If you are one of the millions of Americans who take vitamins daily, you may not get what you think most likely you are taking a synthetic vitamin, like most other people.
And this problem - 90% of synthetic vitamins pass right through you! That's why people are joking about Americans having the most expensive urine in the world.
But for some it is not funny. Studies show that synthetic vitamins can even be harmful.
3 Research
# 1. A study using synthetic beta-carotene and vitamin E has stopped ,
29,000 male smokers received synthetic beta-carotene and synthetic vitamin E. The study stopped with an increase in lung cancer, heart attacks and death. - New England Journal of Medicine 1994
# 2. Congenital defects increased in women on synthetic supplements
22,000 pregnant women received synthetic vitamin A. The study was halted as birth defects increased by 400%. - New England Journal of Medicine 1995
# 3. Men get thickened arteries on synthetic supplements ,
Men who took 500 mg of synthetic vitamin C daily for 18 months showed signs of thickening of the arteries. - Reuters Health March 2000
Zoltan P. Ron, MD, says that until a healthy person dies immediately after using synthetic supplements, "the long-term effects of continuous daily consumption are potentially dangerous."
Reactions include fatigue, memory loss, depression, insomnia, and possible liver damage.
Why did the manufacturers of health products allow this to happen? Perhaps they were carried away by concerns about the shelf life, appearance and taste of the products, the requirements for the machines and production costs. Whatever the reasons, it seems that synthetic vitamins are mostly useless and can even be risky.
How to know if your vitamins are synthetic
1. Look at the names of vitamins and minerals in the “Ingredients” list on the bottle label. (You may need a magnifying glass J.) A vitamin or mineral is synthetic if only its chemical and / or popular name appears, without a source of the plant. , See Sidebar for an example of such names.
2. Synthetic additives also often contain strange ingredients, including:
o Additives: glucose, sucrose, starch, microcrystalline cellulose, etc., to bind or dissolve ingredients or for texture and taste.
o Artificial colors such as FD & C Blue # 2 Lake, or FD & C Red 40
o Preservatives: sorbates (for example, Polysorbate 80), benzoates (for example, sodium benzoate), nitrites (for example, sodium nitrite), sulfites (for example, sulfur dioxide)
The following example highlights strange ingredients. In accordance with FDA requirements, ingredients are listed in order of quantity — the largest amount first.
From the label of a popular synthetic multivitamin seen on TV
Ingredients: calcium carbonate, calcium phosphate, magnesium oxide, potassium chloride, microcrystalline cellulose, ascorbic acid (vitamin C), gelatin, starch, DL-tocopheryl acetate (vitamin E), crospovidone, hydroxypropyl methylcellulose, niacinamide, zinc oxide, calcium pantothenate, Glucose, silicon dioxide, titanium dioxide, magnesium sulfate, magnesium stearate, pyridoxine hydrochloride (vitamin B6), sucrose, cuprin oxide, riboflavin (vitamin B2), beta carotene, triethyl citrate, thiamine mononitrate (vitamin B1), vitamin A, lactose, polysorbate 80 , Chromium Chloride, Borat, Folic acid, Potassium Iodide, Sodium Molybdate, Sodium Selenate, Biotin, Cyanocobalamin (Vitamin B12), Sodium Metavanadate, Nickel Sulfate, Phytonadione (Vitamin K), FD & C Blue # 2 Lake, FD & C Red 40 Lake, FD & C Yellow 6 Lake. (“Strange” ingredients are highlighted in red.)
Your vitamins are not synthetic if they are listed with the entire food source.
For example, “Vitamin C (from Kamukamu fruit)” indicates that you are getting vitamin C along with other nutrients with which it lives in all fruits. Not only isolated vitamin C made in the lab. Or "Vitamin A (100% in the form of Dunaliella beta-carotene)" - this means that Dunaliella algae is a source of vitamin A in this supplement. Most of the ingredients in the overall dietary supplement are listed using the names of actual fruits or vegetables, such as blueberries or broccoli.
Decision
There is a new class of supplements called “whole food supplements” - single whole food vitamins (for example, vitamin C from spikes or kamukamu) or whole foods.
The ingredients in all nutritional supplements are mostly concentrated forms of vegetables, fruits, herbs, or spices, which are known to be rich sources of vitamins and other known nutrients. Usually they do not contain artificial colors, preservatives and other toxic additives. All food ingredients naturally contain hundreds of “cofactors” (other nutrients) that the body must absorb vitamins.
When cofactors are absent, as they are contained in synthetic vitamins, the body can treat the vitamin as a foreign substance and eliminate it. Or he can capture the necessary cofactors from his organs, bones, muscles, and other tissue. In other words, your body begins to eat. Over time, it depletes the body, causing disease and degeneration.
“Whole food ingredients naturally contain hundreds of“ cofactors ”that the body needs to absorb vitamins.”
