I have wondered if vitamins were a worthwhile expense throughout my adult life (and they are expensive!). I’ve heard things ranging from you must take vitamins to your body can’t absorb them/you have to take them with the right minerals/you pay for vitamins your body can’t use, so you just pee them out.
Who knows, I’m not a scientist. I certainly don’t take urine samples and analyze them.
Plus, I’ve had dietary hubris in the past, thinking, ‘I eat an organic diet, plenty of produce, I eat healthy meats and fats.’ But I guess there is enough research piling up that swayed me (don’t worry, things may be looking up).
I see now, that while I should continue eating these foods, it was naive for me to think I could get enough nutrients from food.

I am spending a lot more time looking at dōTERRA’s product line, as I am working to be a knowledgable consultant for them, and I have now learned that though they are an essential oil company their #1 selling product is their vitamin pack. (That’s kind of crazy. It’s akin to the spa I work at having their #1 selling product be cold pressed juice).
They report having put in the science into it that these vitamins have optimal levels of bioavailable nutrients in them, as well as utilize the help available in essential oils. If you take half a dose at breakfast and half a dose at lunch, they claim you will feel better, younger, longer.

Going from not buying vitamins to buying a pack of theirs was somewhat a significant expense for me, but if its the difference between getting enough nutrients or not, I figure it’s worth the experiment. Plus they have a full refund for a month guarantee, so it’s actually  no risk at all. I either feel like it works, or I get refunded.

I trust dōTERRA’s product line too. If they say there are no fillers or unhelpful/harmful ingredients in their vitamins, I really believe them. There’s a lot of trust they’ve gained from me by their 3rd party lab testing.

So, here we go! I’m on day 1, we will see…

Day 1: Definitetly felt steady energy

Day 2: Didn’t want or use coffee

Day 3: Wasn’t ravenously hungry (weird for me) and didn’t have coffee or want coffee all day. I average 2 cups/day.

Day 8: Wednesday’s are VERY long for me, but here I am 12 hours in and I feel like I have fresh afternoon energy, instead of being tired and dreading the next 4 hours.  I have been eating average portions for meals instead of large meals. I haven’t had coffee other than as a weekend treat. I wake up and immediately think of my vitamins.