The Supplementation Problem and Our Supplement
Recommendations
We must reverse our prior recommendations about supplements, and we are now recommending synthetic vitamins instead. In the past few years, a lot has changed in manufacture, and it is obvious that the biotechnology industry has made in-roads into supplement manufacture. We previously recommended food-based multi-vitamins on the basis that synthetic vitamins are much harder for the body to absorb, and there is a chance of simply causing stressed kidneys when using high quantities of them. However, there is no good choice for supplementation anymore, so it has become a matter of choosing the lesser of evils. The current situation is that if one does not use the vitamins from the chemical industry, then he must instead use the "food" vitamins from the biotechnology industry, which are considerably worse. While we hope and expect that this will one day change, this is the current deplorable situation.
The most important long-lasting recommendation is to read the ingredient labels, and learn to spot the dangerous ingredients. The following is a list of common vitamin ingredients that should always be avoided:
Yeasts, including brewers yeast.
Algae, such as Spirulina and Chlorella.
Mushrooms and other fungi.
Organs, such as liver and kidneys.
Seaweeds. Kelp is a common addition.
Titanium dioxide
The point is . . . get your vitamins from food. Put foods in your body that give your body plenty of Vitamin C. Let this C be the background or foundation to enduring health. Make one third of your plate some green or high Vitamin C food. That will provide the background that you need. All the minerals you need will come in a delicious meal of a medium sized steak, a lightly stewed spinach, celery, or kale, and a second vegetable, say, sliced tomatoes or sliced sauteed yam.
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Megafood, maker of yeast-based
(fermented) vitamins, partners with Dr. Andrew Weil, which should come as no surprise. Why don't they feature pictures of
the rotting yeast on the label instead?
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We are constantly
asked by readers which vitamins they should use. For years, we have
recommended that people choose food-based vitamins, because they have the
potential to be much safer, and much more readily absorbed in the organic
form. However, we recently re-evaluated the multi-vitamins that are
available, and came to the depressing realization that things have drastically
changed since our original research. The changes in the supplement industry
happened at a very fast pace.
The
food-based vitamins that are currently available are actually worse than their
synthetic counterparts. Almost all of the food-based vitamins that we
recently evaluated were fermented in yeasts and bacteria. Usually these
were genetically engineered yeasts and bacteria to make them toxic enough to
accelerate their pathogenic life processes. This manufacturing is a way
to cheat using bacteria and yeasts to break the foods down instead of using
chemicals. In actuality, neither the process nor the end product is natural
or food-like. The biotechnology industry found a way to trick us all into
making genetic engineering a part of our "natural"
supplementation. We wrote this report because we have had repeated calls
from people who were having allergy problems or sicknesses that increased with
increased multi-vitamin usage. In every case, it was caused by one of the
multi-vitamin products that was allegedly food-based, but which was not
actually made from foods. A diet of yeast will, in fact, attack the
immune system to make both allergies and illnesses worse. These so-called
"multi-vitamins" are worse than no vitamins at all.
"The
food industry has used genetically engineered bacteria and yeasts for more than
20 years to produce vitamins and nutritional supplements."
-- Agricultural Biotechnology, The University of
California
People
are actually ingesting rotten vegetable matter that is produced with
biotechnology assistance, for health benefits. Of course, the companies
have not studied whether this fermentation process produces toxic byproducts,
as most fermentation does, because the priority is profit. Such studies
would actually make them more liable, because until they have evidence that
demonstrates harm, they can simply claim ignorance. The few food-based
multi-vitamin products which did not contain yeast had other questionable
ingredients, such as oyster extract, various algae, and seaweeds. These
items should never be considered foods, and especially not health foods. The
real foods in the "food based" supplements have been replaced with
non-food bottom feeders from the oceans, and pond scum, which are known for a
huge variety of toxins. Some of these vitamins will prove deadly for people
with shellfish allergies, and the cause of death will never be traced to the
vitamins.
We must reverse our prior recommendations about supplements, and we are now recommending synthetic vitamins instead. In the past few years, a lot has changed in manufacture, and it is obvious that the biotechnology industry has made in-roads into supplement manufacture. We previously recommended food-based multi-vitamins on the basis that synthetic vitamins are much harder for the body to absorb, and there is a chance of simply causing stressed kidneys when using high quantities of them. However, there is no good choice for supplementation anymore, so it has become a matter of choosing the lesser of evils. The current situation is that if one does not use the vitamins from the chemical industry, then he must instead use the "food" vitamins from the biotechnology industry, which are considerably worse. While we hope and expect that this will one day change, this is the current deplorable situation.
The
fact that we are reversing our position should help to explain why we are
usually so careful not to make specific supplement recommendations.
Any recommendations that we make can become invalid weeks or months after
making them, and hundreds of thousands of people could have read and acted upon
those recommendations.
The most important long-lasting recommendation is to read the ingredient labels, and learn to spot the dangerous ingredients. The following is a list of common vitamin ingredients that should always be avoided:
Yeasts, including brewers yeast.
Algae, such as Spirulina and Chlorella.
Mushrooms and other fungi.
Organs, such as liver and kidneys.
Seaweeds. Kelp is a common addition.
Titanium dioxide
The point is . . . get your vitamins from food. Put foods in your body that give your body plenty of Vitamin C. Let this C be the background or foundation to enduring health. Make one third of your plate some green or high Vitamin C food. That will provide the background that you need. All the minerals you need will come in a delicious meal of a medium sized steak, a lightly stewed spinach, celery, or kale, and a second vegetable, say, sliced tomatoes or sliced sauteed yam.
Continue reading . . . .
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