“Synthetic vitamins replace the living food your body needs to rebuild and repair itself with dead chemicals.” They also decrease normal hormone function because they lack the enzymes and cofactors your body needs. They clog the livers filtration function and hinder its ability to conjugate hormones, as well as promoting estrogen dominance.
“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.”
Remember to keep your liver unclogged as well. You can use some of these methods to aide in detoxifying the liver: “An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away,” Bentonite Clay, and jucing: an orange size slice of beet, 3 stalks of celery, and a pound of carrots in the morning.
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July 13th, 2009 at 9:12 am
Ok so the name of the book is The Female Hormone Journey by Pamela Levin, R.N.
Please feel free to leave your comments on here…I love to know what you all think after reading this.
Thanks,
Sarah
July 13th, 2009 at 9:38 pm
Dearest Sarah, Thank you so much for sharing this very useful insight with us all. What an eye opener…..God bless you.
July 13th, 2009 at 10:57 pm
Thank you for sharing Sarah! I just wished I’d read this before I went to the store yesterday… Vitamins supplements were on my list. Spent long minutes in the store, wondering what to choose, no one was there to help. Now I think I should have dig a little deeper, looking for those whole food supplements. I remember seeing my mum taking this “bulbs” of concentrated radish juice or something similar. Is that what you’re talking about? All these pills are pretending to be “natural”, and you know it’s marketing for most of them and not true… But how to find the right product in the shelf? I am mostly concerned with my iron and magnesium levels. So if you have any more tip…
July 14th, 2009 at 10:36 pm
Well, the best place to get the supplements that are food based is to go to a health food store, such as a whole foods store that sells herbs and all natural things. You will have to ask the people there if they have any food based products. The beets and juicing I was referring to was using fresh vegetables and use a juicing machine to turn it into fresh juice.
July 16th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
While I agree that whole food supplements are often the best choice, I disagree that all synthetic vitamins are the same. I’d love to see some studies done between whole food supplements, standard synthetic vitamins, and chelated versions of those same vitamins and minerals. From personal experience, I have found that the chelated versions of many of these vitamins are absorbed better by my body than the whole food version. My hypothesis is that since my body is so depleted of some of these things, that it cannot convert the whole food as needed; instead, my body needs the chelated version.
In addition, I’ve noticed that cofactors are incredibly important when using any kind of supplement. FE, amino acids appear to work better with certain b vites and vitamin c. Some people are able to absorb the p-5-p version of b versus the regular b6.
Anyway, I got off of on a tangent, but I would love to see some research in this area, especially with people who are deficient in certain vitamins compared to those who are not.