“synthetic vitamins are dead chemical models of living foods. They are put together in laboratories of two chemical companies and relabeled to produce the plethora of products, animal byproducts, rocks, stones, shells and metals. As such, they do not have the same properties as whole, live vitamin complexes as food in nature. In contrast, whole food vitamin complexes as found in nature are living, functional mechanisms which work together synergistically. Therefore they work in ways that are not revealed by mere chemical analysis of their components.”

An example would be Vitamin C. The synthetic C is only one part of the whole C complex. Many of you know it as ascorbic acid. It is manufactured by boiling corn syrup and sulfuric acid together. This type of Vitamin C is know to cause genetic damage at a dose of 500 mg a day for a 6 week period. Crazy, huh?

B1 for example in the synthetic form can irritate your peripheral nerve plates and create toxic symptoms. The human body is not made to process or ingest more then 5 milligrams of B1 per day. A study was conducted on rats showing 2nd generation sterility after using a dosage that was prorated for their size. Symptoms such as fast pulse, tremors, irritability and weakness can result from an over dose of synthetic B vits.

Using synthetic vitamins can cause you the have further deficiencies over time when you ingest one isolated part of the vitamin. “Whether it’s synthetic C, B, E, or some other vitamin, it requires your body to borrow the other missing parts from it’s own reserves.” Synthetics also lack the trace minerals (found in whole foods), thus failing in it’s metabolic function. Vitamins need to contain all their naturally occurring advocators, including enzymes coenzymes, and trace minerals to full fill their biological function. With out them they are useless, unless they can gather them from your body’s existing reserves. This can be very strenuous on your body’s adrenal glad. When looking at the short term, you may feel better and more energized because they stimulate the body at the beginning, but the long term will result in deficiencies and exhaustion.

At last they can trick the body into thinking they are the real thing, thus taking up space and blocking real food from being used properly.

Now how do we solve the problem?

“Choose whole foods and whole food supplements. That way your body can selectively absorb what it needs and choose the excrete what it does. With synthetic vitamins your body looses its choice; it is required to somehow process the chemicals, and that processing can lead to chemical imbalances or toxic overdoes.”