When I first went to see Vaidya in 2008, I brought my supplements with me.

I was proud of them. Quality brands. Good ingredients. All the right nutrients.

I told him: “They give me energy.”

He looked at them and said one word: “Stimulants.”

That moment stayed with me for a long time.

Because he was right. That energy I was feeling wasn’t nourishment. My body was being pushed, not supported.

Here’s what he taught me:

Most supplements are made in labs – synthetic copies of nutrients that originally came from living food. And when you isolate a nutrient that way, three things happen.

First, it loses its cofactors. Take vitamin C. Isolated ascorbic acid is just one molecule stripped of everything nature put around it. Vitamin C from a whole food source comes with bioflavonoids and other compounds that help your body actually use it. The isolated version is missing that.

Second – and this is the deeper teaching – it loses its prana. Its vibrational nutrition. The living intelligence that no lab can replicate.

Prana is what allows your cells to know what to do. When to release which hormone. When to make neurotransmitters. How to communicate with each other so your whole system stays coordinated. Your heart beats. Your liver filters. Cells repair themselves. Hormones release at exactly the right time. That coordination doesn’t come from nutrients alone. It comes from prana.

When a supplement is made in a lab, that intelligence is gone. Your body gets the molecule but not the wisdom. The building materials are there. But the thing that tells your body what to actually do with them – that’s gone.

Third – this is something Vaidya taught me that I think about with every patient – the liver only recognizes food. When it receives something synthetic, something it doesn’t recognize as food, it has to work incredibly hard just to metabolize it. Even while it may be delivering some benefit, it is simultaneously creating burden.

This is why something can help and hurt at the same time.

And I want to be clear – this doesn’t mean every supplement is useless. Some are necessary. Some are genuinely helpful for a period of time. I’m not saying throw everything away.

But the question is bigger than “is the nutrient there?”

The deeper question is: can your body actually recognize it? Can it use it? Does it nourish – or does it stimulate?

This is why lab numbers can improve while you still feel terrible.

I see this constantly. Women come to me having taken dozens of supplements for months or years. Their numbers may look better. But they don’t feel better.

So we begin looking differently. Not just at what they’re taking – but at whether their body can actually receive and use it.

When we shift toward herbs that are properly prepared, whole food sources, and remedies the body can actually recognize – something changes. Not because we added more. Because we gave the body something it could actually work with. Something that carries intelligence.

And here’s a simple way to start paying attention to this yourself:

When you take something, how does your body actually feel? Not just in the moment – but over time. Does it actually feel supported? Or slightly pushed, slightly off, even if a symptom improves?

Your body can tell the difference. It really can.

Look for whole food sources whenever possible. Herbs that are wild-crafted or grown and processed in ways that preserve their intelligence. And companies that understand that how something is prepared matters as much as what’s in it.

That’s just a very different way of thinking about this than most people have been taught.

I’m curious to hear your experience, and I’m glad you’re here.

🩵 Dr. Lisa Raskin – Soma Radiant™ Wellness

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