Synthetic Vitamins

Question: What are the negative effects of synthetic vitamins? What are the negative effects of synthetic vitamins? Should they be avoided? At this point I will not even eat a box of cereal if it has added synthetic vitamins. Anyone with any knowledge at all; please help me out.

Answer: There is nothing wrong with synthetic vitamins as long as you don't abuse them. Vitamins are found in many foods naturally and you can eat these foods as much as you wan't without any real negative effects (except for carrots you can actually start looking orangy if you over eat carrots for an entire month). The synthethic form of vitamins are added to foods to help people who don't eat enough of a variety of fruits and vegetables or grains to assure that they don't become defficient enough to become malnourished. They only real problem is when people become vitamin crazy and think they need a synthetic form of vitamins for everything they end up with vitamin toxicity. This usually doesnt occur with foods that have vitamins added to them since they are usually regulated by the FDA

Question: What are synthetic vitamins? I understand that synthetic vitamins are worse than no vitamins at all.? When you read the label of ingredients, how do you know if the vitamins listed are synthetic or not?

Answer: actaully alot of the synthetic vitamins are just alot of garbage and have been reported to take long periods of time to digest and not do your body any good. The best are all natural naturally grown I get mine from www.destiny-health.com there all natural and I actually feel the difference when I take them the best ones are the Double X. I get the best results from them.

Question: I need a list of organic and synthetic vitamins? I am doing a project for school. it is about vitamin water and bottled water. I was reading a little about vitamin water and it said that some vitamins are organic and some are synthetic .So i just want a list of them, also plz site your source.

Answer: Organic vitamins are found in FOOD. Synthetic vitamins are sythesized in a LAB. I would imagine every vitamin found in a moronic product like "vitamin water" is synthetic since the product contains no actualy food.

Question: Do synthetic vitamins work as well as natural vitamins? I bought several bottles of vitamins and later found out most are synthetic, which means that they are created in a laboratory instead of coming from food sources. And here's a website I found... http://drbenkim.com/articles-vitamins.html Did I waste my money?

Answer: A simple answer . You wasted your money. Laboratories can't complete with mother nature

Question: Does it really matter whether or not you take synthetic vitamins as opposed to natural or organic vitamins? I've heard pro and con, including that synthetic folic acid is absorbed better but the natural form of vitamin A is less toxic. What do the letters "d" or "dl" mean on the vitamin bottle?

Answer: Absolutely not. A molecule of Vitamin C has a specific structure, regardless of how it was made. If it doesn't have that structure it is not Vitamin C. When your body needs a molecule of Vitamin C, that's all it cares about, not where it came from. And ... all vitamins are organic regardless of their source!

Question: synthetic vitamins and minerals vs natural vitamins and minerals? from what i read almost no natural vitamins have any toxic levels yet synthetic vitamins do why is that?

Answer: That's actually not true. Any company that has good quality won't have any toxic products in their vitamins, whether they be synthetic or natural. The only problem you would have with either type would be if you took more than the recommended doses, which could lead to toxicity. The only synthetic vitamin to avoid would be synthetic vitamin E (dl-alpha tocopherols), as that doesn't have the same benefits of natural vitamin E (d-alpha tocopherols). The supplement facts will say which type of vitamin E is in it (the "DL" means it's synthetic, the "L" means it's natural). (edit): In regards to the answer after mine, it is easier for your body to get nutrients from the foods you eat (because your body is already breaking the foods down, in part), and that is the most idea source of nutrition.... but as she also mentions, you're more likely to have contaminants and toxins in foods (pesticides, herbicides, etc) than you will in vitamins because supplements are actually held by a higher quality and purity restrictions.... they HAVE to be purer and cleaner.

Question: Natural or synthetic vitamins? A clerk in a health food store tells you that "natural" vitamin C extracts from rose hips are better than synthetic tablets of the vitamin. Given what you know about the structure of organic compounds, what would be your response? How would you design an experiment to test whether a natural and synthetic version of a vitamin differ?

Answer: It's best to get your vitamins through food, not pills.

Question: How can I tell which vitamin comapnies are making pure vitamins, not "stripped down/synthetic vitamins? also,? is there a bulk vitamin Canadain company similar to the U.S.'s Puritan's Pride? ( www.puritan.com)

Answer: All vitamins are synthetically created. You don't think some fair maiden goes gathering oranges, then pressing them by hand to get the vitamin C out do you? Nope, they're made by intelligent people in laboratories, probably from feedstock such as industrial waste and crude oil. Nearly all vitamins are manufactured by big pharma too; who else has the manufacturing resources and marketing expertise to sell these?

Question: What brands of vitamins are synthetic and what is its natural brand counterpart? can you provide me with examples that i can buy in a drugstore.?

Answer: This question shows how misguided people are. None of the vitamins are natural! The only natural vitamins are the ones you get from unprocessed foods. Where people ever got the idea that natural somehow means good is beyond me. Uranium is natural, so is tobacco, and so is carbon monoxide. That doesn't make it good for you!

Question: What about synthetic vitamins? I am looking for studies or scientific proof of the negative effects of sythetic vitamins. I am not looking for a debate. I'd rather put the question in politics...I' m looking for papers...as much as possible.

