The Vitamin Masquerade Part III

To get back on track with the entries that I was posting, this is the next part I wanted to go into about vitamins. So what I have been reading is that essentially the sort of vitamins that you should be looking out to buy are ones that are taken from “whole foods” rather than made synthetically. But how do you know the difference? Not like they will say on the label “Hey, I’m a clone and technically a fake!” will they? Here is how…

Basically, on every bottle of vitamins that you buy there will be the ingredients list, for want of a better word. And with the names of your ingredients, where they are synthetically made they essentially have a synthetic name. As follows:-
B1 – thiamine mononitrate or thiamine hydrochloride
B2 – riboflavin
B5 – calcium D-pantothenate
B6 – pyridoxine hydrochloride
B12 – cobalamin
Folic Acid – pteroylglutamic acid
Biotin – d-Biotin

But where they are made from whole foods, real foods, you have the food names like so:-
Apple
Bran
Yeast
Brown Rice
Wheat Germ
Broccoli

Some companies won’t necessarily list the source of B-Complex but look for the break down as it is normally a cocktail of B-Vitamins so looks what’s what in it. The thing to look out for as well is the little extras that we tend to overlook like bulking agents, anti-caking agents, preservatives – we’ve all seen that on there! Although for many people these are not an issue they can be harmful in some sensitive people. Additives can be very harmful especially. Case studies have shown that when fed to rats one additive they have been unchanged, two and they start to get sick and three – it’s the magic number, they have died.

Although there is still much debate about whether synthetic vitamins cause more harm than good or any harm at all you do still need to be aware what you’re putting into your bodies. I’m not here to tell you what to buy or how to live. I’m just out to give you facts that you, like me, didn’t know about.

Good life, love, peace and health to you reader!