Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| These synthetic vitamins are usually labeled thiamine (Bl), riboflavin (B2), niacin (B3), and calcium pantothenate (B5).
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In a study where pigs were fed large amounts of synthetic B vitamins, the pigs produced sterile offspring. synthetic vitamins provide no nutritional value—they are poisonous!
Since white flour contains no fiber, it is difficult to pass through the large intestine. Processed foods often contain large amounts of white flour that can cause constipation and significantly increase waste transit time, and this gives toxins more time to enter the bloodstream. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 These synthetic vitamins – which are really just industrial chemicals – may be called "Vitamin E" or "Vitamin A" or even "Vitamin C" but they have no functional resemblance to the real vitamins that occur in nature. Every single study over the past two decades that has sought to discredit Vitamin E, for example, focused on using synthetic Vitamin E in order to show harm. It is curious that no researcher from the world of conventional medicine will ever test the natural, full-spectrum vitamins, nutrients and phytochemicals that appear in nature. You know why? |
| All statistics on the dangers of synthetic vitamins are reported as relative risk to make the numbers seem larger (and vitamins seem dangerous).
And this is how conventional medicine lies with statistics. It's only one of the many tricks used to disinform the American public about the dangers of pharmaceuticals or the benefits of nutrition.
This research published in JAMA does remind us of one important point, however: synthetic chemicals are harmful to human health. If you take cheap "vitamins" made of these synthetic chemicals, you are doing yourself more harm than good. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Conventional medicine still hasn't even accepted the idea that the human body has any real nutritional needs whatsoever (except, perhaps, for basic synthetic vitamins to prevent rickets and pellagra). Medical doctors still aren't taught nutrition in med school, and the whole raw foods movement is only starting to gain mainstream momentum. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 While the FDA will openly tolerate useless synthetic vitamins (which are mostly made by pharmaceutical companies anyway), the rogue agency will not tolerate herbal products that actually work to cure cancer, halt diabetes, reverse heart disease or otherwise strip revenues from Big Pharma by eliminating disease.
Personally, I hope you support this company just to spite the FDA. You can learn more about their bitter melon product at www.charanteausa.com
Bitter melon really works to help regulate blood sugar. In my view, it works better than diabetes drugs. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| In a study where pigs were fed large amounts of synthetic B vitamins, the pigs produced sterile offspring. synthetic vitamins provide no nutritional value—they are poisonous!
Since white flour contains no fiber, it is difficult to pass through the large intestine. Processed foods often contain large amounts of white flour that can cause constipation and significantly increase waste transit time, and this gives toxins more time to enter the bloodstream. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 That means avoiding synthetic vitamins and minerals because these laboratory creations do not contain all of the co-factors and synergistic values that nature provides," says Fitzgerald.
Given Fitzgerald's research on food processing, getting the "Recommended Daily Allowances" of the vitamins we need from the foods we eat may not be possible. That does not mean you should not improve your food intake or avoid educating yourself on how to get the most from what we have available. |
Andreas Moritz
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 In any case, synthetic vitamins should be avoided at all cost.
A large study testing the potential benefits of antioxidants such as Vitamin C, Vitamin E and beta carotene for the heart in women found no benefits whatsoever. The study was reported on CNN August
14, 2007. You will need to determine whether it is worthwhile to spend a lot of money on supplements that don't work, but could possibly affect you negatively.
What about Taking Extra Minerals? |
Ron Garner
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 Animals that were fed enriched white flour products died first because the enrichment of this flour is from synthetic vitamins and minerals. Raw whole wheat contains approximately fifty main nutrients whereas refined white flour contains no more than two or three.
Too Much Protein
Our bodies use protein to make, repair, and replace tissue. The structural materials of cells are proteins reinforced by minerals. Contrary to popular opinion, the body does not use protein from its tissues for energy. |
| Tests with rats fed synthetic vitamins found that they died sooner than rats given nothing to eat.3 The synthetic, incomplete supplements stimulated the animals' systems, increasing their metabolic rates and literally causing them to "burn up" or wear out at a faster rate.
Despite the preceding caveats, supplements can play an important role in paying back deficiency debts to the body created by years of nutrient-deficient food consumption. |
| As Richard Murray points out:
... synthetic vitamins are not vitamins at all but synthesized FRACTIONS of a vitamin complex ... a mirror image duplication of just a portion of the real, biologically active and physiologically precise nutritional complex. There is no possible way that a fraction of a vitamin can be called a vitamin. The analogy here is essentially the same as an automobile salesman handing you a wheel from a car and telling you the wheel is an automobile.2
HELPFUL OR HINDERING?
