Posted by Heart4Beepers on July 3, 2005, at 2:56:39
In reply to Re: Alternative Treament for Bipolar, posted by LOOPS on July 1, 2005, at 11:42:20
Most vitamin-mineral supplements are synthetics or a mixture. There are ingredients in whole foods (vs. synthetic vitamins) that tell the body that it is food vs. a foreign chemical agent or metabolic waste--now that we have the technology, we can detect that supplements derived from once-living sources have photons of light which are not found in synthetics. Synthetics are more like drugs and the liver recognizes them as such, trying to detoxify and eliminate them--hence the need for "high potency" doses of synthetics. Synthetics may not be entirely without harm as synthetic B vitamins were found to cause infertility in pigs. Synthetics, because they do not include the full complement of synergists found in whole food sources, may draw these resources from other parts of the body and cause imbalances in nutritional status after awhile. The burst of energy that some may feel when first taking high potency vitamins is often the result of the body hyping up so it can respond to a high dose of chemicals. When the liver (which gets better and better at clearing them) catches up, the initial energizing response goes away. Whole foods will contain minerals naturally chelated by their plant source as well. If they are organically grown on good soil, they will also have many necessary trace minerals. I believe it is the minerals that will turn out to be the most valuable in improving our health all- around. Look at all the new claims made for things like coral calcium and sea silver--both are rich in trace minerals which we don't get in foods grown on artificially fertilized soil. In fact, even vitamin content has gone down with genetic engineering and artificial fertilizers. You'd have to eat about 5 oranges to get the same vitamin C as one grown back in the 50's.
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