Today your body will lose between 15 to 70 billion cells in a normal process of cell death and will continue to make new skin cells, bone cells, muscle cells, etc. YOU NEED REPLACEMENT INGREDIENTS!
The human body is an amazing machine producing thousands of red blood cells daily that wind up in your bloodstream where your busy heart which beats about 120,000 times a day can pump that rich nourishing blood containing nutrients and oxygen to every part of your body.
OK. You may take a breather now!
Your body is also actively producing an army of white blood cells to fight invading bacteria, viruses, parasites and cancer cells. While your nerves are firing electrical signals along thousands of kilometers of brain and body pathways, your liver and other organs are busy manufacturing protein and fatty acid messengers to shuttle from organ to organ delivering messages and issuing orders to orchestrate and sustain your life.
To accomplish these many tasks requires a slew of raw materials, some of which include essential vitamins and minerals that your body cannot produce on its own in sufficient amounts.
These compounds perform countless duties in the body like building and maintaining bone health, healing wounds, supporting your immune system, helping convert food into energy, and repairing cell and tissue damage to keep you in tiptop shape.
Essential vitamins and minerals are often referred to as micronutrients because your body only needs tiny amounts of them in contrast to macronutrients which are carbohydrates, fats, and protein which the body requires in larger quantities for energy metabolism and other functions. If, for whatever reason you do not provide your body with enough micronutrients, invariably disease will happen.
For example, a few hundred years ago, the most common cause of death among sailors was a condition called scurvy due to a vitamin C deficiency. In those days it was not uncommon for sailors to go for months on the high seas without eating fresh fruits or vegetable, the main sources of Vitamin C.
Even today there are people suffering from severe nutritional deficiencies and diseases such as scurvy, rickets, and pellagra are still quite common.
In the United States, severe Vitamin and mineral deficiencies may not be as commonplace but nutritional insufficiencies are fairly common.