 
WHOLE FOODS VS SYNTHETIC SUPPLEMENTS
Most nutritional supplements are manufactured synthetically.
This means they are fractions of whole foods or minerals and lack
co-enzymes, minerals, trace minerals, fats, proteins and other cooperative
nutrients that help digest and assimilate the food.
The extraction process for most synthetic supplements
use chemical solvents and distillation at extremely high temperatures.
These chemical processes isolate the vitamin form their natural
state, destroying needed enzymes and may leave toxic residues. The
ability for different individuals to assimilate the synthetic vitamins
varies dramatically. Although some individuals may notice no significant
changes, synthetic vitamins can be harmful. They have a drug like
affect. Isolated synthetic vitamins can cause an imbalance of all
other vitamins.
A vitamin is a substance that is contained within
a whole, natural food. Synthetic vitamins are not contained within
the whole food. Many synthetic vitamins are even made from petroleum
byproducts. Whole food contains many known and unknown co-factors
that help the human body assimilate the vitamins and foster good
nutrition.
Nutrients in foods are synergistic. This means that
the sum is greater than the parts and that it is the relationship
between these parts that is the most important. The true potency
of vitamins in their combined effect within the entire vitamin complex.
Each human body is unique and requires not only
a varying amount of essential vitamins, but a varying quantities
of the amino acids, co-enzymes etc. that help that specific individual
to digest and assimilate the nutrition found within the supplement.
By using natural foods and supplements the body can choose to assimilate
what it does and does not need.
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