The Finnish study published in the New England Journal of Medicine in the spring of 1994 and the Agnes Faye Morgan experiments at the University if California at Berkeley in the 1940s, proved that taking synthetic vitamins is worse than starvation. The synthetic vitamins will kill you quicker. The concept is that most all vitamins are synthetic and made in a laboratory unless they are found in foods. Synthetic vitamins are chemicals and as such cause chemical reactions in the body. They have to be broken down and metabolized by the liver, filtered through the kidneys and excreted. In the Finnish study, people that took synthetic vitamin A and beta-carotene actually had a significant loss of protection from lung cancer, stroke and other forms of death. Remember how it was stated before that vitamins have to have many natural cofactors to be utilized properly in the body and without these cofactors the vitamin becomes ineffective. To add to this argument, Dr. Royal Lee, founder of Standard Process Vitamin Company showed in the 1930’s that although synthetic vitamins have the same molecular structure, they are in fact a mirror image of the natural vitamin. This means that they look identical in every way but are really the exact opposite of the natural vitamin, which accounts for the minimal absorption and utilization by the body.
The question arises “Well, I feel much better when I take my (synthetic) vitamins. How can this be? Very simple, if synthetic vitamins are chemicals, they can have reactions in your body similar to chemicals and drugs. For example, people say they feel more awake in the morning after their two cups of coffee. Is coffee a natural food source with natural occurring vitamins, minerals, phytochemicals, cofactors and enzymes? Or is it just the chemical, caffeine, in the coffee that is artificially stimulating the body to feel energetic, but in fact is causing a slow decline of one’s total health = wholeness.
I studied at one of the premiere health institutes in the United States that had tremendous results in improving health and eliminating disease of all types. Upon acceptance to the institute, one is instructed to leave all their vitamins at home. The director of the institute remarked that some people start to regain their health just by not taking their vitamins, which can act like chemicals or toxins when they build up in the body. This build up causes the liver to have to work harder increasing the toxic load on the whole system.

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