A Vitamin is....

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A vitamin is

" a working process consisting of the nutrient, enzymes, coenzymes,

antioxidants, and trace minerals activators. "

- Royal Lee " What Is a Vitamin? " Applied Trophology Aug 1956

 

Vitamins are not individual molecular compounds. Vitamins are

biological complexes. They are multi-step biochemical interactions

whose action is dependent upon a number of variables within the

biological terrain. Vitamin activity only takes place when all

conditions are met within that environment, and when all co-factors

and

components of the entire vitamin complex are present and working

together. Vitamin activity is even more than the sum of all those

parts; it also involves timing.

 

Vitamins cannot be isolated from their complexes and still perform

their specific life functions within the cells. When isolated into

artificial commercial forms these purified

synthetics act as drugs in the body. They are no longer vitamins,

and

to call them such is inaccurate.

 

Over 90% of ascorbic acid in this country is manufactured at a

facility

in Nutley, New Jersey, owned by Hoffman-LaRoche, one of the world's

biggest drug manufacturers(1 800 526 0189).

 

Here ascorbic acid is made from a process involving gmo cornstarch

and volatile acids.

 

Most U.S. vitamin companies then buy the bulk ascorbic acid from

this single facility. After that, marketing takes over.

 

Each company makes its own labels, its own claims, and its own

formulations, each one claiming to

have the superior form of vitamin C, even though it all came from

the

same place.

 

 

There are about 110 companies who sell vitamins in the US. Less than

5

of them use whole food vitamins.

 

The reason is simple: whole food vitamins are expensive to make.

 

A few of the largest pharmaceutical firms in the world mass produce

synthetic vitamins for the vast

majority of these 110 " vitamin " companies, who then put their own

label

on them, and every company claims theirs is the best. Americans

spend over $9 billion per year for synthetic vitamins.

(Frost p2)

 

Whole food vitamins are obtained by taking a vitamin-rich plant,

removing the water and the fiber in a cold vacuum process, free of

chemicals, and then packaging for stability.

 

The entire vitamin complex in this way can be captured intact,

retaining its " functional and nutritional integrity. " (DeCava p.23.)

 

Upon ingestion, the body is not required to draw on its own reserves

in

order to complete any missing elements from the vitamin complex.

 

Mainstream marketing of vitamins and minerals has successfully

created

the myth that vitamins and minerals may be isolated from each other,

that correct amounts may be measured out,and then we can derive

total benefit from these synthetic chemical creations.

Nothing could be farther from the truth. Vitamins and minerals, and

also enzymes, work closely together as co-factors for each other's

efficacy. If one part is missing, or in the wrong form or the wrong

amount, entire chains of metabolic processes will not proceed

normally.

 

Result:

 

downward spiralling of health, probably imperceptible for long

periods

of time.

 

What is the marketing philosophy behind the prevalence of the type

of

synthetic vitamins available in the supermarket and mall vitamin

stores?

 

Simple: profit above all else.

Once the public is shown that vitamin supplementation is necessary,

the

rest is marketing. Marketing is the art of persuading by suspending

logic and twisting data into junk science.

 

Example: what's the actual difference in composition between

Wheaties

and Total, two cereals put out by the same company? Total is

advertised

as being much more nutrient-rich than " ordinary " Wheaties.

 

Look at the labels. What justifies the extra $1.30 for a box of

Total?

 

Answer: 1.5¢ worth of synthetic vitamins sprayed over the Wheaties.

That's it! That's what " vitamin enriched " always means. The other

trick

word is " fortified. "

 

Generally that means that the food itself is devoid of nutrients or

enzymes, so they tried to pump it up a little with some " vitamins. "

 

Cheap synthetic vitamin sprays are all that is required for the

manufacturer to use labels like " enriched " and " fortified. " These

words

are red flags –

if a food needs to be fortified or enriched, you can

bet it was already dead.

 

.. The discoverer of thiamine, a B vitamin, and the man who came up

with

the word vitamin , Dr. Casimir Funk, has this to say about

synthetics:

 

" Synthetic vitamins: these are highly inferior to vitamins from

natural

sources, also the synthetic product is well known to be far more

toxic. "

 

Nutrition authority DeCava describes it:

" Natural food-source vitamins are enzymatically alive.

Man-made synthetic vitamins are dead chemicals. "

--The Real Truth About Vitamins p 209

 

Oxymorons: military intelligence, rap music, synthetic vitamins.

 

The marketing of fractionated crystalline synthetic vitamins has

been

so successful that most nutritionists and doctors are unaware that

there is something missing from these " vitamins. "

 

Vitamin manufacturers compete for customers with identical products –

 

they all bought their synthetic vitamins from the same couple of

drug

companies.

 

To differentiate their product, each makes claims of " high potency. "

Our vitamins are higher potency than theirs, etc.

The point is, the higher the potency, the more the druglike effects

are

present.

 

 

Over 90% of ascorbic acid in this country is manufactured at a

facility

 

in Nutley, New Jersey, owned by Hoffman-LaRoche, one of the world's

 

biggest drug manufacturers(1 800 526 0189).

 

Here synthetic ascorbic acid is made from a process involving

cornstarch and volatile acids.

 

Most U.S. vitamin companies then buy the bulk ascorbic acid from

this

single facility.

 

After that, marketing takes over. Each company makes its own labels,

its own claims, and its own formulations,

each one claiming to have the superior form of vitamin C, even

though

it all came from the same place.

 

 

According to Los Angeles naturopath, Dr. Jack Singh, all commercial

lecithins in supplements, as well as most vitamin D, comes from

irradiated vegetable oils.

 

That's rancid, oxidizing trans fatty acids!

A birthday party of free radicals.

 

This is the precise mechanism for arterial wall breakdown prior to

plaque deposits, then arteriosclerosis, then heart disease.

 

I thought we were supposed to be taking vitamins to stay healthy.

(1981 University of Florida report, Natural vs. Synthetic) Infant

mortality is up; birth defects are up.

 

Who are the largest advertisers for TV and the printed media? Right:

drug companies and food manufacturers.

 

Do they want to keep the ball rolling? You bet. Will they kill you

to

do it? You bet. Do they want people to take charge of their own

health

by natural inexpensive foods and supplements? Negative.

 

A cure for cancer has been " right around the corner " since Nixon.

People are starting to ask questions; they're less inclined to

believe

the slick ads coming every 10 minutes on TV and in Newsweek

 

Perhaps Hippocrates did not envision doctors as detail men or drug

reps.

 

He most likely thought like Henry Bieler, MD:

Nature, if given the opportunity is always the greatest healer. It

is

the physician's role to assist in this healing, to play a supporting

role.

 

- Finding the Right Cure for You

So what do you do? Well, you now have some insight that your vitamin

 

needs are not being met by the Safeway generics.

 

Wallach used to talk about expensive urine from these unmetabolized

grocery store synthetic placebos.

 

The water soluble vitamins are best obtained through organic produce

grown in mineral-rich soil. The best supplements in this category

are

the top-shelf green foods, like David Sandoval's Best of Greens, and

its equivalents.

 

The fat soluble vitaimins, A, E, and D are best obtained through

fish,

avocado, raw nuts, raw coconut, and clean meats. High end

supplements

like Udo's Choice and a ton of clean algae can round out your EFA

requirements

 

Beyond this it's MLM marketing roulette, and if you can't spot the

mark

in the first 5 minutes, baby, it's you.

 

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