hungry and you want to eat. How in the world are you supposed to figure out what to eat. Relax. Here is what the top nutrition scientists have figured out so far.

Think about nutrition as consisting of two major components: micro nutrients and  macro nutrients