Nutrition Response Testing Bozeman

Synthetic vitamins may cause improvement of certain conditions for a short time but the whole complex goes even further. It is now believed that the “unknown” co-factors found in natural vitamins, not found in synthetic forms, act as catalysts which make the vitamins more effective. The reason why synthetic vitamins are so popular is because they are easier and cheaper to manufacture in a lab from petroleum products than to grow and harvest from crops.

Are the vitamins you take causing deficiencies?

Research indicates that synthetic vitamins may actually cause nutritional deficiencies. When you take a synthetic vitamin, it needs the co-factors normally found in the whole food, in order to complete its action. If they are not in the foods you eat, it will draw the co-factors from your body. You may feel good for a while but when the co-factors run out, you will begin to feel worse.

The prolonged action of the synthetics imitates the action of drugs; they over-stimulate rather than feed your body. Science does not even come close to duplicating nature. Many illnesses, pain and suffering are the result of our dietary ignorance.

Synthetic vitamins will never have the effects of natural vitamins simply because they are missing many parts of the whole complex.

Give your body what it needs, it’ll make everything else from that. To sustain good health, your cells must have all the elements they need to perform the jobs of growth and tissue repair in your body. Your body does not need hundreds of vitamins and minerals in order to maintain itself It seems that every month a new miracle vitamin is being touted.

Each cell in your body requires certain nutrients to maintain its basic metabolic function and keep healthy. The body will manufacture everything else from these basic building blocks.

One way to tell if a product is synthetic is to use the word potencies. In reality, high concentrations have nothing to do with potency. A 10 000 mg capsule of Vitamin C may not necessarily be potent at all! Remember, you will never see those concentrations or combinations in nature. They simply do not exist like that except in a bottle manufactured in a lab. Eat food, not chemicals.

The Vitamins in Medicine warns against doses in excess of 10 mg of vitamin B I because they were not metabolized and were excreted unchanged in the urine.

The American Academy of Applied Nutrition found that animals fed enriched bread lived 10% shorter lives than those fed unenriched bread.

The New England Journal of Medicine cited that babies of women who consumed 10,000 I.U of vitamin A from supplements had a 240% increase in birth defects.

The New England Journal of Medicine showed that men taking beta-carotene supplements had an 18% higher incidence of lung cancer, more heart attacks and an 8% higher overall death rate.

These same men who were taking vitamin E supplements had more strokes from bleeding in the brain.

A four year study at Dartmouth showed no colon cancer protection when taking synthetic antioxidant vitamins.

New England Journal of Medicine reports that elderly people taking a synthetic multivitamins did not benefit with their complaints of muscle weakness and physical tiredness.

British Journal of Chemistry and Physiology reports that ascorbic acid (vitamin C) injections did not improve intestinal disease.

A study at the University of California at Berkeley noted that administration of synthetic vitamins to dogs caused a worse state of health than pure starvation.

Journal of Nutrition noted that sterility occurred in rats given synthetic B I vitamins. It also often causes hyperthyroidism according to the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Real vitamins must come from food. Go with the ONLY vitamin company who has ALWAYS used food based nutrients and not synthetic vitamins. Your health depends on it!

“Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favor compared with the products of nature, the living cell of the plant, the final result of the rays of the sun, the mother of all life.” -Thomas Edison