What is a Vitamin?

I have been studying vitamins for years now and really want everyone to understand the
difference between things that are natural (found in nature), and synthetic (not
found in nature), especially when talking about things we ingest into our bodies. Many
people at the seminars and in e-mails ask us about supplementing with vitamins and
minerals. You can't just take a vitamin supplement and think you are getting the full
benefit of the vitamin when it is synthetically produced. One Vitamin B supplement was
tested on pigs and made ALL the pigs sterile! Check out this article and learn what a
vitamin really is and how to get real vitamins and their benefits.
Note: The fat soluble vitamins, A, E, and D are best obtained through fish, raw dairy,
avocado, raw nuts, raw coconut, and clean meats.
I am NOT advocating everything this site endorses but this article is one of the best I
have read in recent years about what makes up a vitamin and how it works in the body.
Here it the article's website location:
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Natural Whole Food Vitamins: Ascorbic Acid Is Not Vitamin C

This will be a short chapter, but after youre finished with it, you will know more about
vitamins than 95% of clinical nutritionists, doctors, supplement sales force, or

bodybuilders. If that sounds arrogant or overstated, it really isnt my fault. Im just a

messenger; a purveyor of information. Either Im right or the 95% are right; cant be
both.
Without further ado, heres the kernel: ascorbic acid is not vitamin C. Alpha tocopherol is
not vitamin E. Retinoic acid is not vitamin A. And so on through the other vitamins. Vast
sums of money have been expended to make these myths part of Conventional
Wisdom. If you have several college degrees and all this is news to you, dont feel bad.
Unless you think your education ended at Commencement. Which is generally true.
WHEELS WITHIN WHEELS
Vitamins are not individual molecular compounds. Vitamins are biological complexes.
They are multi-step biochemical interactions whose action is dependent upon a number
of variables within the biological terrain. Vitamin activity only takes place when all
conditions are met within that environment, and when all co-factors and components of
the entire vitamin complex are present and working together. Vitamin activity is even
more than the sum of all those parts; it also involves timing.
Vitamins cannot be isolated from their complexes and still perform their specific life
functions within the cells. When isolated into artificial commercial forms, like ascorbic
acid, these purified synthetics act as drugs in the body. They are no longer vitamins, and
to call them such is inaccurate.
A vitamin is a working process consisting of the nutrient, enzymes, coenzymes,
antioxidants, and trace minerals activators.
Royal Lee What Is a Vitamin? Applied Tropology Aug 1956
FORGOTTEN TRAILBLAZER
Dr. Royal Lee was the pioneer researcher in the field of whole food vitamins. For
decades he documented the basic facts summarized in this chapter. His work has never
been scientifically refuted. Anyone who seriously undertakes the study of vitamins today
corroborates Lees work. His story is a fascinating study in itself, a study of indomitable
perseverance in the pursuit of true principles. Jensen tells us that Royal Lees work will
not be appreciated until the next century.
Hasnt happened yet.
Lee felt the full weight of organized drugs/medicine bearing down on him. Reading like
something out of Schindlers List, we learn that the FDA not only persecuted Lee for
challenging the economics of synthetic vitamins, produced by giant drug companies,

but that he was actually ordered by a court to burn all his research of the past 20 years!
Burn his research! When has that ever happened in this country? They didnt even do
that to Larry Flynt.
Going off on a tangent, ever wondered how the FDA attained its present position as
attack dog for the drug companies and food manufacturers? Its another whole story in
itself. The precursor of the FDA was the Bureau of Chemistry. Up until 1912 the Bureau
of Chemistry was headed up by a man named Dr. Harvey W. Wiley. Heres a quote from
Dr. Wiley that illustrates where his interests lay:
No food product in our country would have any trace of benzoic acid, sulfurous acid or
sulfites or any alum or saccharin, save for medical purposes. No soft drink would contain
caffeine or theobromine. No bleached flour would enter interstate commerce. Our foods
and drugs would be wholly without any form of adulteration and misbranding. The
health of our people would be vastly improved and the life greatly extended. The
manufacturers of our food supply, and especially the millers, would devote their
energies to improving the public health and promoting happiness in every home by the
production of whole ground, unbolted cereal flours and meals.
The History of a Crime Against the Pure Food Law, 1912
Now obviously we cant have a dangerous lunatic like this in charge of the public
nutrition, can we? Dr. Wiley actually filed suit against the Coca-Cola company in an
attempt to keep their artificial product out of interstate commerce, and off the market.
Fortunately, Wiley was eventually replaced by a saner individual, more attuned to the
real nutritional needs of the American people, as determined by the experts who knew
what was best for us: the food manufacturers. This was Dr. Elmer Nelson, and in his
words we get an idea of the change in philosophy that marked the transformation of
the Bureau of Chemistry into the FDA:
It is wholly unscientific to state that a well-fed body is more efficiently able to resist
disease than a poorly-fed body. My overall opinion is that there hasnt been enough
experimentation to prove that dietary deficiencies make one susceptible to disease.
Elmer Nelson MD Washington Post 26 Oct 49
Bernard Jensen illustrates how the tobacco industry and the food giants like Coke were
indirectly behind the legal persecution of Royal Lee. Cigarette ads in the 40s and 50s
showed medical doctors promoting the digestive benefits of smoking Camels. Or the

