Supplements Recommended By Metro Chiropractic
Bridge the nutritional gaps in your wellness journey with Professional-Grade Supplements, hand-selected by our experts to provide the clinical-strength purity and bioavailability your body needs to sustain adjustments and fuel long-term recovery.
Whole Food Supplements as Part of Integrative Wellness Care
At Metro Chiropractic, Dr. Rob Elder, DC understands that true healing often requires a comprehensive approach. That's why we recommend professional-grade nutritional supplements as a key component of our integrative medicine services. Whole food supplementation works hand-in-hand with chiropractic care to address the root causes of dysfunction and support optimal health.
A diet rich in a variety of complex nutrients is key to optimal health. The ingredient combinations found in Standard Process nutritional supplements provide a spectrum of nutrients to support multiple organs and systems in the body. These supplements are formulated with ingredients as they are found in nature—in a whole food state where their natural potency and efficacy is realized.
Many healthcare providers now recommend therapeutic nutritional supplementation as standard treatment because of its proven benefits. Studies have shown that proper nutrition can help reduce inflammation, support immune function, improve energy levels, and enhance the body's natural healing capacity.
At Metro Chiropractic, we integrate whole food supplementation with our advanced diagnostic and treatment methods to provide you with the most comprehensive care possible. Our staff will provide you with access to Patient Direct, an online ordering platform that offers a more convenient way for patients to access recommended products.
How Whole Food Supplements Can Support Your Health
Immune System Support:
Strengthen your body's natural defenses with targeted nutritional support that provides the complex nutrients your immune system needs to function optimally and help you maintain health throughout the year.
Whole Body Wellness:
Support your entire body's health with comprehensive nutritional supplementation that addresses multiple systems simultaneously—from cardiovascular and respiratory health to digestive function and energy production—for true integrative wellness.
Inflammation & Pain Management:
Address chronic inflammation and pain conditions by providing your body with the nutritional building blocks it needs to reduce inflammatory responses, support tissue repair, and maintain healthy function throughout your musculoskeletal system.
Metro Chiro's Recommended Suppliers
Patient Direct By Standard Process
OUR WHOLE FOOD PHILOSOPHY:
Since 1929, Standard Process has been dedicated to the field of nutritional supplements and the whole food philosophy introduced by Dr. Royal Lee. His goal was to provide nutrients as they are found in nature – in a whole food state where he believed their natural potency and efficacy would be realized. Based on this philosophy, we start with whole foods – like peas, radishes, and beets. Then, we prepare these ingredients in a way that safeguards their nutritional value. A whole food supplement is a complex formula that includes whole food-based plant ingredients, plant and animal extracts, desiccates, or synthetic ingredients as required to create the best dietary supplement for each health indication.
INGREDIENT SOURCING:
A great majority of all raw plant ingredients that go into our products come from the Standard Process certified-organic farm. For the foods we don’t grow, we actively source the best-quality nutritional ingredients from around the world. Our health-supporting whole food animal tissues are derived from bovine, ovine, and porcine sources and are obtained exclusively from USDA-certified facilities in the United States. Tissues may also be purchased from Argentina and New Zealand with appropriate health certificates.
WHAT EXACTLY IS A WHOLE FOOD SUPPLEMENT?
Whole food-based supplements generally include foods that are prepared in a way that safeguards their nutritional value. The great majority of these ingredients are grown locally on our certified organic farm, including alfalfa, barley grass, beets, Brussels sprouts, buckwheat, kale, kidney beans, oats, peavine, and Spanish black radish. This allows us to control the quality of these ingredients from seed to supplement. Individual components may require chopping, dicing, juicing, and/or drying.
DELIVERING THE COMPLEX NUTRIENT CONTENT:
To account for real-world variability inherent when safeguarding the nutritional integrity of our ingredients, we apply a holistic approach to how we farm, manufacture, and quality-assure our products. This comprehensive approach ensures that our nutritional supplements deliver their complex nutrients as nature intended.
