Vitamin Supplements: Synthetic vs. Natural

Today, let's examine the controversy in the health world about the human body’s reaction to synthetic vs. natural vitamin supplements.

Many authorities argue that the small chemical differences between synthetic and natural vitamin supplements are of no consequence.

However, a number of studies suggest that the human body recognizes the difference and that the body more easily absorbs and assimilates natural forms of vitamins (including A, B-complex, C, D, and E). Thus, the natural forms provide many more benefits where deficiencies and disease are concerned than synthetics.

It just makes common sense that synthetic vitamins wouldn't be as healthy as the real thing, doesn't it?

Not only are synthetic vitamins highly processed, but the "vitamins" coming out of the laboratory no longer contain the micronutrients that accompany them naturally in whole foods.

The synthesized pills lack many important co-factors, including minerals, enzymes, co-enzymes, trace elements, amino acids, proteins, essential fatty acids, and phytonutrients.

Without the important co-factors, can synthetic vitamins possibly have the synergistic, nutritional, and positive health effects of vitamins derived from whole foods?

I think the answer to that one is obvious, don't you?

Get your vitamins from whole, unprocessed foods.

Chet Day
Editor, The Health Circus
http://chetday.com

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