advertising of Coke and other refined sugar foods stating that science has shown how
sugar can help keep your appetite and weight under control. (Empty Harvest)
During this same period, Royal Lee was kept in courts for years, fighting to keep the
right to advertise his vitamin products, because he was a threat to the food
manufacturers. Lee knew they were poisoning the American public. He proved that
refined sugars and devitalized, bleached flours were destroying the arteries and the
digestive system, causing heart disease and cancer.
WHOLE VS. FRACTIONATED
OK, natural vs. synthetic. Lets start with Vitamin C. Most sources equate vitamin C with
ascorbic acid, as though they were the same thing. Theyre not. Ascorbic acid is an
isolate, a fraction, a distillate of naturally occurring vitamin C. In addition to ascorbic
acid, vitamin C must include rutin, bioflavonoids, Factor K, Factor J, Factor P, Tyrosinase,
Ascorbinogen, and other components as shown in the figure below:
_____________________A s c o r b i c A c i d______________
ascorbinogen
bioflavonoids
rutin
tyrosinase
Factor J
Factor K
Factor P
_____________________A s c o r b i c A c i d______________
VITAMIN-C
In addition, mineral co-factors must be available in proper amounts. If any of these parts
are missing, there is no vitamin C, no vitamin activity. When some of them are present,
the body will draw on its own stores to make up the differences, so that the whole
vitamin may be present. Only then will vitamin activity take place, provided that all other

conditions and co-factors are present. Ascorbic acid is described merely as the
antioxidant wrapper portion of vitamin C; ascorbic acid protects the functional parts of
the vitamin from rapid oxidation or breakdown. (Somer p 58 Vitamin C: A Lesson in
Keeping an Open Mind The Nutrition Report)
Over 90% of ascorbic acid in this country is manufactured at a facility in Nutley, New
Jersey, owned by Hoffman-LA Roche, one of the worlds biggest drug manufacturers (1
800 5260189 FREE). Here ascorbic acid is made from a process involving cornstarch and
volatile acids. Most U.S. vitamin companies then buy the bulk ascorbic acid from this
single facility. After that, marketing takes over. Each company makes its own labels, its
own claims, and its own formulations, each one claiming to have the superior form of
vitamin C, even though it all came from the same place, and its really not vitamin C at
all.
FRACTIONATED = SYNTHETIC = CRYSTALLINE = FAKE
The word synthetic means two things:
manmade
occurs nowhere in nature
From the outset, it is crucial to understand the difference between vitamins and vitamin
activity. The vitamin is the biochemical complex. Vitamin activity means the actual
biological and cellular changes that take place when the stage is set for the vitamin
complex to act.
Think of it like gas and a car. Pumping the gas into the tank doesnt necessarily mean
the car is going anywhere. Other conditions and factors must be also present, in order
for activity to occur. The gas line to the carburetor must be clear, the carburetor jets
must be set, there must be an exact mixture of air flow, the ignition must be turned on,
the spark plugs must be clean, the exact amount of gas must reach each spark plug
right before it fires, no gas must be left over in the cylinder after the plug fires. Getting
the idea? If any of this stuff is missing, theres no Activity: the car doesnt run, or at least
not very well.
Amazing as it may sound if youre hearing this for the first time, vitamins are more than
the synthetic fractions we are commonly taught they are. The ascorbic acid you buy at
the grocery store every few weeks, thinking you are buying Vitamin C, is just a chemical
copy of naturally occurring ascorbic acid, which itself is still only a fraction of the actual

