The Foundational Four

If you are striving to have more energy, feel better and stay well, as good place to start is with the “Foundational Four.” These are the four supplements that will help keep your body running like a well-oiled machine. Here’s why we and others in the industry suggest them...
Due to the lack of nutrients in the everyday foods we depend on to sustain us, it’s no wonder that life expectancy rates have dropped by a tenth in recent reports. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) seem to point to the rise in obesity rates as the culprit.

Factory farming methods and pre-packaged foods have stripped our food supply of important, life-sustaining nutrients. If those nutrients are not supplied by our food then they must be supplied through supplementation. Your health depends on them!

All Vitamins are Not Created Equal
Multi Vitamin/Mineral Complex: When buying a multivitamin, you need to be aware of the differences in quality. You may think that the once daily in the silver label or the once daily for men/women that you picked up at the grocery store or drug store is a high quality item. After all, it’s advertised on TV, and in every magazine you pick up. What you may not realize is that, not only is it not a quality product, it contains vitamins that are synthetic (man-made from chemicals), artificial colors, binding agents and shellac that prevent it from breaking down, and even aluminum. They’ve done all this to a vitamin that is supposed to be GOOD for you!

Your best choice is a vitamin supplement that is all natural, from whole food concentrates. That means that the company that makes them, extracts the nutrients from food, not chemicals. They should be a high-potency multi. Most drug store brands are so low in potency that they only give you enough of any one vitamin to prevent diseases such as scurvy or rickets.

Your vitamin needs to be guaranteed to break down! Most health food store brand vitamins contain digestive enzymes that help them to not only break down, but to absorb. Hard tablets with a shellac coating are going to pass right through and in most cases, come right out looking the same as they did when you took them. Sounds like a waste of money. Remember the old adage, you get what you pay for!



What’s That Smell?
Fish Oil: Again, I cannot stress enough the importance of quality when purchasing a fish oil! Fish oil should NOT smell fishy! If yours does, throw it out! It’s rancid. Fish oils can be contaminated with any number of harmful substances. Mercury is one of the biggest ones we hear of but there are countless others.

The way fish oil is processed, cleaned and tested has everything to do with the quality of the finished product. The companies that Baums carries are the highest quality, cleanest fish oils you can buy! We’ve done the research for you so that you can be certain that every bottle that you purchase from Baums is going to give you the most benefit for your buck.




“Friendly” Bacteria Promote Better Digestion & Overall Health
Probiotics: Such amazing power these little “critters” have over your health and most people don’t even realize how important probiotics are! What are probiotics? They are good bacteria that live throughout your gut that kill harmful bacteria, viruses, fungi, and yeast. They also help your body to break down and absorb the food you eat. Probiotics used to be plentiful in our diets. Many years ago, raw milk and cheeses and naturally fermented foods like homemade buttermilk and sauerkraut were common foods. That just isn’t the case anymore. Some yogurts contain probiotics but usually just one strain and in a low dose.

Probiotics need to be replenished daily. Everyday stress, chlorinated water, fluoride, alcohol, birth control pills, hormone therapy & poor diet are all killers of probiotics in the gut. Did you know that when you take an antibiotic, it kills all bacteria in the body, not only the bad ones. When you kill off the good bacteria, yeast, fungi and other pathogens have a way in and can do harm. Probiotics help with: Allergies, skin problems, bad breath and body odor, yeast and fungal infections, constipation and diarrhea, immune system and overall well being.

Baums carries probiotic formulas for newborns to seniors. We also carry a variety of strengths, sizes & formulas as well as liquids, powders, capsules, chewables and tablets. We have something for everyone!




Digest This!
Enzymes: Many foods, especially raw foods contain live enzymes that help start the digestive process. When food is cooked above 118 degrees wet (steam, boil) or 150 degrees dry (bake, fry, grill), the enzymes are destroyed. This leaves your body responsible for secreting the enzymes necessary for breaking down the foods that you eat. When your body has to do this over and over, everyday, it places a lot of stress on your system and organs. This leaves less time and energy for your body to secret enzymes for repairing damaged cells and tissues and keeping your immune system strong.

How do you know if you are lacking enzymes? Heartburn, gas, constipation, bloating, allergies, ulcers, lack of energy and reduced immunity can all be symptoms of not enough enzymes.

Think of every packaged food sitting on a store shelf. How can food have such a long shelf life? They contain no enzymes. Processing has stripped all of the enzymes from the food so that it does not rot. Fresh food rots, packaged food does not. Give your body a break and take an enzyme when you eat! You’ll feel better and have more energy!