The majority of vitamins and multivitamins being sold today are full of synthetic versions of the nutrients found naturally in food. These synthetics are not the same as the natural versions, despite what the scientists who create them and the companies who peddle them would have you believe. How could they be the same thing when they come together in completely different processes, using different ingredients, and wind up as different molecules than anything we find in nature?
Synthetic vitamins come from coal tar, petroleum byproducts, hazardous chemicals, industrial waste, and corrosive acids. This is not the way nature makes our vitamins, and the results don’t work as well either. Synthetic vitamins are not as easily absorbed or put to use as the natural ones our bodies recognize.
The rigid, isolated, and often crystalline synthetics are harder on the kidneys and liver, collect in tissues, and many are even treated completely as toxins. This means they slowly do damage to your nervous system, muscles, cardiovascular system, organs, and your immune system too. As toxins, they also contribute to obesity and make it hard to lose weight as the body likes to stuff toxins in fat cells where they do less damage than roaming free.
“Coal Tar Colors (FD&C, D&C) are derived from petroleum waste, research has suggested FD&C Blue No.1 and FD&C Green No. 3 are carcinogenic (cancer-causing), and D&C Red No. 33, FD&C Yellow No. 5, and FD&C Yellow No. 6 can contain impurities that may cause cancer when applied to the skin. They have been banned for use in Canada and the European Union. FD&C Yellow No. 5 is also used in foods and is known as tartrazine, and can worsen asthma and breathing problems.”