Vitamin C. Real vitamin C is part of something living, and as such, can impart life. Your
synthetic, fractionated chemical ascorbic acid never grew in the ground, never saw the
light of day, never was alive or part of anything alive. Its a chemical, a cornstarch
derivative, a sulfuric acid by-product. In your body its just another drug. Synthetic
vitamins have toxic effects from mega-doses and actually can increase the white blood
cell count. Vitamins are only necessary in minute quantities on a daily basis. Whole food
vitamins, by contrast, are not toxic since the vitamin is complexed in its integral working
form, and requires nothing from the body, and triggers no immune response.
DEFICIENCY
Scurvy is a disease caused by vitamin C deficiency. Scurvy is characterized by bleeding
gums, slow wound healing, softening bones, loose teeth, ulcerations of the mouth and
digestive tract, general weight loss and fatigue. From 1650 to 1850 half of all seamen on
transoceanic voyages died of scurvy. It was discovered by ship surgeon Thomas Lind in
the early 1800s that British sailors were spared the disease altogether simply by a diet
rich in citrus fruits. Since limes travelled well, they were the common choice during the
early years, and thus the expression limeys was coined to describe British sailors. It was
later found both at sea and in prison fare that potatoes were equally successful in
preventing scurvy, and much cheaper to obtain. (Lancet. 1842)
We find that there is less than 20 mg of ascorbic acid in a potato. Yet this small amount,
since it is complexed in a food source, is all the body needs not only to prevent scurvy,
but also to cure it, even in its advanced state. Such a remedy is described in detail in
Richard Danas amazing journal Two Years Before the Mast, written in 1840.
Whole food vitamin C as found in potatoes, onions, and citrus fruits is able to quickly
cure any case of scurvy. By contrast, the fractionated chemical ascorbic acid has been
shown to be insufficient in resolving a scurvy condition, simply because it does not act
as a nutrient. (Lancet 1842) Ascorbic acid simply cannot confer vitamin activity, as taught
by the discoverer of vitamin C himself, another Nobel Prize laureate, Dr. Albert SzentGeorgi.
Szent-Georgi discovered vitamin C in 1937. In all his research however, Szent-Georgi
found that he could never cure scurvy with the isolated ascorbic acid itself. Realizing
that he could always cure scurvy with the impure vitamin C found in simple foods,
Szent-Georgi discovered that other factors had to be at work in order for vitamin activity
to take place. So he returned to the laboratory and eventually made the discovery of
another member of the vitamin C complex, as shown in the diagram above: rutin. All the
factors in the complex, as Royal Lee and Dr. Szent-Georgi both came to understand,
ascorbic acid, rutin, and the other factors, were synergists: co-factors which together

sparked the functional interdependence of biologically related nutrient factors. (Empty

Harvest p120) The term wheels within wheels was used to describe the interplay of cofactors.
Each of the other synergists in the C complex has a separate function:
P factors for blood vessel strength,
J factors for oxygen-carrying capacity of red cells,
tyrosinase as an essential enzyme for enhancing white blood cell effectiveness.
Ascorbic acid is just the antioxidant outer shell the protector of all these other
synergists so that they will be able to perform their individual functions.
Now I can hear you asking, what about Linus Pauling, double Nobel Prize laureate, and
his lifetime espousal of mega dosing on ascorbic acid up to 10 grams per day. He lived
to be 93. Are we saying that he took a synthetic vitamin all that time? Yes, thats exactly
right. Bernard Jensen suggests that ascorbic acid has an acidifying effect in part of the
digestive tract, making an unfriendly environment for viruses, Candida, and pathogenic
bacteria. Paulings good health was not the result of synthetic vitamin activity. Good
genetics and maintaining an internal bio terrain not conducive to inflammation are likely
what brought longevity to Linus Pauling. He eventually died of cancer at 93, but then
who wants to live forever?
Dr. Royal Lees phrase biological wheels within wheels always comes up in any
discussion of whole food vitamins. Essentially it means that individual synergists cannot
function as a vitamin in a chemically isolated form, like ascorbic acid. Vitamins are living
complexes which contribute to other higher living complexes like cell repair, collagen
manufacture, and maintenance of blood circulation. Ascorbic acid is not a living
complex. It is a copy of a part of a living complex known as vitamin C. Ascorbic acid is a
fractionated, crystalline isolate of vitamin C.
Why are you a high school graduate or a college graduate or a doctor, and you dont
know this? Because drug manufacturers like things clean and simple and cheap to
produce. To this simple fact add the politics which always comes into play when anyone
mentions the word billions, and you are beginning to get the idea about where to
begin your investigation. Burned his research???

