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ImaCannin
3rd January 2013, 08:04 PM
I had a friend hit me up about being a dealer for ..... Youngevity...... I tried to explain how toxic synthetic vitamins are to your system. It was in one ear and out the other. By the end of the conversation, he commented on how I would do good selling it and how much money I could make. He didn't even hear "how toxic they were to your system" speech! Anyway......

A quick search on "side effects from synthetic vitamins" .........

http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_18619.cfm
However, as great as our capacity to utilize natural nutrients from food is, we are lacking the capacity to properly utilize synthetic nutrients derived from chemical processing. The human body can't regulate the absorption of synthetic vitamins, neither can it optimize their levels. Here is what likely occurs when synthetic vitamins are administered. The highly bioactive, chemically processed vitamin molecules bypass the body's natural enzymatic pathways, giving the body the signal that its vitamin pool is fully loaded. After synthetic vitamin administration, the body is tricked to believe that it doesn't need to utilize more of the same nutrients from food. Consequently, the enzymes that normally utilize complex plant nutrients into vitamin molecules are inhibited and the body is losing its ability to fully assimilate food's nutrients, as well as the capacity to regulate and optimize healthy vitamin concentrations. In reality, synthetic vitamins are received by the body as drugs and like all drugs, they can potentially disrupt normal metabolic functions often with devastating side effects.

For instance, excessive vitamin B1 can deplete other B vitamins, disrupt insulin and thyroid production. Excessive vitamin B3 has shown to cause liver damage. Megadosages niacin have also shown to adversely affect individuals who suffer from glaucoma, gout, liver disease and peptic ulcers. Note that megadosages niacin have been commonly prescribed today as an alternative medicine to lower cholesterol levels. Excess of synthetic vitamin B6 pyridoxine has shown to cause liver damage when used in long term "therapeutic" dosages (over 200 mg/daily). These so-called therapeutic potencies of B6 are currently available over the counter in stores nationwide. Even folic acid, which is regarded as safe and highly beneficial, could turn to be toxic in high doses (5-10 mg) with symptoms including bloating, nausea and upset stomach. High dosages of folic acid may also result in increased occurrence of seizures among individuals suffering from epilepsy.

When examining products labeled as natural vitamins, note that labels of truly natural food based vitamins, should indicate the exact natural source from which each of the vitamins is obtained. Simply put, if the vitamin concentrations are high and/or their natural sources aren't listed, most likely these vitamins are synthetic. Chemical sources for synthetic vitamin supplements include petrochemicals, coal tar, chemically manipulated sugar and inorganic minerals.


http://www.foodkills.org/synthetics.html
More than 95% of the vitamins, minerals and antioxidants that you can buy at "health food" stores and close to 100% of those sold in other stores are now made by the same few pharmaceutical and chemical companies who supply them to most all the vitamin and mineral companies.

"The ascorbic acid you buy at the grocery store every few weeks, thinking you are buying Vitamin C, is just a chemical copy of naturally occurring ascorbic acid, which itself is still only a fraction of the actual Vitamin C. Real vitamin C is part of something living, and as such, can impart life. Your synthetic, fractionated chemical ascorbic acid never grew in the ground, never saw the light of day, never was alive or part of anything alive. It's a chemical, a cornstarch derivative, a sulfuric acid by-product. In your body it's just another drug. Synthetic vitamins have toxic effects from mega-doses and actually can increase the white blood cell count. Vitamins are only necessary in minute quantities on a daily basis. Whole food vitamins, by contrast, are not toxic since the vitamin is complexed in its integral working form, and requires nothing from the body, and triggers no immune response.


http://www.naturalnews.com/036650_synthetic_vitamins_disease_side_effects.htm l#ixzz2GyNgcE7a
Walking into a nutritional nightmare is easy if you don't know the "low down" on supplements. Dangerous supplements can reverse what you are trying to accomplish. Also, many multivitamins, especially the chewable ones, contain Aspartame, one of the leading causes of Fibromyalgia and IBS (irritable bowel syndrome).

Synthetic vitamin B-12, cyanocobalamin, is made from ground up toxic cow livers and activated sewage sludge. These cow livers are overloaded with steroids and antibiotics, and the pesticides the cow assimilates from eating GMO feed, and these cows are living in CAFO's (confined animal feeding operations), where they often collapse and die slowly, while lying in their own "sludge" or fecal matter.

http://www.beyondtangy.com/images/canister_supplement.jpg
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21LDRFdiOmL.jpg
Hidden Names of MSG (http://www.truthinlabeling.org/hiddensources.html)

Glass
3rd January 2013, 08:29 PM
yum!

I often have a chuckle when I see a product that contains "Essential Vitamins and Minerals". Something that contains "Vital-Minerals and also Minerals, be good right?" It's got minerals and minerals. Queue Idiocracy quotes.

So the conversation was not a health conversation. It was a money or recruitement conversation. An invitation to get in to an MLM. The health/vitamin MLM's are booming in S/E Asia. I know someone who is top of the heap in Australia for a different vitamin company. There is solid money to be made. He makes about $100K per week. He works 3 days a week although work is a grey definition. This guy is a really sociable and nice guy. His way of working is he goes to social events. Either openings or launchings of one thing or another. Opening nights at the theatre etc. He also goes to networking functions and events. He flirts constantly and all the ladies gush over this guy. Flattery will get you everywhere it seems. He is always a gentleman though. Never low brow.

Not pushy. He tells you once what he does and then thats it. Up to you. he has now opened up Malaysia and Thailand and the people there are flocking into this business.

So back to the OP. I don't know about where their vital minerals and minerals come from but the are apparently rated as the highest quality vitamin manufacturer in the world. I don't trust the supermarket products. It's a worry hearing that B-12 is made from cow livers. Maybe they should have made it in Oil form like Cod liver oil.

zap
3rd January 2013, 08:40 PM
I have never believed you should take a supplement, you should get what you need from the food you eat, but that has been a ( big lie ) since they have given us poisonous/cancerous food ( Monsanto)

oh lets go organic, ya sure .... but make sure you grow it your self not, from Monsanto seeds, and you will be ahead of the game.

Its scary what our children have to look forward too....

Santa
3rd January 2013, 08:49 PM
Its scary what our children have to look forward too....

This is a Huge and very uncomfortable truth...

Shami-Amourae
3rd January 2013, 09:03 PM
This is a Huge and very uncomfortable truth...

That's why we are so apathetic. That's why we spend so much of our time in video games and virtual worlds. I run a business in a virtual world where people go to escape reality and live a fantasy virtual life. This forum is pretty much the only contact I have to people outside of the virtual world. Virtual worlds are a fast growing industry, and many of the people there I talk to know a lot of things are fucked up, and that they can't change anything. So they shut themselves in, and try to forget reality.

Things will either collapse, or a more likely scenario is we'll just have an automated high tech police state run our everyday lives. People will be forced to merge with machines in order to escape all then cancers and health conditions coming. It's all falling into place.

madfranks
4th January 2013, 07:38 AM
That's why we are so apathetic. That's why we spend so much of our time in video games and virtual worlds. I run a business in a virtual world where people go to escape reality and live a fantasy virtual life. This forum is pretty much the only contact I have to people outside of the virtual world. Virtual worlds are a fast growing industry, and many of the people there I talk to know a lot of things are fucked up, and that they can't change anything. So they shut themselves in, and try to forget reality.

Things will either collapse, or a more likely scenario is we'll just have an automated high tech police state run our everyday lives. People will be forced to merge with machines in order to escape all then cancers and health conditions coming. It's all falling into place.

Yikes! Kind of a frightening future there!