Supplements from the various suppliers of metabolic typing that I use
are of high quality. However I learned early on why they were supplying
some of the B vitamins as synthetics because the food based B's weren't
that stable and their potency would vary.
Big pharma is after the supplement market and wants it all to
themselves. I've talked with supplement manufacturers and they would
like better government regulation of the industry just not the "pull the
ladder up" kind that big pharma wants. They want to be able to assure
their customers that their products are top quality and that also
requires being able to verify their raw sources.
I agree with much of what Mike Adams writes on Natural News but not
necessarily anything that propose the "shotgun" use of supplements.
That in spite of the fact he has a good article there on metabolic typing.
On 12/17/2013 11:09 AM, anartax...@yahoo.com wrote:
Share,
Naturalnews.com is not necessarily a source of unbiased opinion. There
are clearly some things wrong in this article that was cited. Vitamins
are fat or water soluble chemicals that the body needs in limited
amounts. If you take more than the body needs, it just excretes them,
or in some cases, toxicity results. A vitamin has a specific chemical
structure, and it should work fine if ingested into the body; it
really does not matter how it gets into the body, from food or a pill,
or even injection, if the body can process it. Until about 80 years
ago, everyone got vitamins in food. Unless food sources are scarce or
the quality of the food is lacking, that should be enough and you need
not take any more. Most pill form vitamins are manufactured by just a
few companies, and they package them for other companies just changing
the labels on the bottles. You can check the bottle to see if was
'manufactured by' or 'distributed by' - the latter means the company
probably paid to have the product made under their label.
Most studies of vitamins are done by universities and pharmaceutical
companies. Pharmaceuticals have to be shown to be effective to be
marketed (even if in some cases the research is sub par), while food
supplements do not require proof of efficacy and are not restricted
for a specific intended use as are pharmaceuticals. The safety of food
supplements is left up to the manufacturer unless a definite problems
shows up. I take a multivitamin. I cannot tell if it does anything,
but I do not always follow a well balanced diet, so it is just a bit
of insurance, but I do not take more than the minimum daily
requirement. I have on occasion been prescribed a specific vitamin by
a physician for a specific reason.
While the article in your interpretation implies that advertising on a
web cite is inciting people to substitute pharmaceuticals for
vitamins, I did not read it that way. Ads are ubiquitous on the
Internet now.
Using Dietary Supplements Wisely
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)
http://nccam.nih.gov/health/supplements/wiseuse.htm
Research has been done at NCCAM on quite a lot of alternate modalities
but the results of many of these have dashed the hopes of finding
effective alternatives to pharmaceuticals. Suspiciously many studies
done simply have not been published and the reason seems to be they
showed no useful effect for a particular modality.
There is a problem with government regulation in that, most
unfortunately, those that oversee the agencies often have ties to the
drug companies, and so there is always a suspicion that compromises
are being made behind closed doors. On the other hand supplement
companies sell products without any real research being done in most
cases.
The only reason to take a pharmaceutical is it will actually help with
a particular condition. Following the approval of a drug, its use is
monitored. In general the effectiveness of a pharmaceutical reported
in the studies that resulted in its approval turns out to be about
double what its effectiveness is reported to be in actual use by
physicians for their patients. And in some cases, a few drugs simply
do not prove to work at all, or have disastrous side effects and are
removed from the market. If you are healthy you really do not need to
take anything other than a well balanced diet.
For lunch today I had tilapia with Indian masala spices, white and
black rice, curried zucchini and tomatoes, and a small glass of
Riesling. I forgot to take my vitamin pill, and a specific drug that
has been prescribed (which works as intended by the way, unlike many
drugs, its effect is very obvious), so I will do that now.
---In FairfieldLife@{{emailDomain}}, <sharelong60@...> wrote:
OMG, they must really think we're all idiots, to try and foist
medicine on us as a source of nutrients!
On Tuesday, December 17, 2013 11:54 AM, Bhairitu <noozguru@...> wrote:
Mainstream media and big pharma is hoodwinking the public into believing
that vitamin supplements are bad. Thing is they didn't bother to study
quality vitamins which do work, just the cheap ones (often produced by
big pharma themselves):
www.naturalnews.com/043254_mainstream_media_multivitamins_quack_science.html