DIETARY SOURCES
Most vitamins cannot be made by the body. They must be taken in as food. The best
sources then are obviously whole foods, rich in vitamins. Because of soil depletion,
mineral depletion, pesticides, air pollution, and erosion, it is common knowledge that
foods grown in American soil today have only a fraction of the nutrient value of 50 years
ago. That means a fraction of the vitamins and minerals necessary for normal human cell
function. Royal Lee described the American diet as the cultivation and production of
devitalized foods. Dr. Weston Price describes these empty products as the foods of
commerce. Think its gotten better or worse since their time? Thus the necessity for
supplementation.
Vitamins and minerals are not functionally separable. They make each other work.
Example: vitamin D is necessary for the body to absorb calcium. Copper is necessary for
vitamin C activity. And so on. Mineral deficiencies can cause vitamin deficiencies, and
vice versa. Epidemic mineral deficiency in America is a well-documented result of
systematic soil depletion. (See Minerals chapter: thedoctorwithin.com)
So that is the other prime difference between whole food vitamins and synthetics: whole
food vitamins contain within them many essential trace minerals necessary for their
synergistic operation. Synthetic vitamins contain no trace minerals, relying on, and
depleting, the bodys own mineral reserves.
FUNNY FARMS
Following the German agricultural methods of Von Liebig in the mid-1800s, American
farmers found that NPK (nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium) was all that was
necessary for crops to look good. (Frost p7) As long as NPK is added to the soil, crops
can be produced and sold year after year from the same soil. They look OK. But the
trace minerals vital for human nutrition are virtually absent from most American soil
after all these years. Many of these minerals, such as zinc, copper, and magnesium, are
necessary co-factors of vitamin activity. Depleted topsoil is one simple, widespread
mechanism of both vitamin and mineral deficiency in American produce today. This
doesnt even take into account the tons of poisonous herbicides and pesticides dumped
on crops. According to the UN, two million tons of pesticides are used worldwide
annually. (Jensen, p69)
American agri-business has one motive: profit. Such a focus has resulted in an output of
empty produce and a nation of unhealthy people. The earths immune system is its soil.
To be vital and capable of growing vital foods, soil must be rich in both minerals and
soil-based organisms life forms. Healthy produce naturally resists insects. Insects are

like bad bacteria in the body: they are attracted to diseased tissue, though they do not
cause it.
THE FOODS OF COMMERCE
And were still only talking about people who actually eat raw fruits and vegetables,
which is a minority. Processed food composes the majority of what most Americans eat.
The only nutrients in most processed foods are enriched and fortified as described
below.
When a doctor says that food supplements are all unnecessary because we can get
everything we need from our food, that doctor is lacking basic information published
and agreed upon by his own peers. Whether or not we need supplementation is no
longer an issue, except for one who is totally out of touch. The issue is what kind and
how much. Vitamin and mineral deficiency can be tagged to practically ANY disease
syndrome known to man. DW Cavanaugh, MD of Cornell University actually concluded
that There is only one major disease, and that is malnutrition. (Jensen, p8) Malnutrition
of the affluent is the natural result of the foods of commerce.
WEBSURFING
The best vitamins are called whole food vitamins. It will be difficult finding this out on
the Internet, however, because the Web is dominated by mainstream nutritional theory,
which means pharmaceutical underwriting. In the area of vitamins, the Internet is 99%
marketing; 1% actual information. But then again, this isnt Mission Difficult. This is
Mission Impossible, Mr. Hunt.
There are about 110 companies who sell vitamins in the US. Less than 5 of them use
whole food vitamins. The reason is simple: whole food vitamins are expensive to make.
A few of the largest pharmaceutical firms in the world mass produce synthetic vitamins
for the vast majority of these 110 vitamin companies, who then put their own label on
them, and every company claims theirs is the best! Its ridiculous! Americans spend over
$9 billion per year for synthetic vitamins. (Frost p2)
Whole food vitamins are obtained by taking a vitamin-rich plant, removing the water
and the fiber in a cold vacuum process, free of chemicals, and then packaging for
stability. The entire vitamin complex in this way can be captured intact, retaining its
functional and nutritional integrity. (DE Cava p.23.) Upon ingestion, the body is not
required to draw on its own reserves in order to complete any missing elements from
the vitamin complex.

