Ralph Golan, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  The body recognizes and uses molecules of most synthetic vitamins, so do not be excessively purist about this distinction. One notable exception is vitamin E. Synthetic vitamin E, the dl form, has very little vitamin E activity. Avoid it. Use the d form only (see discussion on page 131). (D and dl refer to molecular conformations. | | Whole-food concentrates, brewer's or nutritional yeast, sea vegetation tablets, and synthetic vitamins all have their appropriate places in supporting your well-being. Until my health stabilized, I relied on high-potency multiple vitamin/mineral supplements. Now I lean toward whole-food or herb concentrates. Yet, I still often use a low potentcy multiple vitamin/mineral preparation. And as extra antioxidant fortification I'm careful to get in 2,000 milligrams a day of vitamin C, 25,000 I.U. of beta-carotene, and 400 I.U. of vitamin E. | | The Food and Drug Administration, which regulates this area, does not distinguish between so-called natural and synthetic vitamins, since both have the same structural chemical formulas. If the vitamin is made from sprouted wheat (as are some of the B-vitamin supplements), you may be creating or perpetuating a susceptibility to cereal grain. This is a fact which is overlooked by many vitamin proponents.
I am not against vitamins—far from it. |
Paul Pitchford
See book keywords and concepts |  In the case of excess conditions that result from a very rich diet coupled with a strong constitution, synthetic vitamins may be temporarily helpful as a means of reducing the excess. If a person has a history of eating too much concentrated food (for example, eggs and meat), the excess is partly stored in the liver in the form of protein, fat, minerals, vitamins, and other nutrients. Synthetic vitamin C, taken in large amounts, may help balance this condition. |
Henry Pasternak, D.V.M., C.V.A.
See book keywords and concepts |  One cannot substitute synthetic vitamins and "dead" processed food for raw, "live" natural foods. If one must feed dead processed foods due to convenience and time constraints, then one should supplement the diet with real "live" foods or food concentrates. (We will see in chapter 5, the diet section of this book, how easy this is to do.)
When foods are processed, their nutrients are destroyed and they become unwholesome. This is done to prolong shelf life. |
Francisco, M.D. Contreras
See book keywords and concepts | | There are studies that demonstrate that
"the use of synthetic vitamins (A, B, C, D and E) aggravate the harmful effects of radiation in the offspring of pregnant rats." Big deal! However, other tests prove that nutritional supplements are essential in the prevention of cancer. Research biochemists know it is more than just beta carotene and vitamins C and E in vegetables and fruits that help prevent cancer. Folic acid, one of the B vitamins, is a powerful nutrient, and often deficient in those who need it the most. |
Nicola Reavley
See book keywords and concepts |  Natural vs synthetic
In most cases, natural vitamins have not been shown to be more beneficial than synthetic vitamins. However, vitamin E seems to be the exception and the natural form of vitamin E, d-alpha tocopherol is more potent than the synthetic form, dl-alpha tocopherol. Sometimes vitamin supplements contain other compounds which may enhance the effectiveness of the vitamin, although this is a much debated issue. |
G. Edward Griffin
See book keywords and concepts |  If the preceding hogwash about DES and the glories of processed foods, chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and synthetic vitamins is not "misinformation about health," then there is nothing that could be so labeled! The Oxford Universal Dictionary defines a quack as "one who professes knowledge concerning subjects of which he is ignorant." By either definition, FDA spokesmen are the biggest quacks the world has ever seen.
There is an important distinction between a quack and a charlatan. A quack may be presumed an honest man who truly thinks he is helping his patients. |
Dr. Joseph M. Kadans, N.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  VITAMINS AND MINERALS
The official government position with regard to the difference between natural and synthetic vitamins has been explained in one of the Yearbooks of the United States Department of Agriculture. A government biochemist, George M. Briggs, explained that natural foods have "several important nutrients and substances whose identity we still do not know. We call them unidentified factors. |
Elizabeth Somer, M.A., R.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  In addition, many products labeled as natural are actually synthetic vitamins mixed with small amounts of "natural" vitamins. For example, a natural vitamin C supplement contains mostly laboratory-made ascorbic acid with a small amount of vitamin C from rose hips or acerola berries.
Selenium, chromium, and vitamin E are exceptions to the rule. The "organic" forms of the trace minerals selenium and chromium are called selenium-rich yeast or L-selenomethionine and chromium-rich yeast, chromium nicotinate, or chromium picolinate. |
Annemarie Colbin
See book keywords and concepts |  When this milk is, in turn, pasteurized and homogenized, and when synthetic vitamins are added to it, we can be certain that it is a totally different substance from the one that goes directly from the human mother's nipple to her child's mouth (without even coming in contact with air). As such, it must also have a totally different effect.
