Why You Must Supplement

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Why You Must Supplement with Clean Ingredient Nutrition in Today’s Modern World

Written by

Chef Gregg Fortunato – Co-Founder & CEO

Elyxar Superfoods

I’ve spent 25+ years in professional kitchens, obsessing over ingredients, mastering flavor, and studying how food truly fuels the body. That passion turned into rebellion — because once I understood what was really happening to our food system, there was no going back.

Even the most health-conscious, disciplined people are running on empty. Not because they’re lazy — but because the system is rigged. The food is depleted. The supplements are fake. And the truth? It's buried under billion-dollar marketing.

That’s why my brother (a doctor of integrative medicine) and I created Elyxar. Not another “green powder.” Not another scam in a pouch. But a weapon — forged to fight back.

We didn’t build a product. We built a solution. One scoop a day of uncompromising, bioavailable, real nutrition — to restore what modern life has stripped away.

Because the “clean” supplements handed to you by the same labs that poisoned the food in the first place?
They’re part of the problem.
Elyxar is the antidote.

The Food on Your Plate Isn’t Enough Anymore

Let me be blunt: food doesn’t feed us anymore.
Our soil is barren. Our produce is picked early and modified for shelf life, not substance. Even organic and local options can’t fill the nutritional void created by decades of industrial degradation.

And while we’re told we can “eat our way to health,” the stats say otherwise:

95.4% of adults lack sufficient Vitamin D
93.9% are low in Vitamin E
71% fall short on Vitamin K
60.9% don’t meet magnesium needs
Over 50% miss Vitamin A and calcium

That’s not a “health gap.” That’s a full-blown collapse.

You’re exhausted, foggy, inflamed — and you’re told it’s stress or age. But the truth? Your biology is starving.
And no — a salad and a multivitamin aren’t going to save you.
You need to rebuild. From the inside out. Every day.

Bar chart of common micronutrient deficiencies in U.S. adults — emphasizing the need for comprehensive daily nutrition like Elyxar’s all-in-one superfood blend.

Source: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2003–2006
Table from: "Usual Micronutrient Intake from Food Sources and Prevalence of Micronutrient Inadequacies Among U.S. Adults (ages ≥19 Years)"
Reference: Bailey, R. L., et al. (2010). Journal of Nutrition, Volume 140, Issue 10, Pages 1864–1872. DOI: 10.3945/jn.110.124826

Supplements Should Support You — Not Sabotage You

Let’s get something straight: most supplements are poison in disguise.
And I don’t say that lightly.

I dug into powders and capsules marketed as “clean” — and what I found was horrifying:

Gums that wreck digestion
Anti-caking agents that interfere with absorption
Stevia and sugar alcohols that hijack your taste buds
“Natural flavors” — code for dozens of hidden compounds they legally don’t have to disclose

This isn’t health. This is manipulation.
Why are we trying to heal with the same chemicals that made us sick?

If you’re showing up to the gym, eating clean, living consciously — but still drinking lab junk dressed up in leafy logos — you’re being played.
It’s time to stop fueling the illusion.

What Clean Supplementation Really Means

At Elyxar, “clean” isn’t a label. It’s a war cry.

No stevia.
No fillers.
No gums, binders, or chemical disguises.
No “natural flavors” — ever.

Every ingredient earns its place.
Every scoop serves a biological purpose.
Every dose is a rebellion against the machine that hijacked wellness and sold it back to you diluted.

Clean means this: real food, real function, no lies.

The Birth of Elyxar

We were doing everything “right” — clean food, movement, hydration, discipline — and still felt depleted. That’s when we realized:

Modern wellness is broken.
And no one’s coming to fix it.

So we built our own solution. Not a product. A protocol. A once-a-day ritual that defies the narrative.
We started from scratch — sourcing 60+ whole-food, functional compounds the body actually recognizes. No shortcuts. No synthetics. No compromises.

When I couldn’t find a supplement I could trust as a chef —
When my brother couldn’t find one he could prescribe as a doctor —
We made it ourselves.

Elyxar Daily Superfood Complex pouch displayed on smooth coastal rocks with ocean backdrop — illustrating Apotheka Superfoods’ nature-rooted, chef-inspired wellness formula – daily supplement with vitamins, minerals, adaptogens, probiotics, and electrolytes.

Elyxar is the result:

Antioxidants from real berries and microalgae
Functional mushrooms for focus and immunity
Adaptogens to tame the stress system
Electrolytes and enzymes to fuel real digestion
Prebiotics and probiotics to fortify your gut
Vitamins and minerals your cells actually know how to use

It’s not wellness theater. It’s your body’s backup plan.
No filler. No fluff. Just power.

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Is This a Replacement for Real Food?

Hell no.
This isn’t some fake meal or powdered shortcut. And any brand claiming that? They’re part of the problem.

Elyxar doesn’t replace real food. It replaces what food no longer delivers. It fills the gaps that farming, processing, and modern life have opened.
We call this Foundational Nutrition — a daily minimum your biology can count on.

Because you can’t build strength on a hollow core.

Why This Matters Now More Than Ever

Elyxar isn’t another brand. It’s a stand.
A refusal to accept the lie. A call to arms for biological sovereignty.
A reminder that the body isn’t broken — the system is.

—
Chef Gregg Fortunato
Co-Founder & CEO, Elyxar Superfoods
Chef-Inspired + Science-Backed

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