Mainstream marketing of vitamins and minerals has successfully created the myth that
vitamins and minerals may be isolated from each other, that correct amounts may be
measured out, and then we can derive total benefit from taking these fractionated
chemical creations. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Vitamins and minerals, and
also enzymes, work closely together as co-factors for each others efficacy. If one part is
missing, or in the wrong form or the wrong amount, entire chains of metabolic
processes will not proceed normally. Result: downward spiraling of health, probably
imperceptible for long periods of time.
MARKETING AND PROMOTION
What is the marketing philosophy behind the prevalence of the type of synthetic
vitamins available in the supermarket and mall vitamin stores? Simple: profit above all
else. Once the public is shown that vitamin supplementation is necessary, the rest is
marketing. Marketing is the art of persuading by suspending logic and twisting data into
junk science. Example: whats the actual difference in composition between Wheaties
and Total, two cereals put out by the same company? Total is advertised as being much
more nutrient-rich than ordinary Wheaties. Look at the labels. What justifies the extra
$1.30 for a box of Total? Answer: 1.5 worth of synthetic vitamins sprayed over the
Wheaties. Thats it! Thats what vitamin enriched always means. The other trick word is
fortified. Generally, that means that the food itself is devoid of nutrients or enzymes,
so they tried to pump it up a little with some vitamins. Cheap synthetic vitamin sprays
are all that is required for the manufacturer to use labels like enriched and fortified.
These words are red flags if a food needs to be fortified or enriched, you can bet it was
already dead.
The mega-vitamin theory doesnt really hold when it comes to synthetics: If A Little Is
Good, More Is Better. Macro doses of vitamin E, and also vitamin D have been shown to
decrease immune function significantly. (DE Cava) It stands to reason. Vitamins by
definition are necessary in phenomenally small doses. The discoverer of thiamine, a B
vitamin, and the man who came up with the word vitamin, Dr. Casimir Funk, has this to
say about synthetics:
Synthetic vitamins: these are highly inferior to vitamins from natural sources, also the
synthetic product is well known to be far more toxic.
Nutrition authority DE Cava describes it: Natural food-source vitamins are enzymatically
alive. Man-made synthetic vitamins are dead chemicals.
The Real Truth About Vitamins p 209

Oxymoron: military intelligence, rap music, synthetic vitamins.

The marketing of fractionated crystalline synthetic vitamins has been so successful that
most nutritionists and doctors are unaware that there is something missing from these
vitamins. Vitamin manufacturers compete for customers with identical products they
all bought their synthetic vitamins from the same couple of drug companies. To
differentiate their product, each makes claims of high potency. Our vitamins are higher
potency than theirs, etc. The point is, the higher the potency, the more the drug like
effects are present. Natural whole food vitamins are very low potency. Remember the
20mg of vitamin C in a potato that was able to cure a patient of scurvy? That was low
potency. Low potency is all we need. Low potency is enough to bring about vitamin
activity. High potency overshoots the mark the chemical is very pure and refined, like
the difference between white sugar and the type of sugar thats in an apple.
THE MILLIGRAM GAME
Generally speaking, if milligrams are being discussed at length, the author has no clue
about vitamins. Synthetic vitamins are refined, high potency chemicals, and therefore
may be accurately measured in milligrams, just like drugs. This has nothing to do with
vitamin activity or nutrition, except in a negative way.
HALF THE STORY
The same type of incomplete action can be seen with any synthetic vitamin. Lets take
beta carotene for a minute, which the body can turn into vitamin A. Now youll
remember that vitamin A is necessary for good eyesight, DNA synthesis, and protects
cells from free radicals. A study reported in Apr 94 in the NEJM of some 30,000 Finnish
subjects showed conclusively that synthetic vitamin A had no antioxidant effect
whatsoever. A true antioxidant helps to protect heart muscle, lungs, and artery surfaces
from breaking down prematurely. In this study, the subjects who received the synthetic
beta carotene actually had an 8% higher incidence of fatal heart attacks, strokes, and
lung cancer than those who got the placebo (sugar pill). Stands to reason: the synthetic
brought no vitamin activity to the tissues that needed it. As a dead, purified chemical
introduced into the body, the synthetic further stressed the immune system, the liver,
and the kidneys which all had to try to break down this odd chemical and remove it
from the body. It would be bad enough if they were harmless, but synthetic vitamins
actually have a net negative effect.
VITAMIN A
was first discovered in 1919. By 1924, it had been broken down and separated from its
natural whole food complex: purified. By 1931, LA Roche one of the largest
pharmaceutical companies in the world, even today had succeeded in synthesizing