According to modern nutritional thinking, milk (and today that means pasteurized, homogenized, vitamin A and D fortified cow's milk) is an "excellent food" beause of its high volume of component elements such as protein and calcium. | | I believe it applies equally to whatever remedies you may be using, be they pharmacological drugs, natural and synthetic vitamins and mineral supplements, homeopathic remedies, herbal remedies, or any food used medicinally:
1. Any substance (drug, supplement, or herb) that cures a symptom will cause that same symptom (a) in a different dosage, either larger or smaller; and/or (b) if used in the absence of that symptom. (Tranquilizers can cause anxiety; digitalis, an anti-arrhythmic, can cause cardiac arrhythmias.)
2. |
William Duffy
See book keywords and concepts |  For years, grains, flours, and bread—gutted of vitamins and minerals in the refining process—had been sold as "fortified" and "enriched," after addition of a few synthetic vitamins. The FDA kept telling us that enriched flour was just as good as the real stuff. Billions of dollars in advertising had programmed the American housewife into grabbing for enriched this and fortified that. So why not enrich white sugar? Suddenly somebody did. |
Ronald Klatz and Robert Goldman
See book keywords and concepts |  At worst, synthetic vitamins can damage the functioning of the human body through biochemical imbalances. A basic guideline to follow when vitamin shopping is that cheaper is not better; if it's cheap it's usually synthetic, which means it was manufactured by poor quality control standards. Also, synthetic vitamin complexes cannot be utilized to the fullest extent that natural complexes can. Their bioavailability and metabolise may be lacking, which means that our bodies can't absorb them. |
Textbook of Natural Medicine 2nd Edition Volume 1Michael T. Murray, ND
See book keywords and concepts | | Examples of these manufactured "natural" medicines include hormones, synthetic vitamins and analogs of plant and animal constituents.
Increasingly, medicines of the types identified in categories three and four are being grown "synthetically" by microorganisms specially engineered to produce the desired medicinal substance. It is difficult to say which of these categories best describes this situation. There are also potential problems with this kind of manufacturing process as evidenced by the tryptophan disaster of several years ago.
Naturopathic physicians also use many natural therapies. |
Francisco, M.D. Contreras
See book keywords and concepts | | Other Consequences of Ingesting Processed F:oods
Our overfed-undernourished-disease-prone scientists "think" that enriching the processed un-foods with a few synthetic vitamins is going to make up for their mischievous technological manipulations. If you think that their minds have not been affected by malnutrition, think again!
Lack of nutritious meals and pollution have gravely affected our IQs. Unfortunately, it doesn't stop there. | | Oh yes, and a good portion of synthetic vitamins! These modern and profitable foods are so well made that they are practically indestructible. Sluggishly, but surely, our organisms are destroyed by them.
With no obstruction from the authorities, backed by major investors, encouraged by the flourishing business and unleashed by our ignorance, food producers force feed us with indecent, ever larger amounts of chemical preservatives. In the 60's Americans consumed about three pounds of these noxious chemicals, in the 70s about six pounds, and now in the 90s we are reaching the ten pound mark. |
Gale Maleskey
See book keywords and concepts |  In some cases, the chemical structure of so-called synthetic vitamins is slightly different from what's found in nature, but manufacturers can change concentrations or quantities to compensate for the differences. Natural vitamin E, for example, is better retained by the body than the synthetic form, but manufacturers can make up for this by adding more synthetic vitamin E to capsules. Thus, although natural E may offer some added protection, the synthetic product is processed to ultimately have the same strength. | | Biotin and niacin show similar characteristics: In both cases, the synthetic vitamins are absorbed better than the natural forms in many foods.
With minerals, the question of natural versus synthetic never comes up. Since minerals are elements, they can only be purified—not created—in the lab. If they aren't mined from the ground, they're separated from other natural sources. Calcium, for instance, is derived from limestone, oyster shells, eggshells, or naturally occurring beds of calcium carbonate. |
Lita Lee, Lisa Turner and Burton Goldberg
See book keywords and concepts |  To supply these, an organic, whole-foods diet is preferable to taking megadoses of synthetic vitamins and minerals. Such a diet will provide adequate amounts of minerals (including zinc), folic acid, the entire vitamin B complex (including biotin), and the fat-soluble vitamins such as A and E, all of which are important in skin health.
Cultured milk products, including yogurt, as well as sauerkraut and other fermented vegetables are abundant with friendly bowel bacteria. These friendly bacteria are essential in maintaining the healthy functioning of the intestinal tract. | | In addition, they are often laced with processed sugars or, worse, artificial sweeteners, and contain synthetic vitamins and minerals. Some of these drinks also contain caffeine or herbal forms of caffeine, such as ma huang or ephedra. Anyone can lose weight by reducing caloric intake and hyping themselves up with stimulants, but it is not a healthy approach to the problem and is likely a short-term solution at best.
