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| Dr. Dwight D. Schaefer Chiropractor |
| NATURAL WHOLE FOOD VITAMINS |
| Most people think any vitamin is better than nothing. Well, I am going to explain how untrue that statement is. Let us take a few examples. Dr. Szent-Gyorgi learned that a plant nutrient (which came to be called vitamin C) cured a dreaded disease of the time called scurvy. It also became evident that this same nutrient was helpful in curing all types of infections and diseases. It was assumed that the active ingredient in vitamin C was ascorbic acid. In fact ascorbic acid got it's name from Dr. S.-G's discovery. Ascorbic comes from the Latin for "a" (meaning "away from") and "scorbitus" (meaning "scurvy") hence, "away from [or without] scurvy. However, ascorbic acid is only one small part of the vitamin C complex. You see, early British seamen suffered from scurvy when on long hauls aboard ship with little or no fresh fruits or vegatables (thus little vitamin C). They learned that ascorbic acid did not cure scurvy but limes did. The whole vitamin C complex in the lime which includes ascorbic acid cured scurvy however, ascorbic acid which is fractioned out of the vitamin C did not. Now you see the importance of whole vitamins. |
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| I handle Standard Process vitamins and keep a large supply on hand at all time. |
| It is very rare for a manufacturer to grind up organically grown, fresh, raw vegetables and fruit, whole grains, and the like to make nutritional products. In fact, almost all synthetic vitamin and mineral concentrates (almost all the products the public purchase) are synthesized by the pharmaceutical and chemical industries from the following raw materials. These include coal tar, petroleum products, animal byproducts, rocks, stones, shells, and metal. The manufacturers are simply grinding and mixing these raw ingredients, tableting, and putting their label on the bottle. And in some instances, they are even making the raw ingredients worse. Recently, a "natural" vitamin company was caught irradating the bulk powders they purchase from pharmaceutical companies to make their "organic, natural vitamins." The Shell Game Have you ever played the walnut shell game? That's a game where something is hidden to trick you. Is that the game "nutritional" products companies are playing with you? Vitamin B-12 is often made from activated sewage sludge, B complex vitamins from coal tar, vitamin C from acid, vitamin D from irradated oil, vitamin E comes from Eastman Kodak, calcium from oyster shells (which your body cannot utilize), and on and on. So what's a person to do? Make your emphasis on a healthy diet and use nutritional supplements made from food. These are the products I use when I recommend specific vitamins for my patients. |