vitamin A. That means they had created a purely chemical copy of a fraction of naturally
occurring vitamin A. Naturally occurring vitamin A is found associated with an entire
group of other components:
Retinols
Retinoid
Retinal
Carotenoids
Carotenes
Fatty acids
Vitamin C
Vitamin E
Vitamin B
Vitamin D
Enzymes
Minerals
Vitamins and Minerals Somer 1992
Isolated from these other factors, vitamin A is a fraction which cannot perform its
biological functions. Taken as a synthetic, it must then draw on this list of resources
already in the body in order to complete its make-up. Whole food vitamin A, by
contrast, is already complete and ready to go.
Most synthetic vitamin A consists only of retinal, retinol, or retinoic acid. The wellpublicized potential for toxicity with mega doses of vitamin A involves one of these
three. Vitamin A toxicity, known as hypervitaminosis, always results from an excess of
synthetic, purified vitamin A, and never from whole food vitamin A. (DE Cava, p 86)
Effects of vitamin A toxicity include:

 tumor enhancement
joint disorders
osteoporosis
extreme dryness of eyes, mouth and skin,
enlargement of liver and spleen
immune depression
birth defects
Beta carotene
is a precursor the body can convert to vitamin A. Unfortunately, as a supplement,
synthetic beta carotene is usually stabilized in refined vegetable oils. In this trans fatty
acid form, oxidation occurs and the chemically pure beta carotene can no longer act as
a nutrient, because it was changed. Almost all synthetic beta carotene is produced by
the Swiss drug giant Hoffman-LA Roche. This form can no longer be converted to
vitamin A. The best it can be is worthless, and the worst is toxic.
Natural vitamin A and beta carotene are well known as immune boosters and cancer
fighters, in their role as antioxidants. Synthetic vitamin A by contrast has actually
brought about significant increases in cancer. The same Finnish study we saw above
provided smokers with large doses of synthetic beta carotene. Lung cancer incidence
increased 18%! (NEJM Apr 94 The Alpha Tocopherol Beta Carotene Cancer Prevention
Study Group)
These findings were corroborated two years later in another study written up in Lancet.
Pharmacologic doses of synthetic beta carotenes were found to block the antioxidant
activity of the other 50 naturally occurring carotenoids in the diet. Anti-cancer activity
was thus blocked by the synthetic. (Lancet 1996)
With the vast outpouring of wrong information about vitamins A and C, the findings of a
1991 article in Health Counselor are no surprise: 50% of Americans are deficient in
vitamin A and 41% are deficient in vitamin C.
Synthetic vitamins cannot prevent deficiencies.

