Synthetic vs. Natural Vitamins Controversy

Well, this is why, and again, I'll throw back for people and for our regular listeners, they would remember the vitamin paradox. It's a fantastic podcast that we did, and it was one of the first ones really to come out and shine a light on the fact that people are overdosing with vitamins and they think that they're safe, especially the synthetic forms. The amounts of vitamins that people are taking every day is actually doing them harm. And what's really cool, I should say this with a caveat, because one of the tribe members from ATPR Tribe who sent me a little link to an article recently talking about vitamins and the overuse of vitamins in Australia. And they're talking about how a panel of experts have effectively come out and said that vitamins are at best a waste of money and may be doing you harm. And the article goes through and talks about how a lot of the vitamins out there, people are just popping them down. They're not seeing any real benefit. And they go on to say, and, you know, potentially they could be doing harm because the body obviously has to, you know, remove them, you know, and that they can backlog, which is great because that's what we said. The nice thing in the study, and this is something I was in the news article, the thing that I was really surprised about is that they actually said, and they got a little bit wrong and a little bit right. They said, if your diet is adequate, then you don't need them. Well, we know that that's not true because of, obviously, the degradation of the nutrients in our soil. And we've got charts on our handbrakes to health. We saw, Matt, you put up all the charts showing the reduction specifically in minerals, but vitamins as well, too, processing, green harvesting, and we go on. But they also said that natural vitamins were far more effective. So it was really nice to see a balanced review there. But what they probably didn't understand is obviously with ADP science, because of the multi-food, we actually have got those with all of the bioflavonoids and all the rest of it. It bugs me because they don't specify synthetic multivitamins. And what even bugs me more is when they say compared to a balanced diet, they're actually talking about foods fortified with synthetic bloody vitamins. So they go through and say, oh, what it shows here is people that take foods fortified with these vitamins have got the same side effects as the people that take in the synthetic vitamins. vitamins from a capsule and so they they totally wipe out those group of side effects associated with folic acids and the b3s that they're fortifying the foods with um