To be useful to the body, a supplement must be of an organic origin and contain enzymes. |
| Nature's vitamins heal. synthetic vitamins stimulate, but do not heal.
Dr. Royal Lee, who founded Standard Process Laboratories, notes that:
Natural complexes differ from synthetic, crystalline vitamins in many ways:
1 They are colloidal, protein in nature, in the form of an enzyme or coenzyme.
2 The crystalline vitamin itself, in the natural product is in a critical combination and cannot be split off without destroying its biological activity. If separated, it must recombine with the other members of the complex before it can function as a nutrient. |
| The smaller a nutrient is the more capability it has of entering into combination with other elements and forming the electrical matrix required to transfer energy to a cell. synthetic vitamins, due to their non-ionic structure, do not have this capability, nor are they complete complexes.
Any food or vitamin must contain the appropriate live enzymes to be utilized by cells. Enzymes make transport of nutrients through cell walls possible. Live food comes complete with enzymes to assist with its digestion and assimilation. Most vitamin and mineral supplements do not contain enzymes. |
Ann N. Martin
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 If you are going to supplement your pet's diet with synthetic vitamins and minerals, be sure to consult a holistic veterinarian first. Both vitamins and minerals are required in minute amounts, so it is better to under-do than to over-do.
Vitamin A (Beta-carotene and Retinol) Vitamin A occurs in two forms: beta-carotene and retinol. Vitamin A in the form of beta-carotene is primarily in leafy green and yellow vegetables, carrots, dandelion greens (which contain five times the amount of vitamin A as carrots), sweet potatoes, broccoli, kale, and fruit. |
Ron Garner
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| APPENDIX 8 purchasing supplements
When selecting and buying supplements, remember that: þNature's vitamins heal; synthetic vitamins stimulate the body but do not heal. þNatural complexes come from live, whole organic food sources, with their enzymes and electrical properties intact. They have been manufactured with minimal processing. þNo supplement should be taken in concentrations greater than those found in food. þThe body cannot use, and does not accept, isolated or synthetic nutrients. |
Melody Petersen
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 More truly effective drugs were invented between 1935 and 1955 than in all previous human history Penicillin was followed by other antibiotics, new vaccines, synthetic vitamins, antihistamines, tranquilizers, and steroid drugs like cortisone. Some of these new medicines set new standards because they didn't just soothe symptoms of illness. They actually cured or prevented life-threatening diseases. Children and young adults especially benefited. A child cured of tuberculosis by streptomycin could credit the antibiotic for decades of living. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 We don't augment it with synthetic vitamins A or D. What you are getting in one teaspoon of our cod liver oil is the highest level you would see in any cod liver oil of DHA and EPA. It is 700 milligrams of DHA. It is 450 milligrams of EPA, and the vitamin D ranges anywhere from around 10 to 40 IU, which doesn't necessarily come up to your 100 percent level of intake, but it does affect brain health and mood. The vitamin A can range anywhere from about 990 IU to 1,950 IU. This comes close to 40 percent of a recommended daily allowance.
Mike: A couple of things are interesting with your product. |
Mike Adams
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| Stripping away all the nutrition from a grain of wheat and then adding in minute quantities of synthetic vitamins is not the way nature intended for food to be prepared.
So even though we are a population that consumes massive quantities of calories — in fact, one meal at an American restaurant is enough to feed a family of four in most countries around the world — we still suffer from widespread malnutrition caused by nutritional deficiencies in the foods we're consuming. The foods and drinks we eat and drink are simply not nutritious. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You know, it's a vitamin tablet times ten, but it's coming all from whole foods, so there's no synthetic vitamins or chemicals in the Miracle Greens.
Mike: All whole food concentrates?
Ortiz: All whole food concentrates.
Mike: No sweeteners, no fillers?
Ortiz: I put just a touch of stevia in it and that's it.
Mike: Ah, perfect. That's the best way to go. I like it. And can people purchase this direct from your website?