FAKE VITAMIN B
In one experiment, synthetic vitamin B (thiamine) was shown to render 100% of a group
of pigs sterile! 100% would be considered a significant finding. (Dr. Barnett Sure, Journ
Natr 1939) Perhaps the fact that synthetic vitamin B comes from coal tar, maybe that has
something to do with it, you think? Then theres vitamin B12, which comes from
activated sewage sludge. (Frost p 60) Been shooting blanks since you started on those
multis?
For the licensed dieticians and clinical nutritionists reading this in disbelief because it is
too unscientific, consider the way Theron Randolph MD delineated between natural
and synthetic:
A synthetically derived substance may cause a reaction in a chemically susceptible
person when the same material of natural origin is tolerated, despite the two substances
having identical chemical structures. The point is illustrated by the frequency of clinical
reactions to synthetic vitamins especially vitamin B1 and C when the [same] naturally
occurring vitamins are tolerated.
Always keep this idea in mind when confronted with the marketing hook bioidentical.
IRRADIATION
According to Los Angeles naturopath, Dr. Jack Singh, all commercial lecithin in
supplements, as well as most vitamin D, comes from irradiated vegetable oils. Thats
rancid, oxidizing trans fatty acids! A birthday party of free radicals. This is the precise
mechanism for arterial wall breakdown prior to plaque deposits, then arteriosclerosis,
then heart disease. I thought we were supposed to be taking vitamins to stay healthy!
LOST HORIZON
Why is this information so difficult to find? Its in none of the alternative health zines,
or any of the mainstream media. Alternative-Lite guru Julian Whittaker, in his summer
1998 newsletter actually had the temerity to state outright Synthetic vitamins and
whole food vitamins are identical. Im sure his synthetic vitamin company and all its
retailers were reassured by this incredibly arrogant and flagrantly inaccurate
pronouncement. But who is objecting? Only those clients of the 5 companies who know
enough to take whole food vitamins, because they have become educated to realize the
difference. These are the vast minority, having no control of the media.
Royal Lee and Harvey Wiley lost. Nobody knows where they are today, except we few.
This is no accident. What everybody does know is Pepsi and Viagra and Wonder Bread

and prednisone and Double Whoppers with Cheese and Zantac and Baskin-Robbins and
Longs Drug Store. And grocery store vitamins: synthetic vitamins. Thats America, today
as the product of yesterday. Control of information in America today is one of the most
sophisticated systems of influence ever devised. The simple ideas contained in this
chapter are simply not available to the mass consciousness. The documentation is out
there, but you really have to dig.
100 years ago if a medical doctor saw a case of cancer he would call all his colleagues to
come and have a look, telling them it was unlikely they would see another case, as
cancer was so rare. People rarely died of heart attacks; in fact, the term heart attack itself
didnt even exist. There was no incidence at all of atherosclerosis. Diabetes was
practically unheard of. What did they eat? Fruits, vegetables, meat, butter, and lard. But
none of it was processed with drugs and chemicals.
Today one in three dies of cancer. One in two dies of heart disease. Diabetes is the
seventh leading cause of death in the U.S. (Vital Statistics) For anyone born after 2003,
there is a one in 3 chance of Type 2 diabetes. Is that progress? If you are a food
manufacturer it is, and especially if you are a drug manufacturer. In 2007 the WHO
ranked the US as #39 in the world in infant mortality. Male sperm count is less than 20%
of what it was in 1929. (1981 University of Florida report, Natural vs. Synthetic) Infant
mortality is up; birth defects are up. We spend $1.5 trillion per year for health care, most
of which goes for administration and executive salaries. Who are the largest advertisers
for TV and the printed media? Right: drug companies and food manufacturers. Do they
want to keep the ball rolling? You bet. Will they kill you to do it? You bet. Do they want
people to take charge of their own health by natural inexpensive foods and
supplements? Negative. A cure for cancer has been right around the corner since
Nixon. People are starting to ask questions; theyre less inclined to believe the slick ads
coming every 10 minutes on TV and in Newsweek.
Perhaps Hippocrates did not envision doctors as detail men or drug reps. He most likely
thought like Henry Bieler, MD:
Nature, if given the opportunity is always the greatest healer. It is the physicians role to
assist in this healing, to play a supporting role.
Finding the Right Cure for You
So what do you do? Well, you may now have some insight that your vitamin needs are
not being met by the Walgreens generics. Wallach used to talk about expensive urine
from these unmetabolized grocery store synthetic placebos.

The water soluble vitamins are best obtained through organic produce grown in
mineral-rich soil. The best supplements in this category are the top-shelf green foods,
like David Sandovals Best of Greens, and its equivalents.
The fat soluble vitamins, A, E, and D are best obtained through fish, raw dairy, avocado,
raw nuts, raw coconut, and clean meats. High end supplements like Udos Choice, MOR,
and Nordic Naturals can round out your EFA requirements
Beyond this its MLM marketing roulette, and if you cant spot the mark in the first 5
minutes, baby, its you.
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