Over-the-counter diet pills, such as phenylethylamine, should also be avoided. |
Gary Null, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Today, a steer is born, taken from its mother, and put on a diet of powdered milk, synthetic vitamins, minerals, and antibiotics. Drugs in its food reduce its activities, thus saving on feed. Next it is actually allowed to eat pasture grass, though this is supplemented with processed feed, premixed with antibiotics and growth-promoting drugs. At six months, this animal weighs five hundred pounds and is ready for the feed lot. Here it is doused with pesticides and placed in a pen that is lit around the clock to alter natural sleep patterns and encourage continuous feeding. |
Berkeley Holistic Health Center and Shepherd Bliss
See book keywords and concepts | | Herbs are a natural balance of many substances which can affect the bodymind, whereas synthetic vitamins and minerals, although equally potent, can cause damage and imbalance, because these substances are not easily eliminated from the system.
We must keep open to the fact that there are many different healing approaches. The measure of their effectiveness should not be some abstract or theoretical idea, but whether or not they work. |
Nontoxic, Natural and EarthwiseDebra Lynn Dadd
See book keywords and concepts | | In some cases, synthetic vitamins have entirely different chemical structures than their natural counterparts as found in food. In his book The Body Electric, Robert O. Becker, M.D., states, "All organic compounds . . . are identified by the way they bend light in solution. The dextrorotatory (D) forms rotate it to the right, while levorotatory (L) isomers refract it to the left. All artificial methods of synthesizing organic compounds yield roughly equal mixtures of D and L molecules. However, living things consist of either D or L forms, depending on the species, but never both. |
Cynthia A. Foster, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  He wanted to use synthetic vitamins, something to which I was strongly opposed, especially since I had seen just about everything accomplished without them. He figured the company should make what the people wanted - not what would heal them, and the public wanted vitamins.
We had met many people in the herbal and vitamin industry, and they had told us how commonly the major herbal companies do not get organic herbs because they are too expensive. |
Gary Null
See book keywords and concepts |  Today, a steer is born, taken from its mother and put on a diet of powdered milk, synthetic vitamins, minerals, and antibiotics. Drugs in its food reduce its activities to save on feed. Next, it is permitted to eat some pasture grass, but this is supplemented with processed feed premixed with antibiotics and growth-promoting drugs. At six months, it weighs 500 pounds and is ready for the feed lot. Here it is doused with pesticides and then placed in a pen that is lit around the clock to change natural sleep rhythms and encourage continuous feeding. |
Velma J. Keith and Monteen Gordon
See book keywords and concepts | | VITAMIN ASSIMILATION
— synthetic vitamins are the pure vitamin with nothing added. These vitamins are "created" by man. Natural vitamins are the whole vitamins from a natural source. In 1977 approximately 15 vitamins had been discovered and scientists believed that twice as many as that may exist. By 1980 scientists had identified at least 20 vitamins. In the space of approximately 80 years man had "discovered" 20 plus vitamins, but mother nature has known about them all along-and she knows the ones that remain unidentified. She has been putting them in her food for years. | | Often synthetic vitamins are in a form that the body is unable to break down, so they simply pass through the system without being used. If our health isn't good we may have digestion problems. It makes sense to take vitamins in a form that is easiest to assimilate. The most expensive vitamins are the ones that are not assimilated. (The other expensive vitamins are the ones that sit in the bottle stored in the cupboard, while their shelf life decreases.)
Find good natural vitamins with a base of yeast or herbs which help assimilation of the vitamins. | | Do not take synthetic vitamins especially in large doses. We do not feel that natural Vitamin D is toxic; however taking massive doses of any fat soluble vitamin (except Vitamin E) is not advocated unless a severe deficiency is present. Enemies-Smog, mineral oil
Natural Sources-Fish liver oils, salmon, herring, sardines, tuna, egg yolks, bone meal, organ meats.
Herb Sources-Alfalfa, Bee Pollen, Chickweed, Eyebright, Fenugreek, Mullein, Papaya, Red Raspberry, Rosehips, Sarsaparilla.
Fat soluble. |
G. Edward Griffin
See book keywords and concepts | | Many nutritionists believe that organic vitamins obtained from real foods are superior to man-made or synthetic vitamins because of the trace substances found in one but not in the other. So, too, there is a growing respect for B17 in the natural state. 1At any rate, even though the basic truths have been unlocked, there is still much to learn, and Laetrile advocates humbly admit the need for additional research.
There have been many other medical controversies centered around cancer therapy. Perhaps the best publicized of these was Dr. |
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