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There Is No Perfect Nutrition, and We Are Named After It

July 7, 2022 · 2 min read · Everyday Nutrition

We are called The Perfect Nutrition, so let us deal with the obvious first.

There is no perfect nutrition. Not as a fixed thing that would be the same for you and for the next person. Age, size, activity, medication, what you can afford, what you can cook and what you will actually eat twice a week all move it. Anybody selling you one answer is selling you their answer.

What does exist is balance, and it is less mysterious than the industry it supports.

What balance means in practice

Enough energy for what you do, with the protein, fat and carbohydrate in proportions you can sustain, and a wide enough range of plants that the micronutrients look after themselves. That is most of it.

The two words doing the work there are wide and sustain. Variety beats optimisation, because the more different things you eat the fewer gaps there are to worry about. And a diet you abandon in five weeks has done less than a mediocre one you keep for five years.

Where a supplement fits, honestly

Here is the part we have a stake in.

A supplement fills a gap. It does not make a poor diet into a good one. If your eating is broadly reasonable and something specific is missing, or you eat few plants on a working week and want to raise the floor, that is what these products are for and they do it well.

If the eating itself is the problem, a supplement is the expensive way of not addressing it. We would rather say that here than have you find it out after six months of subscriptions.

There are narrower cases where the argument is stronger. Omega-3 if you eat little fish. Vitamin D through a northern winter. B12 on a vegan diet, which is not optional. In those, the supplement is the straightforward answer rather than the consolation prize.

Seven things that are actually true

- Fewer ingredients on a label is usually better than more. - A long ingredient list on a supplement means small amounts of most of them. - Results from changing how you eat show up over months, not weeks. - Whole fruit beats fruit juice, and both beat confectionery. - "Superfood" is a marketing category, not a scientific one. Some of the foods in it are genuinely nutrient-dense. The word is doing no work. - Cooking at home is the single highest-leverage change most people can make, and it is the one nobody sells. - The best version of all this is the one you will still be doing next year.

What we sell, and what it is for

LIMU Original is a seaweed drink, and what the research on its best-known compound does and does not support is in our fucoidan guide rather than on the bottle. Moa is a fruit and plant blend, reviewed honestly including the taste in our Moa review. The Nutrifii range is the foundational supplements: multivitamin, minerals, omega-3.

None of them is a diet. They sit alongside one.


These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.

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