| Both vitamins and minerals are also very | | | | 1929 by Dr. Royal Lee, a dentist and a brilliant |
| important for optimal health. They work together | | | | nutritionist. |
| with enzymes, special proteins that regulate all the | | | | If you look at the list of ingredients, you will not |
| biological processes in your body. | | | | find synthetic ascorbic acid or d-alpha tocopherol |
| Each vitamin is not a single substance, but a | | | | (synthetic vitamin E). Instead, the ingredients are |
| combination of dozens (sometimes hundreds) of | | | | real foods, such as wheat germ, carrot, nutritional |
| ingredients. For example, vitamin C contains | | | | yeast, bovine adrenal, bovine liver, bovine spleen, |
| ascorbic acid, ascorbigen, tyrosinase, copper, trace | | | | bovine kidney, dried pea juice, dried alfalfa juice, |
| minerals, dozens of bioflavonoids, J factor, P | | | | mushroom, oat flour, and rice bran. |
| factor, and a few other ingredients. | | | | The reason for including organ meats is because |
| Food (orange, kiwi, strawberry, etc.) has all the | | | | they are loaded with nutrients, more so than the |
| ingredients of vitamin C. A capsule of ascorbic | | | | meat that we usually eat. In the past people |
| acid does not. | | | | actually ate the organs and even now there are |
| Minerals are naturally found in the earth crust, in | | | | many parts of the world where this is still done. |
| rocks, mountains, and soil. Minerals in their natural | | | | Because it is made from foods, this multivitamin |
| state are inorganic (not alive) and are useless to | | | | contains every nutrient known and unknown (we |
| us. Plants can take these "dead" minerals and | | | | are still discovering new important substances). |
| transform them into the "live" ones, which is what | | | | The foods are mixed together and dehydrated |
| your body needs. When you eat plants (or animals | | | | using a patented low temperature high vacuum |
| that eat plants), you get the minerals that are | | | | process. The end product contains live foods with |
| organic (live). | | | | all the important nutrients, including vitamins, |
| The fact is that even if you eat a good diet you | | | | minerals, enzymes, and co-enzymes. |
| still need additional nutrients, so you need to take | | | | Most of the supplements I use in my practice are |
| supplements. | | | | made by a company founded by Dr. Lee in 1920s. |
| It may come as a surprise, but most nutritional | | | | It has 1,000-acre organic farm in Wisconsin where |
| supplements are not made from food. They are | | | | all the raw materials are grown, so they control |
| made from rocks (calcium carbonate, magnesium | | | | the whole process from seeds to the finished |
| oxide, etc.) and from petrochemicals or coal tar | | | | product. |
| (B vitamins) or corn syrup (ascorbic acid). | | | | Because they are made from foods, these |
| Fortunately, you can find nutritional supplements | | | | supplements have real vitamins, minerals, and |
| that are made from real food. They are made by | | | | other nutrients. |
| removing water, which leaves all the nutrients | | | | Next time you think of buying a supplement, |
| intact. A raisin has all the same nutrients as a | | | | check the ingredients. If it is not made from food, |
| grape, except for water. | | | | put it back. To get more common sense |
| The first food-based multivitamin was produced in | | | | information about nutrition, visit the site below. |