Natural Vitamins versus Synthetic Vitamins

Supplements for BodybuildersFirst, you need to understand that natural vitamins are built nutritionally – synthetics medically. Learning to read vitamin labels will help you understand the difference between natural food and synthetic vitamins and not to listen to the advertisers of synthetic vitamins. 

Probably never in history has so much money been spent on the advertising and the purchasing of vitamins with so little knowledge of the product itself on the part of either the seller or the buyer. They know nothing of how they are made, their characteristics, their attributes, their sources, their advantages or disadvantages, or how to tell one from the other by reading the label.  Understanding the meaning of each type of vitamin will help in determining what kind of vitamin is best for your body. 

NATURAL – Means vitamins as found in natural foods untampered with in any way that might change their molecule – their biological or biochemical combinations, or their action – this usually means that only the fiber and moisture are removed. All labels of truly natural food concentrates should indicate the exact food source from which the vitamin is obtained. 

CRYSTALLINE – Means it had a natural food as its original source but was treated with various high powered chemicals, solvents, heat and distillations to reduce it down to one specific pure crystalline vitamin or amino acid and hence is no longer natural. It no longer has its synergists, that is, its enzymes, co-enzymes, minerals, mineral activators, and co-vitamin helpers.

SYNTHETIC – Means that in the laboratory a scientist reconstructed the exact structure of the crystalline molecule by “putting together” or chemically combining the same molecules from other known sources. Chemically, therefore, there is no difference between the Synthetic and the Crystalline. The crystalline may have a slight advantage in that it is difficult to reduce any natural product to an absolutely pure state and any impurities would be synergists – hence give a little added value to the Crystalline over the Synthetic.

On the label for either Synthetic or Crystalline only the chemical name of the single vitamin is usually given. Legally it is not necessary to give the source from which the synthetic chemical is derived. 

To give you an idea of how synthetic vitamins can be chemically produced without any food source is Vitamin B-1. To obtain this vitamin source naturally you would need to take brewers yeast. As a synthetic vitamin it is derived from coal tar to produce what you would see on its label as Thiamine Mononitrate. 

 Another example is vitamin C synthetically produced as ascorbic acid from fermented corn chemically changed whereas the natural food vitamin derives its source from citrus fruit as a concentrate.  

There are many more examples of natural food vitamins versus synthetic vitamins, which you can ask your nutritionist or carefully read the vitamin labels. But, the issue is would you rather take vitamins from a natural source that the body can readily assimilate or one chemically produced without its synergists.

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Posted by Kenna on Nov 2nd, 2009 and filed under Diet & Nutrition, Man's Health, Woman’s Health. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response by filling following comment form or trackback to this entry from your site

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  2. BodyMuscul says:
    June 28, 2010 at 5:27 am

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