The Real Truth About Vitamins and
Supplements
Written by Administrator
Friday, 23 March 2007
Virtually all vitamin manufacturers use an industrial process called
fractioning. This process is designed to split a food
into its separate nutritional components. These isolated nutrients
are then re-combined in pill form (sometimes even liquid), and then
sold as natural. But by their very nature, these products
are totally unnatural. Once you fraction out an isolated nutrient,
youve created a chemical. More importantly, these products
are inherently incomplete.
The human body utilizes nutrients in conjunction with one another.
Body Balance liquid phytonutrients contain a combination of ALL
the ingredients found in nature, rather than just the so-called
active ingredients which the manufactures decide to
put in their pills or liquid vitamins.
For example:
Most people think beta-carotene is a critical antioxidant that needs
to be in their vitamin pill. Yet beta-carotene is really only ONE
of the hundreds of carotenes found naturally in foods. When one
nutrient is fractioned away from the others, the resulting compound
fails to work as intended. New research shows that high doses of
synthetic beta-carotene make certain types of cancer worse. Smokers
should definitely not take it. Taking high dosages of the synthetic
or fractionated beta-carotene and other antioxidants commonly sold
in stores can result in impaired immunity ... the exact opposite
of what youre trying to achieve! You cannot put any antioxidants
in pill form without killing the life.
Sidenote:
Thats why its recommended we eat at least 5 servings
of fruits and vegetables a day. Its LIVE food rich in antoxidants
and usable phytonutrientsthat is, unless you cook it hotter
than 115 degrees. But for most people, getting 5 servings of LIVE
food in our fast-paced world is a difficult task. So they need alternatives.
Page 1542 of the Physicians Desk Reference (considered to be the
medical Bible); it says that vitamins and minerals in
pill form are only 10% to 20% absorbed by the body. Even those pills
listed as all natural often have added fillers and coatings
that inhibit absorption. A liquid vitamin has up to 98% absorption
rate. Compounding the problem is that store-bought nutritional products
lack the coenzymes and trace minerals which are necessary to enable
the body to even absorb the nutrients. Almost all store-bought vitamins
are concocted in a laboratory. Store-bought supplements are relatively
easy and inexpensive to make. On the other hand, Body Balance utilizes
a time-consuming process that ensures the finished product retains
the live nutritional value of the raw materials.
At present, there are only a couple manufacturers who have the
necessary technology to create phytonutrient complexes. Life Force
is one of them, and is currently the world leader in the most bio-available
liquid whole-food supplements. This is where the Life Force bio-liquid
advantage is important. Their full-spectrum nutrients and phytonutrients
are concentrated, absorbable, stable, and formulated in the right
sequence to produce superb quality, with high concentrations.
Why Whole-food Supplements?
Having dietary supplements derived from whole-foods is equally important
as having them in liquid form. As we covered, most traditional supplements,
tablet or liquid, are made with synthesized vitamins, made in a
laboratory out of isolated chemicals which may have been, at one
time before its altered state, a whole food. If the vitamins
even have minerals, theyre usually in an elemental, inorganic
form. Inorganic minerals are far, far less acceptable to our human
bodies.
Another example:
Almost all vitamin C available in stores is from the synthetic form,
ascorbic acid. However, when Mother Nature makes it,
an untold number of supportive phytonutrients are built in and around
the entire nutrient matrix. Man-made laboratories simply cannot
duplicate this processthus the value of whole-food nutrients
and phytonutrients. Even the most sophisticated science cannot supply
the innumerable phyto compounds that are interwoven
throughout a whole-food.
This phytonutrition adds immeasurable value to specific
nutrients. Take vitamin C again as the example: When you eat an
orange, you get vitamin C AND a magnificent complement of supportive
naturally associated compounds. So even if youre
getting mega doses of vitamin C, or any other vitamin, your body
is most likely craving the naturally associated factors
as much or MORESO than a high dose of a single isolated nutrient.
These OTHER naturally occurring side nutrients are
the true value of whole-food dietary supplements, and are why youre
getting so much more value beyond synthetic vitamins and elemental
minerals with Body Balance.
You could compare this value to the difference between the music
played by a solo instrument to that of the music generated by an
entire symphony orchestra. You could also compare this to the significant
difference between a simple language of only 100 words versus a
sophisticated language of 100,000 words.
Nourish Yourself All The Way To Wellness
With Life Force products, you get the best of both worlds: 1) Natural-source
nutrients and phytonutrients from whole-food sources. 2) The most
bio-available absorbable liquid form. Life Force products are based
on this wellness philosophy:
When the body gets what it needs, it then has the opportunity
to address its own health challenges.
Your body has tremendous capacity to heal itself, and bring itself
back into balance. All you have to do is feed your body the right
things. So nourish it on the way to wellness.
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