Best Vitamin Supplements for Optimal Health

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Vitamin supplements are becoming more important for health because of the lack of vitamins in fruits and vegetables. This is because the soil used to grow today’s food is depleted of nutrients, especially the soil used to grow conventional food. In addition, a good portion of us do not consume enough fruits and vegetables. Instead, we tend to consume more meat which does not have a lot of nutrients. As a result, vitamin deficiency is on the rise. Vitamin deficiency can cause major health problems, leading to very expensive medical bills. If you want to cut down the cost of your medical bills, keeping your body healthy by eating more organic plant-based food along with high-quality supplements is one of the best ways.

There are countless of vitamin supplements on the market but most of them are not as good as claim by supplement manufacturers. Most vitamin supplements on the market are synthetic and cheaply made. To find the best vitamin supplements for your health, you will need to learn how to tell the difference between natural and synthetic vitamins. To learn more about this, please read Vitamins: How to Tell Natural From Synthetic. You will also need to know how your body utilizes natural and synthetic vitamins. Below is a short excerpt from drheise.com about how the human body utilizes natural and synthetic vitamins.

Vitamins are not individual molecular compounds. Vitamins are biological complexes. They are multi-step biochemical interactions whose action is dependent upon a number of variables within the biological terrain.

Vitamins cannot be isolated from their complexes and still perform their specific life functions within the cells. When isolated into artificial commercial forms, like ascorbic acid, these purified synthetics act as drugs in the body. They are no longer vitamins, and to call them such is inaccurate.

OK, natural vs. synthetic. Let’s start with vitamin C. Most sources equate vitamin C with ascorbic acid, as though they were the same thing. They’re not. Ascorbic acid is an isolate, a fraction, a distillate of naturally occurring vitamin C. In addition to ascorbic acid, vitamin C must include rutin, bioflavonoids, Factor K, Factor J, Factor P, tyrosinase, ascorbinogen, and other components.

In addition, mineral co-factors must be available in proper amounts.

If any of these parts are missing, there is no vitamin C, no vitamin activity. When some of them are present, the body will draw on its own stores to make up the differences, so that the whole vitamin may be present. Only then will vitamin activity take place, provided that all other conditions and co-factors are present.

When taking vitamin supplements, it is also important to take mineral supplements or eat foods that contain natural minerals, because some vitamins need certain minerals to work properly. For example, vitamin D is needed to assist your body to effectively absorb calcium. One of the popular methods of consuming calcium is through conventional cow milk. However, this is not an effective way. The vitamin D in conventional cow milk is usually synthetic which does little to help your body absorb calcium. Drinking cow milk does not strengthen the bone as much as suggested by the dairy industry. If cow milk were good at strengthening bones, we Americans would have very few cases of osteoporosis because we drink it in abundance.

The way nature designed the human body to utilize vitamin is very complex. For a vitamin to work properly in the human body, it has to work in cooperation with other vitamins, minerals and synergistic components. Nature has perfected the art of creating vitamins because it created them with the concept of cooperation. Modern scientists’ method of creating vitamins are nowhere as effective as nature because their vitamins are created with the concept of competition. Because of this, I like to refer to the vitamins found in nature as cooperative vitamins and the synthetic vitamins as competitive vitamins. Synthetic vitamins are missing important synergistic components which can cause them to work against themselves.

A website I recommend buying natural vitamin and mineral supplements is Live Superfoods (aff. link). Look for the vitamins extracted from whole foods or natural sources.

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