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VITAMIN and MINERAL SUPPLEMENTS - FRIENDS OR FOES?

Many of you will be as surprised as I was twenty years ago, to learn that 99% of all vitamin and mineral supplements (VMS) are pure chemicals! They are made in huge vats by chemical companies.
In fact, some of the more popular ones - such as vitamin C - have become 'commodity' items; they are sold by the ton, much like sugar.

I had thought that to obtain vitamin C, the manufacturers got loads of oranges, squashed them down, and took out the vitamin C from them. Ha ha! No - there are only a few manufacturers of vitamin C in the world; people like La Roche, the drug giant.

DOES IT MATTER if our VMS (Vitamin and Mineral Supplements) are Chemicals?
That must depend on how chemical VMS are dealt with by the body...

FOOD ABSORBTION
When food enters the blood stream, the body obviously has to do something with it. With food particles this is quite simple. The chemically active 'ions' which food separates into are easily transported, via the body fluids, to where they are needed.

VMS ABSORBTION
Chemical VMS, however, are not as easily absorbed. The VMS industry is on a constant quest to make them more 'bio-available' - in other words, absorbed as easily as food.

BE CAREFUL WITH VMS
So you do have to be careful with VMS. Don't just believe something you read in the newspaper or are told by a friend. It is always best to check it out with a qualified nutritional therapist.

And remember that nutritional therapy is a science - and science is always learning. The perceived 'best solution' this week may have been superseded next week. So it pays to keep up to date. Another reason to check with a nutritional therapist.

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