Regarding truly natural supplements: in misconception #1, you start talking about the differences in the processes of creating synthetic vitamin supplements vs. naturally occurring supplements. It would be great for you to share about that.
Dr. Brian Clement: 92% of the nutritional supplements on the market globally, certainly here in the US are chemicals. They come from laboratories and chemical factories. Most of them are the pharmaceutical industry or offshoots of them.
As an example, most are made of petrochemicals, oil products. The best example of vitamin supplements: they make vitamin B6 out of coal tar. Any of you listening today on your radio in your automobile, you’re driving on the top of coal tar. That’s what they make vitamin B6 from.
To make it a truly natural supplement, they would have to find a plant that has the B vitamins in it. They would then with water, a very gentle process, exhume or extract out of that plant the B vitamin. By the way, when you take it from a whole natural source like that: vitamin B6, vitamin B1 or vitamin B2 or vitamin B3 are not isolated in solo acts. They symbiotically work together in a symphony. You listen to the London symphony playing a piece from Mozart vs. a kid who just picked up the guitar yesterday and is playing hard rock music.
When you extract it out with water like that, without heating it, processing it or killing it; it then gets into the body with a symphonic approach. All the violin section, all of the horn section, all of the percussion section, the piano, etc, etc…the body relates to that and can digest it.
When you place in the body a chemical isolated nutrient, like from coal tar or some other petrochemical process – the body’s immune system looks at it and says – who are you?
Because this isolated chemical cannot respond correctly, the immune system literally goes and attacks it. This is how you get sick from taking these chemical supplements. What I am telling you today in total is not my opinion, it’s scientifically factual, and I will debate anyone at any organization, institution, university in the world and I will win the debate on supplementation.
We have a flawed foundation when it comes to nutritional supplements. The same paradigm we have from pharmaceutical industry thinking is the same exact paradigm we have in supplementation.
We use nutritional supplements in an orthomolecular way as medicine, and somehow with our arrogance and lack of intelligence and consciousness in science – in most of the biological sciences and the scientists that operate those sciences – we literally think we know as much as God and nature and that we have an infinite ability in a man-made laboratory with chemical processes like I’ve just mentioned to you something that mimics nature 100%. That’s a bizarre thought to begin with.
If I were to ask a high school educated person if that makes sense to them, they would say no. But somehow it makes sense to our doctors and Phds because arrogance reigns. They literally think they have figured out everything nature has to offer.
Which is bizarre in the mere fact that if anyone is alive long enough and working in the field of nutrition, we discover things on a weekly basis.
How we can be so callus that Fletcher discovered the very first nutritional supplement in London in 1905 out of a whole food, and by 1933 we create the first chemical process – vitamin C, ascorbic acid. What was that? 28 years? It took us 28 years to do that.
Now why did we do that? MONEY. Listen closely, money. If I have to go out every single year and collect with human hands whole plant foods and bring them in to a whole food processing plant that may take 2 or 3 days of laborious labor to water extract, make sure it’s not heated or chemicalized or bonded in any way as we do with the Hippocrates LifeGive supplements(which you can purchase from Hippocrates Instiute Supplements), it costs a lot of money. Every single year those human hands cost more money to fund to go out and pick the plants.
By 1933, Merck of Germany, a pharmaceutical Company, knew the future of supplementation, knew this was going to be another wing of Big Pharma, said we don’t want to do that. Let’s get our young scientists to find what we can do in the laboratory for vitamin C.
When they made vitamin C ascorbic acid, they left behind 7/8 of it. Only 1/8 is ascorbic acid. Certainly if you’ve been to those holistic doctors who don’t know their head from a hole in the ground, they give you thousands and thousands of milligrams in an IV, your immune system freaks out and says we have to get rid of this highly acid, highly chemical substance. Now, what you think is helping you – it’s especially heart wrenching when I hear them say this helps you with cancer – your body is weakened and the cancer has a chance to grow since your system is over there getting rid of ascorbic acid rather than vitamin C.
If in fact you put whole food vitamin C or ascerola cherry; you would be getting all the whole food vitamin C you need, taking a supplement like Hippocrates or other ethical Cos make (8% of us do)…then your body is going to say, wow, that’s great, it’s going to put muscles on my immune system cells, make my red blood cells stronger so that when I have muscles and strength in my cells – when the free radicals come to kill me, that’s how all aging and premature aging and disease, every single disease occurs is free radical damage. My cell is going to have the muscle to punch it and say, I’m not going to die.
That’s called antioxidant effect that Dr. Harmon at the Univ. of Nebraska (one of the great schools of scientific medicine and nutrition) in 1954 discovered and that’s the antioxidant free radical – by the way, he was right in 1954. What you need to do is to take whole food vitamin C to get the benefit, not an isolated chemical. 98% of all vitamin C on the market is a chemical, ascorbic acid.
