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Natural versus Synthetic
(Nature vs. Chemistry (man made)
Medicine:
Pharmaceuticals vs. Herbal Medicine/Homeopathic
Medicine
Supplements:
Made by Pharmaceutical or Chemical Companies versus
Made by Concentrating Food to Clinical Potency
(Natural Vitamins versus Synthetic Vitamins)
Beta-Carotene versus Vitamin C Complex
Ascorbic Acid versus Vitamin C Complex
Tocopherols versus Wheat Germ Oil
For
years, the manufacturers of nutritional supplements and
pharmaceutical companies have produced a synthetic form of
different vitamins. The vast majority of research in the past
30 years has used this synthetic form which probably explains
any conclusions that supplements don't work.
Vitamin E is an example of a
vitamin that can be found in a natural form and a synthetic
form. While the natural and synthetic molecules are mirror
images of each other, they can differ in their biological
actions.
For example, natural vitamin E is utilized by the body more
efficiently than synthetic vitamin E, even though they both
have the same antioxidant power. It has also been found
through research that the natural and synthetic forms of Lipoic
have
different effects in the body as well. There are many
examples of this.
Mirror image molecules are
not the same. A good way of looking at this
is you can't fit your right hand into a left-handed glove. If
you wore your gloves on the wrong hands, you wouldn't be able
to function normally—simply because the gloves wouldn't fit.
The same thing happens in the
body. Your body will not accept a left-handed compound to do
the job a right-handed one is designed to do, and vice versa.
A compound that's the wrong shape cannot work as well in your
body as one that's the right shape. The right shape is the
one that the body recognizes and fully utilizes.
Agriculture:
Hydroponics (cultivation of plants in a chemical bath)
versus Organic
Farming
Chemical Farming versus Organic
Farming
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