Ortiz: We have our website, it's miraclegreens.com. We're in most of the health food stores throughout the country, including Whole Food stores and Ralph's grocery stores. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
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 These experiments may make us think about the long-term results caused by the consumption of high-potency synthetic vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and proteins currently practiced. This is not a statement against the use of nutritional supplements. The author suggests that synthetic supplements should be used with the awareness that assimilation involves the interaction of dynamic forces between us and the food and not just the mechanical absorption of nutrients, and that the indiscriminate use of synthetic supplements is something to be aware of. |
| We may use some supplements in stage III, but in this stage we start to tune into the subtleties of organic versus synthetic vitamins and our own internal harmony. Almost all vitamins are synthetics. One way to recognize the few natural vitamins and minerals on the market is by their low potencies. For example, natural B vitamins usually do not exceed 10 milligrams of B, B2, and B6. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 Instead of synthetic vitamins, take whole food supplements.
Eniva, entire product line www.eniva.com/products (800) 964-4303
Vibe and other great options www.livingnutritionals.com (800) 642-4113
Amazon Herb Co. www.amazonherb.net (866) 519-7565 New Chapter www.new-chapter.com (800) 543-7279
Megafood Food Based Supplements www.organicpharmacy.org (800) 819-6742
Pure Synergy—The Synergy Company www.synergy-co.com (800) 723-0277
Vitamineral Green www.healthforce.com (760) 747-8822
21. Do not use antiperspirants or deodorants.
Body Crystals www.thecrystal. |
Mike Adams
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| As naturopaths and holistic nutritionists and anyone in wellness and natural health knows, there is a huge difference in synthetic vitamins and nutrients versus living vitamins and nutrients. The health effects from living vitamins are vastly different from that of dead foods or synthetic chemicals.
When you take a green bean off of a bean bush in your garden and eat it in its raw living form, you're giving yourself an outstanding form of nutrition that goes beyond merely the vitamins, minerals, fiber, protein, carbohydrates, and other measurable nutrients in that green bean. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
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| From the theoretical viewpoint of the SOEFs, synthetic vitamins have crystalline structures as do the natural vitamins, but they have weak SOEFs and bond less well to the appropriate sites in the body To bond and act effectively in the body, they take energy from our own SOEFs. Initially, because of their higher concentrations, we get a stimulating effect. For some, this stimulating effect may last a few months or even several years. If the high synthetic potencies are taken for a long time, our SOEFs may become depleted and the system thrown into imbalance. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Barron: It provides basic calories, protein and synthetic vitamins. It's nothing.
Mike: Again, what kinds of formulas are at baselinenutritionals.com?
Barron: The doctors I worked with -- the ones getting the best results -- had something in common. They tended not to worry about what a particular disease was. Basically, someone came in with MS, cancer or whatever, and they put these people on the same program. The idea was to take care of the whole body. |
Mike Adams
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 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. |
Jack Challem
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 How to Take Vitamin E Supplements
For the most part, natural and synthetic vitamins are indistinguishable from each other, but this is not the case with vitamin E.The natural and synthetic forms of vitamin E have different molecular and chemical characteristics. The natural form is more potent and is absorbed twice as well as the synthetic form.
You can easily identify the natural and synthetic forms in supplements, but you have to read the fine print on the back of the label. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 This is one of the major reasons why whole food supplements are so much better than chemical or synthetic vitamins. It is also the reason why studies and research done on synthetic vitamins do not necessarily show favorable results. When studies are conducted with whole food concentrates, whole food concentrates that include not only the vitamin in question, but all the cofactors and parts and elements that defy analysis, the results are always better. Remember, science is not better than nature. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 Synthetic vitamins are produced in laboratories from isolated chemicals that mirror their counterparts found in nature. Natural vitamins are derived from food sources. Although there are no major chemical differences between a vitamin found in food and one created in a laboratory, synthetic supplements contain the isolated vitamins only, while natural supplements may contain other nutrients not yet discovered. This is because these vitamins are in their natural state. |
Joseph E. Mario
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 Synthetic vitamins may be dangerous to the body under certain conditions, in high doses can damage the Immune system. Tablets are subjected to heating, excipients, fillers, binders, and coatings.
THE WATER- & FAT-SOLUBLE VITAMINS
NOTE: All Vitamins, Minerals and Proteins are organized in the following EIGHT-PARTS for clarity:
•NAME Nutrient identification, Atomic Number, positive or negative aspect, average body content, technical data, and variations.
•WORKS WITH Lists the other nutrients which this particular Nutrient makes more effective in operative power or endurance. |
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