Vitamin C ascorbic acid versus natural
is there a difference and what do you
need to know to not get hurt coming
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so that you don't miss anything. Ascorbic
acid is not the same thing as vitamin C
and here's how this works
early research nutrition genius Royal Lee
found that in nature the things that
they call vitamins is a working process
it's a complex it's a machinery that
contains a nutrient enzymes coenzymes
antioxidants and that it needs to be
activated by trace minerals so if any of
these pieces are missing then the whole
machinery falls apart so in the case of
vitamin C for example it contains
something called ascorbinogen,
bioflavonoids, rutin, tyrosinase there's
a factor J K and P it has mineral
cofactors and ascorbic acid in it so
think about this as a clock if you will
a clock is a mechanical or used to be a
mechanical device now it's more of an
electronic but think of it as a
mechanical device back when they had
lots and lots of pieces and it's
something that tells time you have the
hands and you have the face and you have
all little cog wheels and all little
pieces and now someone comes up and they
ask you which piece tells time is it
this one that tells time is it that one
that tells time that's a ridiculous
question because it's the sum total it's
the pieces working together that results
in the ability to tell time and that's
how it is with nutrients that in nature
nothing ever occurs in an isolated
fraction form but unfortunately once
they started
nutrients they were more concerned about
synthesizing nutrients they wanted a
cheap way of mass-producing something so
they said okay which one of these can we
mass produce and they found for example
the antioxidants in vitamin C was easy
to mass-produce so they said oh that's
the ascorbic acid and we can turn it in
we can mass-produce it from corn starch
and glucose and sugar and and
hydrocarbons in doing that along the way
they equated they said ascorbic acid is
the same thing as vitamin C but they
were mistaken and test after test have
shown that pure ascorbic acid does not
have the biological effects that the
complex has the ascorbic acid is
important it's the wrapper it's a
protective an antioxidant is a
preservative it's there to preserve and
protect the other nutrients from
oxidative damage while they're still
growing the antioxidant is not the
nutrient it's the protector it's just a
wrapper so if you just eat the
antioxidant it's like you're just eating
the wrapper and throwing away the
content so what happens in the body is
these things have a certain affinity for
each other they have a liking for each
other they fit together and they attract
each other over the course of the years
you have accumulated a certain amount of
these in your body you're using them but
you also have a certain amount now if
you eat a large amount of ascorbic acid
by itself in its isolated synthetic form
then it will have a tendency to attract
these other components it will pull them
to itself it will fit in a certain way
and by eating an excessive amount of
ascorbic acid you're depleting yourself
of these other components that's why
it's so important to get all of these in
a certain balance and in nature they
always provide the right balance so
isolated ascorbic acid is not
vitamin C and it's not a good idea so
then there are some companies that call
themselves natural that say oh well we
can do better than that so we'll take
the ascorbic acid and then we'll take
some natural things we'll sprinkle some
acerola cherry powder on it will isolate
some bio flavonoids and some tyrosinase
and we'll add it to the ascorbic acid so
now it's natural again we took these
pieces and we just gave you more of all
of them or more of some of them so they
change the proportions maybe and thought
that they had improved on something but
what they're really doing is they're
taking the cogwheels they're taking the
pieces of the watch out and they're
saying okay well I don't think that
one's so important I think this is
important and that's important and
that's important so let's let's take a
bunch of that and we'll throw it in a
bag for you and shake up the pieces and
and here you go here's your clock but
it's not gonna tell time okay it's not
going to tell time if you have
disassembled it and scramble the pieces
nature put things together in a certain
order and it's the it's the context that
your body recognizes it wants the pieces
in the order that they occur in nature
that's how they can be beneficial that's
how they sustain life nutrients come
from things that were alive to keep
things alive so what about antioxidants
aren't they a good thing well let's talk
about what it means accident means that
something is under the influence of
oxygen so oxidation in the body means to
use oxygen to turn fuel into energy
that's how we get energy we oxidize the
fuel that's why we need to breathe all
the time an antioxidant is something
that interferes with that process it
makes it harder for the body to utilize
the oxygen and turn fuel into energy so
therefore and is you probably know
oxygen is the most important new
that we have and if you don't agree with
that then I suggest the following
experiment you put a piece of duct tape
over your mouth and then you hold your
nose for a couple of minutes and let's
see if you don't change your mind and
agree that it's the most important
nutrient we have because without it we
can't make energy and if you take large
amounts of antioxidants it is the same
as suffocation therapy you might just
sort of take every other breath and try
to conserve oxygen to get healthy it's
not going to work so what about all
these healthy foods the vegetables and
the berries that have all those
antioxidants and they tell us that's why
those foods are healthy it's because
they have a lot of antioxidants and
that's not true they are healthy despite
the fact that they have a lot of
antioxidants blueberries for example
have such a significant amount of
nutrients in them that they need a
significant amount of antioxidants to
protect those nutrients so blueberries
are healthy for you despite the fact
that they have antioxidants not because
of it so eat whole food eat things that
nature have produced eat lots of berries
and plants and good quality meats and
stay away from anything synthetic
anything man-made anything fractioned
anything processed because when you
change the perfection of nature you make
it worse it doesn't get better than what
nature made in the first place
supplements can still be a good idea
because even with the best of diet it
can be difficult to get whole food whole
organic food that has all of the
nutrients in sufficient quantities
depleted soils pollution added stress
means that a lot of us are still needing
a little bit of supplementation and if
you get something a nutritional
supplement then make sure that it has
all of these pieces in it the ones that
we use primarily a standard process
because they concentrate food they do it
below body temperature
they retain all of these nutrients
enzymes coenzymes etc that were present
in the original food so please share
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munching down massive amounts of
antioxidants they are shortening their
lives and they're reducing their energy
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