Winding Vines
Bluelighter
I notice a lot of folks taking this vitamin, that complex, this multi-whoosey -whats it.
Being in the health and wellness industry I feel I need to share some important information.
First off, no one needs fish oil. Americans and Europeans consume more than enough vitamin A read here about the toxicity:
Now, you may notice a bunch of propaganda of Milk and eggs with increased omega's. Don't be fooled. If you dont believe me, read:
Dr. Raymond Peat's Great Fish Oil Experiment[/URL] and how the fish oil industry is all about money money money.
Let's get something straight right now. The human body has a specific process of assimilating vitamins and nutrients. My philosophy is DONT JUMPT THE GUN. Too often supplements "jump steps" in the process of metabolizing nutrients. Like Vitamin D2, Retinols, and numerous other vitamins. The body has specific "safety nets" that protect it from becoming poisoned, but if you remove parts of the equation these are obsolete.
Vitamin C.
Absorbic Acid and Vitamin C- look the same, sound the same but where it comes from is obscenely important. Just because it quacks doesn't make it a duck.
Say you are at the health food store. You notice a very expensive vitamin and you look at the ingredients compared to a cheapo "nature's way" bottle. The more expensive one has cellulose instead of magnesium stearate and geez, it has less of everything in it so it must be just a gimmick!
Not true, ALL vitamins should be naturally derived from another veggie, fruit, legume, root etc.
This is why people have died from supplements. The cheap, synthetically derived vitamins have to contain double, triple (and EVEN more!) than the naturally derived because the human body has evolved processes of assimilating vitamins. The synthetics don't quite "fit into the key holes" so to speak and the body ends up not being able to absorb all of that shit. So it leaves it to the Liver and Kidneys to expel literally all your wasted cheap vitamins. (who hasn't had nuclear waste urine from a B complex)
Remember it is your health, and when you buy cheap vitamins, you are only making big corporations money for using cheap goods.
More to come soon!!
Being in the health and wellness industry I feel I need to share some important information.
First off, no one needs fish oil. Americans and Europeans consume more than enough vitamin A read here about the toxicity:
(this can all be found via the FDA's website as well.)Acute toxicity generally occurs at doses of 25,000 IU/kg of body weight, with chronic toxicity occurring at 4,000 IU/kg of body weight daily for 6-15 months.[23] However, liver toxicities can occur at levels as low as 15,000 IU per day to 1.4 million IU per day, with an average daily toxic dose of 120,000 IU per day. In people with renal failure 4000 IU can cause substantial damage. Additionally excessive alcohol intake can increase toxicity. Children can reach toxic levels at 1500IU/kg of body weight.[24]
In chronic cases, hair loss, drying of the mucous membranes, fever, insomnia, fatigue, weight loss, bone fractures, anemia, and diarrhea can all be evident on top of the symptoms associated with less serious toxicity.[25]
It has been estimated that 75% of people may be ingesting more than the RDA for vitamin A on a regular basis in developed nations. Intake of twice the RDA of preformed vitamin A chronically may be associated with osteoporosis and hip fractures. High vitamin A intake has been associated with spontaneous bone fractures in animals. Cell culture studies have linked increased bone resorption and decreased bone formation with high vitamin A intakes. This interaction may occur because vitamins A and D may compete for the same receptor and then interact with parathyoid hormone which regulates calcium.[24]
Toxic effects of vitamin A have been shown to significantly affect developing fetuses. Therapeutic doses used for acne treatment have been shown to disrupt cephalic neural cell activity. The fetus is particularly sensitive to vitamin A toxicity during the period of organogenesis.[13]
These toxicities only occur with preformed (retinoid) vitamin A (such as from liver). The carotenoid forms (such as beta-carotene as found in carrots), give no such symptoms, but excessive dietary intake of beta-carotene can lead to carotenodermia, which causes orange-yellow discoloration of the skin.[26][27][28]
A study by Siri Forsmo et al. shows a correlation between low bone mineral density and too high intake of vitamin A.[29]
Researchers have succeeded in creating water-soluble forms of vitamin A, which they believed could reduce the potential for toxicity.[30] However, a 2003 study found that water-soluble vitamin A was approximately 10 times as toxic as fat-soluble vitamin.[31] A 2006 study found that children given water-soluble vitamin A and D, which are typically fat-soluble, suffer from asthma twice as much as a control group supplemented with the fat-soluble vitamins.[32]
Chronically high doses of Vitamin A can produce the syndrome of "pseudotumor cerebri".[33] This syndrome includes headache, blurring of vision and confusion. It is associated with increased intracerebral pressure. [34]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_a
Now, you may notice a bunch of propaganda of Milk and eggs with increased omega's. Don't be fooled. If you dont believe me, read:
Dr. Raymond Peat's Great Fish Oil Experiment[/URL] and how the fish oil industry is all about money money money.
Let's get something straight right now. The human body has a specific process of assimilating vitamins and nutrients. My philosophy is DONT JUMPT THE GUN. Too often supplements "jump steps" in the process of metabolizing nutrients. Like Vitamin D2, Retinols, and numerous other vitamins. The body has specific "safety nets" that protect it from becoming poisoned, but if you remove parts of the equation these are obsolete.
Vitamin C.
Absorbic Acid and Vitamin C- look the same, sound the same but where it comes from is obscenely important. Just because it quacks doesn't make it a duck.
Say you are at the health food store. You notice a very expensive vitamin and you look at the ingredients compared to a cheapo "nature's way" bottle. The more expensive one has cellulose instead of magnesium stearate and geez, it has less of everything in it so it must be just a gimmick!
Not true, ALL vitamins should be naturally derived from another veggie, fruit, legume, root etc.
This is why people have died from supplements. The cheap, synthetically derived vitamins have to contain double, triple (and EVEN more!) than the naturally derived because the human body has evolved processes of assimilating vitamins. The synthetics don't quite "fit into the key holes" so to speak and the body ends up not being able to absorb all of that shit. So it leaves it to the Liver and Kidneys to expel literally all your wasted cheap vitamins. (who hasn't had nuclear waste urine from a B complex)
Remember it is your health, and when you buy cheap vitamins, you are only making big corporations money for using cheap goods.
More to come soon!!
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