A reader has started a discussion, and I want to continue it here, bit by bit so that everyone can follow it.
The argument was this: “Vitamins are natural substances, right? All animals produce ascorbate acid in the liver/kidney and there is no difference between this and synthetic one. Not the case for all vitamins (i.e. E) but today nothing is pure.”
Answer: Vitamins are natural substances - as long as they are in the plant or in the meat. What you buy in a bottle, is mostly low-quality stuff.
I do think about vitamins as about sugar: Sugar in plants was a nourishing thing - until mankind was able to refine it and eat it in large quantities. Then it became a poison (responsible for heart disease, diabetes, cancer, depression, arthritis, and many more "degenerative" diseases.
you swallow a vitamin pill (aside from that it might not be healthy stuff in the first place), you flush your system with too much good stuff in too short time - and your body has no clue what to do with it. We are supposed to chew and digest food slowly, so the body can deal with what comes. With vitamin pills, we overwhelm and poison out bodies.
Now, I say this with a grain of salt. In deficiencies, and for a limited time, the replacement of vitamins can be a good thing - under supervision of a physician.
But I have seen too many overdosed people - especially the elderly - who take vitamins to make up for lousy nutrition ... and if one pill helps, two or three might help even better ...
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Vitamins
July 6, 2011
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Jul 07, 2011 7:03 AM EDT
Hello On what basis you claim such things ? First, lets acknowledge that food and land today is far from what was there once upon a time. Also, environmental damage is huge, plants are not able to keep it up and become ill, easy pray to predators. We try to fix that, by introducing various chemicals that threat symptoms rather then cause (i.e. Ground up fertilizer etc..). About 'bottle is low-quality stuff', I guess we will never really know for sure, but its not enough to just announce it like that - there are good companies and bad companies. Its up to you to find respectable one, but if you are rally threating some disease, you can see that by outcome sometimes (for instance, 100g of vitamin C during single day will stop any flue comming if taken by specific protocol, if it doesn't, its not vitamin C; you could compare different brands by GI problems, if one supplier makes you take 20g to have flatulance, and other one 10g, you know whos C is winning). As of Vitamin C, it is produced by animals in large doses. Goat makes around 15g per day in non stressed times, while it makes many folds more otherwise. There is no difference between synthetic one and endogenous one or fantastic discoveries like that of Dr. Klenner wouldn't be possible. Irwan Stone postulated that human kind has genetic defect he named hypoascorbia which means we are all deficient in vit. C. Linus Pauling promted the idea and took 18g per day for 40 years, to live 93 years. Also, people tend to eat specific stuff from the raw food, typically those that contain low amounts of vitamins - for instance nobody will consume eyes or brain of animal, something that is regular even today in isolated cultures. Cooking, pesticides, GMO, juicers, you name it... all influence content ones plan or animal is not eaten as soon as it is removed from this world. Sugar - there is refined variety known as honey. Not much difference between it and table sugar when content of ****oses is in question (sure, honey contains some other good stuff, but the sugar content is very high, particularly that of fructose). Nobody says that vitamins are replacement for food. They are supplements, and are appropriate for current civilization status. I don't know who is poisoned by vitamins ever... except maybe rats by megadoses of Vitamin D. See more at http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v07n05.shtml
- majkinetor
Jul 07, 2011 10:35 AM EDT
Sorry for typos and bad spelling. Was in a hurry :)
- majkinetor
Dec 15, 2011 2:11 AM EST
Vitamins plays a vital role in one's health.So I think balanced diet with proper vitamins will prove very handy in maintaining good health. chewing on mint or parsley
- http://www.simplehealthguide.com/herbal-remedies-for-halitosis