The modern trend to consume mostly refined and processed foods makes people nutritionally deprived. This trend is detrimental to our long term health. It brings the need of taking dietary supplements every day. Vitamins are first on the list. We buy vitamins over the counter without even reading the label of ingredients. The price and the name of the vitamins are usually the only criteria we consider when purchasing vitamins. But are they all the same? How they affect body's metabolism and do they actually help?

Most brands of vitamin supplements available today, are made from synthetic vitamins. These "vitamins" are chemical compounds that have been manufactured in a laboratory to copy the natural vitamin molecular structure. The synthetic vitamin is never 100% the same as the natural equivalent. The research shows that the synthetic vitamins can even olter the normal metabolism in a negative way. And taking large doses of synthetic vitamins could create severe nutritional imbalances. Examples are large amounts of Vitamin C producing a copper deficiency and synthetic B vitamins inducing deficiencies of the other B fractions. If you read the Supplement Facts on the synthetic vitamin's container you will notice that you are taking much more supplementation than your daily need really is.

Me and my family have made our choice. We stopped buying synthetic vitamins and switched to vitamins made from whole food ingredients in a proprietary process that ensures the all natural ingredients retain most of their natural nutrients. The best real vitamins on the market are produced by PhytoVitamins and Standard Process.

What  you can do

You can stop taking synthetic supplements. Your body is designed to absorb nutrients from food and not from synthetic based equivalents. For this reason obtaining your vitamins from whole food sources is the best. There is nothing better for you body than whole natural goodness.