Southern Botanical
All data taken from the Southern Botanical website.
Southern Botanical follows traditional herbal wisdom and the natural intelligence of plants. Their herbal concentrates focus on supporting whole systems of the body, for example, the circulatory or respiratory system.
Standardized herbal extracts isolate certain chemicals in plants, leaving out the other beneficial properties. The process used to make standardized herbal extracts is a refining process that isolates certain studied chemicals in the herb, then processes the whole plant to get more of this, instead of using the part which is richest in the desired property that also has complementary components. The berry of a certain herb may have the most potent effects on the heart, but to make an standardized extract, the leaves and stems will also be used for their smaller amounts of it, although they may have non-beneficial components too. The result is more of the targeted chemical component, but without the synergistic and complementary factors which haven't been tested, studied or isolated, and resulting in a more 'phyto-pharmaceutical' compound. We prefer the wholistic method.
When you include the entire phytonutrient-rich part of the plant instead of just taking out certain chemicals, you keep the natural balance. This is a safer way to make herbal products because modern science still does not fully understand how individual chemicals in plants work in the body. If you isolate a specific chemical that is safe in its natural form, it can have a dangerous effect when not balanced by other chemicals in the plant. This gives the impression certain plants are not safe, when it's the isolated extract that is out of balance.
Standardized herbal extracts make more sense for controlled medical studies than as herbal remedies. When used as herbal remedies, standardized herbal extracts are chemically unbalanced and similar to pharmaceutical drugs. The whole parts of organic herbs we use for our formulas have active ingredients found in standardized extracts along with all the other beneficial properties in the plant.
Ortho Molecular Products
Ortho Molecular Products is a professional-grade nutraceutical company that formulates high-quality dietary supplements designed to support overall health and targeted wellness goals. Founded in 1989 and based in Illinois, the company works exclusively with licensed healthcare practitioners, including chiropractors, to provide evidence-based nutritional solutions.
Their products are developed using rigorous scientific research, premium raw ingredients, and strict manufacturing standards to ensure purity, potency, and efficacy. Ortho Molecular offers a wide range of supplements that support areas such as joint health, inflammation response, digestive health, immune function, stress management, and metabolic balance.
Because their formulas are practitioner-exclusive, patients receive personalized recommendations tailored to their specific health needs as part of a comprehensive care plan.
Doctor's Research
Doctors’ Research, Inc. is a professional-grade supplement company that specializes in 100% whole food–based nutritional products designed to support optimal health and physiological balance. Established in the late 1990s, the company focuses on delivering nutrients in forms that closely resemble those naturally found in food, emphasizing the body’s ability to absorb and utilize them effectively.
Their formulations are developed using natural food complexes, avoiding synthetic isolates and heavily processed ingredients. This whole food approach is rooted in nutritional research suggesting that nutrients derived directly from food sources may offer enhanced bioavailability and support for the body’s internal environment.
Doctors’ Research offers a wide range of supplements that support areas such as immune function, detoxification, metabolic health, energy production, and musculoskeletal wellness. Their products are distributed primarily through licensed healthcare practitioners, including chiropractors and holistic providers, allowing for personalized, practitioner-guided supplementation tailored to each patient’s unique health needs.
Premier Labs
PRL Laboratories is a professional-grade supplement company that specializes in whole food–based nutritional products designed to support optimal health and cellular function. Founded in 2008, the company is known for its focus on foundational nutrition, emphasizing mineral balance, detoxification support, and bioavailable nutrient formulations.
Their products are developed using carefully sourced ingredients, including organic plant compounds, trace minerals, and naturally derived nutrients, with an emphasis on purity and minimal processing. PRL Laboratories follows strict quality control standards to ensure consistency, potency, and effectiveness across its product line.
PRL works closely with healthcare practitioners, including chiropractors and holistic providers, to deliver targeted nutritional solutions that support areas such as metabolic function, immune health, detox pathways, energy production, and overall wellness. Their practitioner-guided approach allows for personalized supplementation tailored to each patient’s unique health goals.