Research & Technical Articles Vitamins: How Do I Compare Thee? < continued from previous page Emerald Harvest Links Vital Emerald Harvest Vitamins: How Do I Compare Thee? Multi-Vitamins, Minerals and You FAQs How Much Do I Need? Other Hot Products Vital-Zymes Vital Super Antioxidant Vital Flora Support Definition How do I order? Phone 540-286-2400 Internet Secure Online Order Form When man realized his foods had been devitalized (through "modern" processing methods), he decided to replace the lost vitamins. But in his effort to extricate himself from the refined food trap, "scientific confusion" led him to try to replace the nutrients with "chemical man-made vitamins." So, here again, he refined down vitamin products into pure crystalline vitamins, thus robbing them of important food values, just as he had refined natural grains and natural sweeps into their pure crystalline carbon-white flour and white sugar. Then to save money he duplicated these crystalline vitamins synthetically, mostly from coal tar products. Thus natural vitamins as natural foods were robbed of natures life and valuable elusive nutrients. Science proves that while man can isolate from our foods known factors comprising about 99% of total weight, we cannot maintain normal nutrition or "life" by consuming the factors thus isolated. Nature still withholds that something that sustains "life." "High potency" is a much abused term. Test animals on a "high potency enriched diet" do not live as long as those on the same low vitamin diet WITHOUT the enrichment. The human biochemistry requires bioavailable (available to the cells) complexes, NOT huge amounts of crystalline pure or synthetic fractions of vitamin complexes. The apparent benefits derived from laboratory-made vitamins are short-lived. And after a time the benefit is reversed. Natural food complex supplements are typically of a low dose. It is sometimes difficult to envision that such small amounts of a natural substance could be so efficacious. Then again, nature does not supply micronutrients (essential nutrients required in small amounts) in large amounts in any natural food. Kleiner and Orten's textbook, Biochemistry, relates that a millionth of a gram (1 microgram) of (assimilable) B12 per day is all that is needed to maintain a person suffering from pernicious anemia. > Vitamins continued Home | Product Line | Endorsements | FAQs | Research | Order Products VITAL PRODUX™ 44 Mine Rd. Suite 2, PMB 209 Stafford, Virginia  22554  USA 540-286-2400 – FAX: 540-752-4765 E-mail: info@VitalProdux.com Copyright © 1996-2003, VTI, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Text, graphics, and HTML code are protected by US and International Copyright Laws, and may not be copied, reprinted, published, translated, hosted, or otherwise distributed by any means without explicit permission. Vital Produx™ is a trademark of VTI, Inc. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.