Vitamins

Conventional wisdom says: A wide variety of vitamin supplements are commercially available, and most of them offer our bodies the vitamins and minerals we need for proper nutrition.

Now The Calcium Lie reveals:
Most so-called "vitamins" that are commercially available are synthetically produced drugs, and virtually none of them offer the important "synergistic" benefits to be found in true vitamins that come from whole foods. Some commercially sold vitamin supplements actually strip the body of needed vitamins, such as Vitamin C, that we obtain from natural sources.

Here's some additional information you'll learn about vitamins by reading The Calcium Lie by Dr. Robert Thompson and Kathleen Barnes.

- Without minerals, our body cannot obtain any benefit from vitamins. In 1936, Dr. Charles Northern, an expert on mineral depletion from soil, warned "It is not commonly realized...that vitamins control the body's appropriation of minerals, and in the absence of minerals they have no function to perform. Lacking vitamins, the system can make some use of minerals, but lacking minerals, vitamins are useless."

- Minerals are part of the transport system that brings the vitamins into the cells where they are needed. Minerals are also needed to donate the electrons for all biochemical reactions that vitamins help to take place. Further, vitamins cannot be formed without minerals and trace minerals.

- Just like minerals, the body needs a proper balance of vitamins, and if there is an imbalance, the result can be disease. Getting too much of a single vitamin or mineral can be just as dangerous as getting too little.

- The proper balance of essential minerals is necessary for the proper absorption of vitamins, amino acids and other nutrients.

- Most "vitamins" that are commercial available are not true vitamins at all, but synthetically produced drugs lacking many of the complex and essential components needed by our bodies. These synthetically produced "vitamins" are chemical compounds that do not normally occur in the human body.

- More accurately, a vitamin is a naturally occurring essential nutrient that either the body manufactures or the body derives from food or other sources (such as sunlight in the case of Vitamin D). Vitamins are complex molecules, combinations of enzymes, amino acids and various trace minerals.

- The only vitamins that offer benefits are whole food natural sources of these vitamins, not chemically or even "naturally" derived versions that only contain a part of the complex structure of the whole food nutrients.

- The nutrient components of natural, whole food vitamins work synergistically, so that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Each little component of a vitamin molecule enhances the function of the others.

- Any vitamin you take should be carefully collected from whole foods that have been vine ripened in minerally balanced soil and picked at their nutritional peak. In addition, they should be alcohol extracted and processed without heat, which is a notorious destroyer of these delicate life-sustaining nutrients.

- Many people erroneously believe that their "vitamins" have minerals. Unfortunately, very few "vitamin" supplements have the right minerals or the right kind. They may even have the wrong minerals.

- "Vitamin" C is only one of the multitudes of so-called "vitamins" and their derivatives and combination formulas on the market today that qualify as drugs. They are not natural, no matter what the label says. These are only tiny pieces of the whole food that is the source of vitamins you need, and there is no evidence that pieces of this vitamin C molecule has any of the same effects as whole C molecules

To learn more about vitamins, read The Calcium Lie.