5 Reasons to Avoid Synthetic Vitamins

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Dr. Eric Berg

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🗓️ 9 June 2020

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In this podcast, we’re going to talk about natural vs synthetic vitamins and the five reasons why you should avoid synthetic vitamins.

Synthetic vitamins vs natural vitamins:

Synthetic vitamins and natural vitamins are not the same things. In nature, vitamins come in complexes. When you buy a natural vitamin, it can also come as an individual part of the complex, and it’s much better than the synthetic version. But there is a time and a place for the use of synthetic vitamins.

For example, a short term detoxification program may call for synthetic vitamins. However, you do not want to use synthetic vitamins for maintenance. The other exception would be the synthetic version of B1, which is benfotiamine. This is a fat-soluble vitamin B1 that does not appear to have any side effects.

Synthetic vitamins:

• Synthetic vitamins can be toxic

• Synthetic vitamins can cause deficiencies

• Synthetic vitamins are basically artificially fractions of parts of vitamins

• Synthetic vitamins don’t absorb as well as natural vitamins

• Synthetic vitamins don’t have cofactors, enzymes, or trace minerals

How can you tell if you’re getting the right natural vitamins?

I believe natural or whole food vitamin complexes are the way to go. Look at the back of the label, and in the ingredients, it will tell you if it’s herb-based or a concentrated food vs if it just lists the vitamins and all of their values are the same. For example, B1 - 100mg, B2 - 100mg, B3 - 100mg. In nature, the values would be different.

Liver pills could also be an exception as far as synthetic vitamins. But, consuming too much liver or taking too many liver pills could cause you to have too much iron or vitamin A.

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Dr. Berg, 51 years of age is a chiropractor who specializes in weight loss through nutritional & natural methods. His private practice is located in Alexandria, Virginia. His clients include senior officials in the U.S. government & the Justice Department, ambassadors, medical doctors, high-level executives of prominent corporations, scientists, engineers, professors, and other clients from all walks of life. He is the author of The 7 Principles of Fat Burning.

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0:00.0	So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or intermittent fasting, whether you're starting
0:05.3	keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or you have a question about a product,
0:10.6	call one of our keto consultants. They'll be able to help you. Call 540-299-1557. That's 540-299-1557.
0:21.6	Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting Podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. Let's talk about the five reasons why you should avoid synthetic vitamins.
0:49.8	Now, what you need to know is this. There's a huge difference between synthetic vitamins and natural
0:57.7	vitamins. They're not the same. Some people say they're the same. A molecule is a molecule.
1:04.0	It's not. It's a different orientation in nature. vitamins come also in complexes,
1:10.7	like they'll come with trace minerals and cofactors
1:13.6	and enzymes and associated factors and vitamins. And also when you actually just buy natural
1:20.6	vitamins, it could come as an individual part of a complex. And that's a lot better than a synthetic. But there's always exceptions. For example,
1:30.9	there is a time and a place for synthetic vitamins, a short-term detoxification program. Totally fine,
1:37.4	necessary because you're using vitamins for a different purpose to help push out toxins.
1:43.0	So that's actually essential, but not as a maintenance.
1:47.2	You don't want to do synthetic vitamins as a maintenance because they can actually be toxic.
1:53.3	There's a lot of studies out there that show that even vitamins can cause cancer.
1:59.6	Now, some of the synthetic vitamins are talking about are like beta
2:03.1	keratin or other phytonutrients, but there's also studies on even vitamin E, creating a lot of
2:08.9	problems. So when you hear this and the news that vitamins cause cancer, whatever, realize that
2:15.4	they're always using synthetic vitamins in these studies. They're not
2:18.4	using food concentrates, whole food concentrates at all. The other exception for synthetic vitamins
2:25.5	would be the synthetic version of B1, benphotamine. This is a fat-siable vitamin B-1, which doesn't appear to have any side effects,
2:38.8	but it's great to penetrate the fat layer in your brain, the fat layer around your nervous system,
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