🌱 Functional Compounds: Beyond Vitamins & Minerals

For much of modern nutrition education, nourishment has been reduced to vitamins, minerals, and macronutrients. While these are essential, they represent only a fraction of how food communicates with the body.

Whole foods contain thousands of biologically active compounds that do not meet the traditional definition of “nutrients,” yet play a critical role in how the body adapts, regulates, repairs, and protects itself. These are known as functional compounds.

Functional compounds do not “feed” the body in a simple sense. They signal it.