Don't be offended, but the term "natural" has no meaning when it comes to vitamins!
Many companies will brag about their product being "natural," but that term is all hype. Oh, there are, indeed, "natural" sources for various vitamins, but you are not getting them.
For instance, Acerola Cherries and Rose Hips are, indeed, natural sources of Vitamin C. But, if you wanted a tablet with 1,000 mg of Vitamin C, it would cost you an arm and a leg if all of the ingredients came from Acerola Cherries and Rose Hips. In fact, I have an analysis (click here) that shows you that the Vitamin C from Acerola Cherries is being priced out at about $7,500 per KG by the vary popular Amway Bio-C Plus formula.
Furthermore, there are tons of research about how effective Vitamin C is for various purposes. When you read this research you'll find that virtually NONE of that research was ever done with "natural" Vitamin C. Nobel Prize winner, Dr. Linus Pauling, got his Nobel Prizes based on his research with Vitamin C -- all "artificial" Vitamin C. Click Here to read what Dr. Pauling has to say about Vitamin C.
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Some companies, like Shaklee, will show you photos of the aura that comes from a natural Vitamin C substance, and show you that the aura that comes from synthetic Vitamin C is very different. There is no doubt about this! That "aura" is real. |
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But, there is still no doubt that you can't afford 1,000 mg per day of "natural" Vitamin C, and even if you could, all the good research on Vitamin C shows that the synthetic does just fine -- thank you.
The B vitamins are extremely important nutrients and about the only natural source for them would be something like brewer's yeast. The problem there is that you would have to take a large bulk of material to get the B Vitamins, and THEN you would be getting them along with other things that might not fit in that formula. As soon as you start extracting those B Vitamins from brewer's yeast, you are edging away from "natural" toward an artificial form of the vitamin.
Finally, this word "natural," like many words in the vitamin industry, has no agreed upon definition, and there is certainly no agency, either public or private, which will set standards or investigate claims.
This word, "natural," is like the word organic. Many people, today, think that an "organic vitamin" must have been made from something which was alive. In their minds "natural" and "organic" are quite similar -- they also think that "artificial" is the opposite of "organic" and that "artificial" means "bad."
More than 200 years ago the word "organic" meant that the material was, at one time, a living thing. Trees, plants and animals, in this sense, are organic, and when they are dead, their remains are still organic.
I am fond of old dictionaries and have one published in "A Standard Dictionary of the English Language," published by Funk & Wagnalls Company, London and Toronto, 1895. Here is the definition of "organic" from that dictionary:
or-gan-ic, adj.
1. Biol. (1) Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of organisms, or animals and plants; having or consisting of organs; as organic remains.
"The various living things or those which have possessed life, compose The Organic World."
Asa Gray: Field-Book of Botany lesson i, p. 1 (I. B&Co. '68)
(2) Of, pertaining to, or affecting an organ or organs, as, organic diseases.
(3) Serving the purpose of an organ.
2. Chem. Containing carbon as an essential ingredient; originally confined to carbon compounds in organisms.
At first the term organic was supposed to be due to vital force, and it was so used until 1828 when Wohler artificially prepared urea, a distinct product of animal life. The term has continued to expand in its meaning until at present any line of demarcation between organic and inorganic compounds is arbitrary rather than natural.
A useful practical distinction between organic and inorganic substances is afforded by their behaviour when heated. An organic substance is either converted into vapour when moderately heated, or is decomposed into volatile products, generally leaving a residue of charcoal which burns away when heated in air.
C. I. Bloxam: Chemistry P 314, p. 468. (P. B. & Co. '90)
Click here to read a bit about Frederick Wohler. His "discovery" of urea was revolutionary at the time, and prompted this:
"This organic synthesis dealt a severe blow to a widespread belief called "vitalism" which maintained that organic chemicals could be modified by chemistry but could only be produced through the agency of a vital force present in living plants and animals."
So, starting in the early 1800's the term "organic" began to shift in meaning -- the definition became much more vague than earlier when it simply meant "derived from something once alive."
In this sense, rocks were not considered organic even though they might, millions of years ago, have been trees -- now crushed and turned into rock.
In the mid 1800's crude oil was discovered. David D. Rockefeller, Sr., recognized that crude oil did not LOOK like it was organic. It came out of the ground in great quantities. In those years there was a glut of too much crude oil and Rockefeller saw that the value of his crude oil reserves would fall unless, somehow, he made crude oil scarce.
One thing he did (very well known) was to establish his own monopoly for crude oil -- so he could keep the prices high artificially.
But, something else he did is not as well known.
He figured that if people regarded crude oil as "organic" (that is, derived from plants) they would think that there was a limited supply of the stuff on the planet and the value would go up.
He joined in the support for making "organic" mean "contains carbon" and since crude oil included a great deal of carbon he promoted the mixed message that "crude oil is organic -- and since everyone knows that organic means derived from plants, there must be a limited resource of this crude oil."
He then created an entire myth that crude oil was formed from dinosaurs and plants covered by earth and rocks -- millions of years ago. I'll leave for another day the expose of that lie -- but consider the magnitude of the harm done to us by David D. Rockefeller, Sr.!!
So, even today, you can study "organic chemistry" in college -- the chemistry of substances containing carbon.
And, even today crude oil is considered valuable and scarce even though the amount of proven reserves has gone up every year for many decades.
In other words, there is no scarcity of crude oil, but the label of "organic" applied to crude oil has helped keep the price up.
And, so organic vitamins need only to contain carbon. Not at all difficult -- and not at all relative to any healthy benefit.
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