Synthetic vitamins – dangerous for your body?
HIGH DOSE SYNTHETICS = PHARMACOLOGY
All preparations of single B vitamins or even of several single B vitamin (combined in so-called “high potency”) supplements are synthetic, chemically isolated, altered and unnatural in form. In some cases, the synthetic forms are completely unusable. For example, synthetic Vitamin B1, commonly listed as thiamine hydrochloride or thiamine mononitrate, is very different from the natural form the body uses. Biochemist Dr. Albert L. Lehninger found that the human body cannot properly metabolize and utilize the synthetic forms of Vitamin B1 because they cannot be phosphorylated into the usable carboxylase or thiamine pyrophosphate, which are essential to the production of pyruvic acid, needed for glucose degradation in the mitochondrial Krebs (citric acid) cycle.
Synthetic Vitamin B1 is known to be biochemically unusable by the body — and it is extremely toxic in large doses. At 10 milligrams or more per day, there have been reports of edema, shaking, tremors, nervousness, disturbances in heart rhythms, severe disturbances in heart and nerve function, tachycardia (change in heart rate), fatty liver and decreased blood pressure.
Dr. Barnett Sure at University of Arkansas Department of Agriculture Chemistry found synthetic thiamine hydrochloride to cause sterility and infertility in animal subjects — sounds like a “neuter”-ceutical to me.
Many consumers think to reach for a high dose of ascorbic acid (erroneously referred to as Vitamin C) during times of illness or immune challenge. In acute situations it will work pharmacologically, but using it long-term can create other health hazards.
In the early 1930s, Albert Szent-Gyorgyi isolated and identified one portion of Vitamin C, the ascorbic acid component. This was a huge discovery, for generations of sailors and city dwellers were afflicted with scurvy, bleeding gums and other Vitamin C-deficient illnesses. He instantly became a candidate for a Nobel Prize. He shared his results with pharmaceutical companies and they began to synthetically manufacture ascorbic acid, which they began marketing as Vitamin C in 1934.
Szent-Gyorgyi, wanting to confirm his findings that ascorbic acid was the active constituent of Vitamin C, conducted additional studies. He found that the bioflavanoids, originally called Vitamin P, from lemons or red pepper were actually the nutrients responsible for clearing up a hemorrhagic condition even when pure ascorbic acid from some other source was useless. He describes it as:
« The active substance (Vitamin P) was found in the end in a fraction consisting of practically pure flavone or flavonal glycoside. Forty milligrams of this fraction given daily intravenously to man restored in a fortnight regularly the normal capillary resistance. Spontaneous bleeding ceased, the capillary walls lost their fragility towards pressure differences and no more plasma protein left the vascular system on increased venous pressure.»
Today, many high-dose synthetic and isolated vitamins are derived from coal tar, petroleum and corn syrup from genetically modified corn. When was the last time you had a petroleum or coal tar deficiency?
