Did you know that the word vitamin was coined by a Polish biochemist named Casimir Funk in 1920?

It comes from the Latin word Vida, meaning life, and Amin, because scientists originally thought they contained amino acids.

Vitamins and supplements have come a long way since 1920, and today we'll discuss the

benefits that they can provide. Welcome back to Essential Oil Solutions with Dutera,

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Today we're excited to talk to Katie Hussong about the best vitamins and supplements for you.

Katie, thank you so much for being here to talk with us today.

My pleasure. Thanks for having me.

One of the big questions around this topic is, do multivitamins actually work?

Do they do anything for us?

Yeah, I can actually really relate to this question because I used to be one of those people

that asked that question and kind of scoffed at the idea of multivitamins and supplements

in general, really.

Everything kind of changed. It was like a revelation

kind of moment for me when I was studying nutrition and I was learning about the health of our soil.

In even just the last century, there are estimates that it's been depleted of its vitamins and minerals, even like 50% perhaps

of what, yeah, of what used to be there many years ago.

This is the result of farming and other environmental players, let's say, that are contributing to that.

But the result is that even if you're eating this, you know, quote unquote, perfect, local, healthy,

organic, non-GMO diet, right, of food, that the amount of vitamins and minerals that we would

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