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“Synthetic supplements are just poor imitations of what nature can make naturally.” … Ryan Martin
If you have ever consumed vitamins in your life – and two-thirds of us have, according to health surveys – you have probably unknowingly bought into one of the most enduring and toxic myths to ever shape the public health consciousness.
You have been led to believe that the vitamin supplements you take to protect your body against illness and disease are both safe and effective. You have been told that these supplements are nature’s own natural ingredients packaged in condensed form as a prescription for your wellness.
You may even feel that the £385 million spent each year alone on nutritional supplements is money well invested to protect public health.
Well in this article and throughout my website you will learn how these and many other cherished ideas we hold about nutrition are a dangerous collection of myths and half-truths based on adherence to a synthetic belief system that has led our culture far away from nature and it’s potential for bestowing health and healing.
The primary problem is that most vitamins sold throughout the world are synthetics, created in laboratories owned or controlled by pharmaceutical companies, and these companies apply the same manufacturing standards and processes to vitamins that the do to prescription and over–the-counter drugs. At least 95 percent of all vitamins manufactured today contain some synthetic ingredients, according to the Organic Consumer’s Association.
Manufactures maintain that their synthetic chemical vitamins concocted in laboratories are identical and just as effective as the naturally occurring vitamins produced in plants by nature.
Synergy means two or more chemicals or compounds interacting to produce effects more powerful than any one can create by itself. Synergy is a fundamental principle of nature, and a fact that the prevailing synthetics belief system, with its emphasis on isolating “magic bullet” molecules, chooses to ignore at our peril.
In fact, no human can survive solely on isolated, synthetic nutrients; we must eat foods created by nature in order to survive.
Scientist have never successfully created an apple from scratch in a laboratory. Only nature has proven it’s ability to create apples.
By the same token, neither can science create synthetic nutrients that exactly duplicate or replace naturally occurring nutrients. It is this attitude from scientist that concerns me as the consequences will impact on your health, when scientific arrogance in the form of a synthetics belief system attempts to impose it’s will, fuelled by inaccurate assumptions, as a substitute for the experience and wisdom of nature.
The “magic bullet” mindset that remains the centre of our cultures synthetics belief system is a fatally flawed point of view.
Consumer safety also figures prominently in the superiority of natural versus synthetic supplements. Besides the potentially toxic synthetic colourings (extracted from coal tar), synthetic flavourings, and other additives placed into “nutritional” supplements, many manufactures of soft-gel vitamins add partially hydrogenated soybean oil. The same oils that have been linked as a cause of cardiovascular disease, strokes, and heart attacks are sometimes added to vitamins sold In health food stores.
A June 2009 article in the journal Clinical Nutrition Insight reviewed a series of studies that used synthetic supplements and concluded that “nutrition researchers have probably oversimplified the complex relationship between diet and cancer.” They have placed too much emphasis on trying to isolate specific bio-active nutrients and not enough attention “to complex mixtures of bioactive compounds.”
In other words, when it comes to disease prevention, synthetics are no substitute for pure foods. This flawed methodology and fixation on isolating nutrients and making synthetic versions of them is like trying to see a flower but only observing a petal.
As for the body’s absorption of natural versus synthetic vitamins, there is once again no contest. Your body knows the difference even though synthetics are designed to try to trick it. Natural nutrients are absorbed readily because our body recognises the naturally occurring compounds as genuine nutrients. Synthetic supplements however are different. 50 percent of every synthetic supplement is automatically rendered useless by the body, leaving only 50 percent available for conversion. Even then there is no guarantee the other half will be converted, that is based solely on the individuals specific resources. Synthetic supplements are just potential sources of “nutrition” if that.
We are a culture awash with myths, misinformation, and misconceptions about the roles that nutrition and supplementation play or should play in our lives.
You may be one of the people who believes we just need to eat a balanced diet, however that is defined. Or you may have accepted without question the advertising claims that all vitamins are created equal in their benefits and vary in effect only with dosage levels. Or perhaps you believe that whatever nature can do, science can or will do able to do better.
My articles are addressed to everyone, whatever belief you hold.
Nature gave us a promise. It was the promise of good health and long life if we use its nutrients wisely as our medicine. The betrayal of this promise by the synthetics belief system has been one of civilisations crowning disappoints.
With the emergence of more and more people, nutritionist, personal trainers etc promoting the benefits of Organic whole foods and 100 percent natural supplements hopefully we can bring our relationship to nature back into its rightful and proper balance, so that access to health-giving nutrients and supplementation once again becomes our birthright.
The only supplements I recommend to my clients are one’s that I would or have taken myself. They are highly bio-available and of the highest possible quality in the market, and they work because of this.
Quality is everything and like most things, you get what you pay for.
Health and Happiness
Ryan
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