Answer: This is a huge subject - not least because of the vast range of vitamins that exist - and it's further confounded by our poor understanding of natural vitamins and their role in health and disease. For the most part, natural vitamins are preferable. The reason cannot be the vitamin itself - I've worked in organic chemistry lab which have made synthetic vitamins and they are in all regards identical to the natural vitamin - this is proven by painstakingly detailed analysis. The drawback with the synthetic vitamins is many of them are incredibly difficult to make - the large vitamins require upwards of 100 synthesis steps, each needing to be optimized for optimal yield etc etc - it's amazing when down, but it's a mammoth task. The lab at harvard, under a Prof. Woodward I think, made a synthetic polyketone in the 1970s or there abouts, and I work with the man that tested this compound to the natural version. And it was identical. So with something as simple as ascorbic acid (vitamin C), which is a relatively straightforward synthesis in a lab, we can be certain that there is no difference in the vitamin, but it's the other stuff that comes with natural vitamins we need to consider. You bite a juicy orange and it has lots of vitamin C, but also several types of bioflavenoids also, that seem to help regulate the absroption of the vitamin into the plasma - this is the big concern with synthetic compounds - their route of delivery, and ensuring we can get them into the blood and to the places we need them to be. Antioxidants may be made in a cell that is highly metabolically active, and produces a pile of free radicals as a result of its respiration rate, and these cells will demonstrate differential production rates of antioxidants, to counter the free radicals. Other tissues and cells won't need to do so, so they won't make the vitamins. But how do we target the synthetic drug into the cells that need it, and not elsewhere, and can be get it there in high enough concentrations? What about cells that don't need it, that are not making so many free radicals - if we labor them with superfluous antioxidants that may upset the oxidative stress of that cell - a balance that is quite delicate -- for instance, mitochondria control the expression of the proteins they need for oxidative phosphorylation by the amount of free radicals they are throwing out into the cell. When they make lots of radicals, this is communicated to the cell's nucleus to trigger expression of the Ox Phos proteins and target them to the mitochondrion that needs them. This is finely tuned - if we ploy a cell with anti-oxidants, then we turn down this signal, even know the need for more protein production is still there. So the problems are to do with targeting the drugs, and identifying their traveling companions (e.g. bioflavenoids). You are right to avoid any debates by online retailers, stick with the scientific literature - a great place to read up on these compounds is the Linus Pauling micronutrient information center online. http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/infocenter/ there'll be lots of info and links there. I'll also send you some articles that might be of general interest. i'll need your email address for that. best wishes jim

Question: How can I know which vitamins are synthetic and which are natural?

Answer: Without the proper knowledge of chemistry the best sign of purity will be the price. The natural vitamins are 3 to 4 times more expensive than the synthetic.

Question: Where can I find clipart for Synthetic Vitamins?

Answer: Find pictures of centrum, one a day or gnc vitamins.

Question: How do you know if a vitamin is Synthetic? I have read not to buy synthetic vitamins, but how do you tell that a vitamin is synthetic? What will the bottle say? Thank you!

Answer: All vitamins are "synthetic" and I will explain why According to this article "Synthetic vitamins are made in a laboratory setting from coal tar derivatives. No co-factors are present. Most of the food supplements sold on the market today are synthetic and often cheaper to produce than natural vitamins. " - Dr. George Obikoya He goes on to say bioflavenoids are separated from the vit c, just like fiber is now separated from white bread. In order to realize the full potential of any store bought vitamin, you need to be able to absorb it properly. Thus turning it into an organic and natural (not synthetic) process. You need to combine the vitamin with something that occurs naturally in nature : for example when you eat an orange you are getting benefit from vit c and bioflavenoids thus helping you utilize vit c effectively. To actually absorb vitamins I have comprised a list of some common vitamins you need to take with other things to make it a more natural supplement: Vitamin...................Needs this to utilize vitamin ================================================= Vitamin E...............Dietary Fat - such as olive oil Calcium................. Vitamin D Quercetin...............Bromelain (papaya Vitamin C...............Bioflavenoids (peel of orange) Vitamin D...............Dietary Fat - such as olive oil Vitamin A...............Dietary Fat - such as olive oil There are many others out there but these are the ones I know of

Question: Synthetic/Natural Vitamins? I have recently acknowledged and have done away with all synthetic vitamins. I was wondering, if they make synthetic vitamins, do they also make synthetic minerals such as zinc... Possibly any other nutrient as synthetic i may want to be aware of? Thank you guys!

Answer: I'm not sure, but I know that many times magnesium they make it in a form that is harder to absorb..

Question: Natural Vitamins vs. Synthetic Vitamins? What's the difference between natural vitamins ad synthetic vitamins? And which are more effective? Thanks!

Answer: A vitamin tablet is exactly the same whether it is obtained from natural sources by an extraction or isolation process or manufactured by a synthesising process. If you consume say 100 mg of Vitamin C by eating two oranges then the Vitamin C is absorbed much better than swallowing a 100 mg Vitamin C pill. It is therefore better to get your vitamins from your diet by eating the right foods than swallowing vitamin tablets. Vitamin tablets are supposed to be a dietary supplement only.

Question: What is a good non- synthetic vitamin brand? Something organic .. and how do I know if a brand is synthetic? are all vitamins sold in the health food store organic and extracted from pure sources - not tar or other weird crap.

Answer: I use Life Extension products after doing a lot of research on various manufacturers.