AVOID These Synthetic Vitamins
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 8 May 2022
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Let’s take a closer look at synthetic vitamins—do they do more harm than good?
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| 0:00.0 | 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. |
| 0:16.9 | I have some very interesting information I want to share with you related to synthetic vitamins. |
| 0:27.7 | From my view point, synthetic vitamins should not be taken on a regular basis for increasing your health. |
| 0:35.0 | Now, if you're taking them for a detoxification program, that's something |
| 0:38.8 | completely different. But taking them on a regular basis, month after month after month, |
| 0:43.8 | could create some problems. So we're going to talk about why. And the reason I'm bringing this up |
| 0:48.3 | is because 98% of all vitamins sold are made synthetically. And the question is, are they the same as natural |
| 0:57.9 | vitamins? And the answer is no, because just because it's similar does not make it identically the |
| 1:04.5 | same. That's like saying an artificial flavoring is exactly the same as a natural flavoring. |
| 1:09.9 | It's not. 90% of all the ascorbic acid or synthetic flavoring is exactly the same as a natural flavoring. It's not. 90% of all the escorbic acid or synthetic |
| 1:14.7 | version of vitamin C comes from China. And the regulation of what you're getting might not be at the |
| 1:20.2 | standards that you really need as well, especially since vitamin C is made from GMO corn with other chemicals, other solvents. Now, ideally, the best way to |
| 1:31.3 | get your nutrients is through food, nutrient-dense foods, but it's very difficult to find foods |
| 1:37.3 | with all of the nutrients that you need. But the other thing to know is that your own microbes in |
| 1:43.7 | your gut make vitamins. Now, the actual |
| 1:47.2 | form of a synthetic vitamin versus a natural vitamin is different. Now, I don't want to get into the |
| 1:53.8 | complexities of synthetic vitamins, but when you have synthetic vitamins, some of that vitamin is in a |
| 2:00.3 | different form. So when it goes to |
| 2:02.4 | your body, like a lock and a key, it's not going to fit. So a good portion of that vitamin is |
| 2:08.1 | going to be wasted. So the absorption rate or the bioavailability of a synthetic vitamin is lower. |
| 2:15.4 | And this is why you see the synthetic vitamins in massive amounts, like 11,000 percent of your |
| 2:24.3 | RDAs. And so a lot of that's going to be passing out through your urine unless it's fat-siable. |
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