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THE TRUTH ABOUT SYNTHETIC VITAMINS

THE HUMAN ANIMAL

The human animal is designed to operate efficiently on small amounts of nutrient-dense foods that are readily found, farmed, and raised in nature. When it comes to the consumption of human-oriented nutritients, quality is king over quantity. Dynamite comes in small packages. Vitamins are tiny, yet complex, molecules that are condusive to the state of being alive.

Vitamins exist in their natural state as living complexes in what are commonly known of as food. Natural food is alive. Animals are alive. Plants are alive. They may not appear be alive when you eat them, especially after you cook them, but the energy of the food, the chemical bonds of the molecules, and the general structural layout of the nutrients, still have a remnant, or blueprint, of the living entity that it once was. All living things share something in common. Even without getting into DNA, the genetic blueprints of all living things, all life is defined in one way:

THE TRADE-OFF

All of life is a trade-off. Life needs energy to survive. Life needs energy to move. Life needs energy to reproduce. It needs to bring energy in and it needs to release energy out. The physical human system is a chemical soup that is constantly changing and trading the energy that it receives with the energy that it releases.

Natural food contains chemical energy in the form of vitamins, minerals, and enzymes, which are arranged with specific synergistic co-factors, and organic-activators, such as fiber, phtyonutrients, and unknown markers, that assist with the absorption and release of their energy.

Synthetic vitamins are large doses of isolated, man-made chemicals that are made inside of a laboratory. Unlike natural food, these chemicals, or so-called vitamins, were never alive. They not only do not carry anything even close to living energy patterns, but they also lack the neccessary co-factors needed to activate the energy systems of the body in a balanced and purposeful way, the way that the body is designed to operate.

MANUFACTURING

The manufacturing of synthetic vitamins entails a process known as crystallization. During this process, chemicals, solvents, and heat are used to distill, or reduce down, one specific, isolated chemical structure that is called a "pure" vitamin. During this "purification" process, any and all synergists, which are termed "impurities", are destroyed. There is no longer anything natural in the action of crystalline vitamins - they should more accurately be called drugs.

Synthetic means that a chemist attempted to reconstruct the exact structure of the crystalline molecule by chemically combining molecules from sources other than living foods. For example, Vitamin B1 is made from a coal tar derivative, and Vitamin E is a byproduct of materials used by the Eastman Kodak company to make film. It is not legally neccessary to provide the source from which the synthetic "vitamin" is derived.

These are the vitamins that typically come in high-doses and are easy to identify. Look for these chemcial terms on the label: acetate, bitartrate, chloride, gluconate, hydrochloride, nitrate, succinate, ascorbic acid, and alpha tocopherol.

HIGH DOSAGE VS. HIGH POTENCY

Consumers have been misled into believing that large quantities of dead chemicals are more nutritionally powerful than smaller amounts of high-quality living compounds. The truth is that relatively small amounts of whole-food nutrients, along with their naturally occuring co-factors, are far more potent than high doses of imitation vitamins.

Whole food supplements rarely come in high dosages. In naturally occurring Vitamin C complex, the ascorbic acid portion comprises only about 5% of the whole structure (see Diagram 1). Similarly, alpha tocopherol only comprises a small percentage of the Vitamin E complex (Diagram 2).

One component of the Vitamin C complex, the ascorbic acid portion, is legally allowed to be sold as Vitamin C. Likewise, one small part of the Vitamin E complex, the alpha tocopherol piece, is legally allowed to be sold as Vitamin E.

Taking these isolated fragments into the body is like trying to make a 500-piece jig-saw puzzle with just a few pieces. It is also like eating the shell instead of the nut.

A typical dose of synthetic ascorbic acid, or "vitamin" C is around 500 to 1,000 milligrams, and comes in a regular tablet that is small enough to swallow. Standard Process has a product called Cataplex C. Cataplex means whole food. The same amount of Cataplex C would be about the size of a baseball, because of the added componenets. That is why their products appear to contain small amounts of vitamins. The amounts appear small, but their structures are bigger and better. One bite-sized tablet of Cataplex C contains only 50 milligrams of ascorbic acid, which is actually less than the RDA (reccomended daily allowance), but also contains hundreds of milligrams of the other co-factors, making it very potent.

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The information in this website may not necessarily be the expressed opinion of Standard Process, Inc. and also may not be substantiated by the FDA. The information presented herein is not intended to be a substitute for appropriate medical care or prescription medications. It is not the desire or intention of this practitioner to diagnose and treat disease, but to support the underlying nutritional debts, deficits, and imbalances of dis-ease. This information is not to be used for self-diagnosis and self-treatment, but for educational purposes only. This information is provided with the understanding that the author is not liable for the misconception or misuse of information included. The author of this manual shall have neither liability nor responsibility to any person or entity with respect to any loss, damage or injury caused directly or indirectly by the information contained in this manuscript.