Why Whole Food Supplements? Synthetic Vitamins and Their Hidden Dangers

Do you know how to identify whole food supplements? If not you may be putting your health at risk.

The majority of Americans who are taking vitamins are taking sythetics with the hope of minimizing their health risks and filling in for nutrition shortfalls in their diet.

This may sound like the most prudent course of action, but wait, is it really?

To answer that question, let's look at 3 pieces of evidence that will cause you to question the wisdom of supplementation with synthetics.

1. Septic tank backup - Did you know that the #1 cause of backed up septic systems are undigested synthetic supplements? That's right. If you swallow a synthetic supplement, it is poorly digested and absorbed and ends up being flushed down your toilet.

   So before investing money in vitamins remember this fact.

2. Humans are designed to get nutrition from whole foods. Your body was designed to get it's nutrition from food not synthetics created in a laboratory.

   Here is an example that illustrates this real well.

   A vitamin C deficiency can easily be corrected with one lime. In fact,a lime only contains 60 mg of Vitamin C. But, it also contains a whole complex of other nutrients that increase the absorption and maximum use of the nutrient. I call this synergy. This is why, the amount of any given nutrient is not important, but it's absorption is.

   Now take synthetic vitamin C. To overcome a deficiency you must ingest 1000 mg of Vitamin C. You only need 6% as much when it comes from a whole food!

3. 2007 Study in Journal of the American Medical Association has shown an increased risk of death in people using synthetic forms of beta carotene, Vitamin A, Vitamin E, and Vitamin C.

   This study shows that synthetic vitamins should be avoided. This is especially true since food based supplements are available. However, 100% food based supplements are difficult to find because of the expense involved in creating these supplements. Few companies are investing in these.

To learn more about how to identify vitamins that are absorbed and not flushed down the toilet, click on the toilet in the upper right hand corner of this page.

In this report you will know without a doubt when a supplement is food based or synthetic.

1. On the left click on optimal health.
2. In the center of your screen scroll down to the 8th product.
3. Add it to your cart
4. Then be sure to click on auto order to get an additional 10% off. You will not run out and it is risk free since you have a 180 day money back guarantee.

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