These are concentrated whole food in tablets or capsules prepared using a process that preserves all of the active enzymes and vital components that make it work as Nature intended. These real food supplements have been designed to match the needs of the body. These are nutrients you are not getting, or not assimilating, in your current diet. Designed Clinical Nutrition is NOT ‘over-the-counter’ vitamins. Over-the-counter vitamins are pharmaceutically engineered chemical fractions of vitamin structures reproduced in a laboratory. They are not derived from whole foods and often make you even more deficient and nutritionally out-of-balance. They can create other health problems because they do not contain all of the co-factors found in nature that make the vitamins work.