What’s Missing In Our Vitamins

This is a follow up to my previous post and was written by someone on my distribution list. It includes info on the nutrient forms in most vitamin/mineral formulas - If you are looking for an alternative to what is typically available, let me know and I will tell you how to get what I take, or look at the information in the previous post-Chris

You are not getting the nutrients you need from today's food. If it is NOT in the soil, it is NOT in your food. And some wonder why their vitality and health has got up and went! When certain minerals are now totally missing from our foods and others have dropped by 80%, no wonder America has dropped to 42% in the world in overall health and longevity. Bottom line: IF you aren't taking supplements in a food form, you are not getting what you need. Synthetic vitamins have been shown to BLOCK certain enzyme reactions that are NEEDED and have been shown to be toxic (no wonder -they are made from petrochemicals)!

Keep in mind the following if you know supplementing is important but you think you will just go down to your local food store and buy a cheap USP (United States Pharmacopeia) vitamin... Most all common VITAMINS are SYNTHETIC and only 10% absorbed (at best). They are made from coal tar (i.e. a toxic petrochemical) and may also contain multiple unknown ingredients such as lead and arsenic from China and other countries (as now the majority of Vitamins A, E and C come from China and few to NO inspections are made of the facilities or containments in their end products).

Regarding most mineral supplements....The large majority of MINERAL supplements on the market today are ground up rocks (the ionic ones are just more finely ground) and are extremely poorly-absorbed - if absorbed at all. A study published in the Journal of Food Chemistry stated that, with the single exception of selenium, less than 10% of the synthetic minerals contained in the most popular brands of multivitamins were in a soluble bio-available form.

Simply put, while synthetic vitamins and mineral salts may be inexpensive, it appears they do not provide effective support to bridging the nutritional gap between what we get in food and what our bodies require from it. Consider the following: Agnes Fay Morgan, Ph.D. reported in SCIENCE that animals on a synthetic vitamin-enriched diet died before animals fed an unprocessed diet. Dr. Paul Yanick states: "In summary, the use of synthetic vitamins jams cellular signals and stimulates false surges of energy." According to Dr. Bruce West, MD, whole-food sourced vitamins and phytochemicals are 100 TIMES more effective than regular vitamin and mineral products...even at mega-dosages. "