The Father of medicine Hippocrates nailed it on the head when he said ‘Let food be thy medicine, and let medicine be thy food’. Natural whole foods have supplied our bodies with the most therapeutic source of vitamins and minerals since the beginning of time. Think of whole foods as incredible perfect packages of vitamins and minerals that contains all the co factors to allow the most therapeutic and bio available source. Through whole food sources we, obtain the co factors and the different substrates of particular vitamins that our body can breakdown and as simulate. These vitamins and minerals found in whole foods work synergistically together to improve our health and well being, just as nature intended.

Many people today are consuming foods which by pass this transformation process. Many products sold as foods are not really foods. They come to us in forms we cannot assimilate.In many cases eating minerals directly from the ground which have been transformed for man’s use.

Vitamins run the body and are catalysts. Minerals build the body.

 

 

Synthetic vitamins also skip the transformation step…The synthetic vitamin /minerals does not come through plant life it is imperative that our supply of our daily intake of vitamins and minerals come through plant life.

• The majority of commercial vitamin supplements are made up of synthetic vitamins
• Synthetic vitamins do not perform the same functions in your body as vitamins found naturally in whole food
• Many synthetic vitamins deplete your body of other nutrients and tax your kidneys before being excreted through your urine

Receiving sufficient amounts of vitamins and minerals is essential for optimal health and preventing chronic disease states. These nutrients perform thousands of roles in the body,from building muscle, bone and skin, improving your immune system and converting food into energy. Specific nutrient deficiencies such as Scurvy was discovered in 1747 by James Lind when observing poor vitamin C consumption in the British Royal Navy causing bleeding gums and bulging eyes.

Since these early discoveries science has been busy making synthetic vitamins as a prevention method to poor health and chronic diseases. Today the dietary and supplement industry produces an estimate of $82 billion dollars per year globally. In Australia, the most popular supplement is a multivitamin which increase the demand for a ‘once-a-day’ pill that offers every single nutrient known to man. This concept that ‘more is best’ simply does not apply in formulating a therapeutic multi vitamin. With more research indicating synthetic vitamins are linked to many disease states such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, decreased bone health and breast cancer, a resolution to get back to whole food sources needs to be embraced.

As the general population become more aware of nutrient deficiencies in the soil and foods, it would make sense to take a daily multi-vitamin to ensure adequate levels are met. However, instead of looking at the fundamental source of these vitamins and minerals which is food, we are relying on synthetic sources that are made in labs and it is causing many biological problems. Let’s look at Folate for example. Folates are a cluster of reduced molecules that are found in green leafy vegetables and are important for the detoxifying estrogen, DNA synthesis, cellular renewal and red and white blood cell formation to name a few. Folic acid is a fully oxidized synthetic form made in a lab and is found in fortified foods and most multivitamins. The chemical differences have major implications for the bio availability and action performed in the body. There are many advantages in natural folates such as their bio availability is not affected by metabolic defects, they do not affect the 5-methyl tetrahydrofolate (5-MTHF) polymorphism, they reduce the potential for masking symptoms of B12 deficiency and they prevent potential high levels of inactivated folic acid in the body. Inactive folic acid circulating the body’s peripherals can have alarming effects in the body which can lead to anaemia, cardiovascular disease, decreased immunity and increased risk of dementia. On drawing upon this example, we can start to see how supplementing with the wrong forms of synthetic vitamins can be causing more harm to your body and even have adverse affects on the liver.

NATURE’ WAY WHOLE FOOD VITAMINS

Whole-Food based supplements are different. The vitamin content of a whole food vitamin is 100% derived from food sources, with no synthetic or artificial vitamins added. This includes Vitamins from fruits, veggies, herbs and super foods from gardens, orchards, farms and the ocean.
Vitamins from whole foods come with the additional health benefits of other naturally occurring nutrients – including the added micro nutrients, co factors and phytonutrients naturally found in plants and whole foods that work together to provide you a complete health benefit and “whole” vitamin solution.

Man was meant to eat whole foods .Whole foods come from natures garden as nature intended.

References :

https://www.globalhealingcenter.com/natural-health/synthetic-vs-natural-vitamins/

https://www.doctorsresearch.com/articles4.html