Multivitamins From Whole Food Are Better - Why?
05 Jan 2011 08:52:18 AM
After reviewing 38 years of scientific evidence, Dr Robert Fletcher and Dr Kathleen Fairfield, two leading Harvard University professorial level researchers, convinced the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) to rewrite its conservative guidelines on the use of vitamin supplements towards the positive. The articles these authors wrote in the JAMA in June 2002 edition stated:
"Insufficient vitamin and mineral intake is apparently the cause of chronic diseases. Recent evidence has shown that suboptimal levels of vitamins, even well above the levels causing deficiency syndromes, are risk factors for chronic diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, and osteoporosis. A large proportion of the population is apparently at risk for this reason." - Dr Robert Fletcher and Dr Kathleen Fairfield, Vitamins for Chronic Disease Prevention in Adults, JAMA, June 2002.
Multivitamin and minerals are nutritional generally prescribed to:
✔ Overcome common deficiencies (see chart of common deficiency symptoms)
✔ Prevention of chronic disease induced by sub-optimal nutrient levels (see chart of preventable diseases)
✔ Maintain optimum metabolic pathway functions
✔ Increase stress tolerance and performance
✔ Increase antioxidant protection from aging and disease
✔ Support immune defense functions (more on Immunity and nutrients)
We recommend 100% whole food supplements because they have superior bioavailability.
✔ Overcome common deficiencies (see chart of common deficiency symptoms)
✔ Prevention of chronic disease induced by sub-optimal nutrient levels (see chart of preventable diseases)
✔ Maintain optimum metabolic pathway functions
✔ Increase stress tolerance and performance
✔ Increase antioxidant protection from aging and disease
✔ Support immune defense functions (more on Immunity and nutrients)
We recommend 100% whole food supplements because they have superior bioavailability.
"I recommend Innate Response Whole Food Multivitamins for several reasons. With the Multivitamins providing food state nutrients that absorb and digest so easily I get more effective clinical results for my clients. I found that isolated, synthetic vitamins often fail to deliver these benefits, and they frequently create disagreeable symptoms such as digestive upsets." - Graeme Bradshaw, B.Sc., N.D.
Food state multivitamins also have the vital co-factors for vitamins concentrated from foods, making them more safe and efficacious. For example Vitamin C is more active when provided with flavenoid co-factors, abundant in these products from orange and high phenolic food concentrates. As another example, Vitamin E content is more effective when it is in the mixture of Tocopherols (d-alpha, d-beta, d-gamma, d-delta) and Tocotrienols from rice bran concentrate, as found in Innate Response products.
Food state multivitamins also have the vital co-factors for vitamins concentrated from foods, making them more safe and efficacious. For example Vitamin C is more active when provided with flavenoid co-factors, abundant in these products from orange and high phenolic food concentrates. As another example, Vitamin E content is more effective when it is in the mixture of Tocopherols (d-alpha, d-beta, d-gamma, d-delta) and Tocotrienols from rice bran concentrate, as found in Innate Response products.
Northwestern University Cancer Center states: "Carotenoids and other secondary plant compounds evolved as sets of interacting compounds, and because of this complexity it limits the usefulness of reductionist approaches that seek to identify single protective compounds." - Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2003;95:1578-86.
Note that synthetically produced vitamins may actually harm health (example: synthetic beta carotene harmed smokers in cancer studies, and several synthetic antioxidant vitamin studies were inconclusive), wheras many studies have shown the complex of natural mixed carotenoids derived from carrots is protective (i.e. as Alpha & Beta Carotene with cryptoxanthin, lutein, zeaxanthin, lycopene – the so called mixed carotenoids). Note too, Innate Response products have no synthetic vitamin A-palmitate, (which may interfere with Vitamin D metabolism).
Innate Responses’ B complex vitamins are food extracts. They are extracted from Saccromyces cerevisiae, a probiotic yeast. The yeast is fully predigested by enzymes in the manufacturing process, removing all yeast traces*. As compared to synthetically produced B vitamins from other manufacturers, these extracted B vitamins are in the activated form, which are more bio-active. Patients digest and assimilate these with less problems.
Similarly the minerals in the Innate Response's Multiviitamin and Mineral products have been derived from Saccromyces cerevisiae extracts where they are still bound to the complex food matrix rather than being inorganic and therefore more difficult to absorb. Studies show vitamin and mineral absorption is 135 -260% better for the yeast extracted nutrients over the inorganic, synthetic/isolated forms (1).
Innate Responses’ B complex vitamins are food extracts. They are extracted from Saccromyces cerevisiae, a probiotic yeast. The yeast is fully predigested by enzymes in the manufacturing process, removing all yeast traces*. As compared to synthetically produced B vitamins from other manufacturers, these extracted B vitamins are in the activated form, which are more bio-active. Patients digest and assimilate these with less problems.
Similarly the minerals in the Innate Response's Multiviitamin and Mineral products have been derived from Saccromyces cerevisiae extracts where they are still bound to the complex food matrix rather than being inorganic and therefore more difficult to absorb. Studies show vitamin and mineral absorption is 135 -260% better for the yeast extracted nutrients over the inorganic, synthetic/isolated forms (1).
Since it is not only common that average diets have sub optimal levels of vitamins and minerals, and that optimal levels of these micronutrients prevent many of the common chronic diseases, it is strongly recommended to take an absorbable whole-food multivitamin product daily. For similar reasons Omega 3 is also an essential daily supplement. (see more on Omega 3 here).
(*A note on allergies: importantly the products create no reactivity to yeast allergic individuals owing to yeast cells walls being 100% predigested during manufacturing the yeast extract. The products are all gluten, wheat, dairy, corn and soy free).
(1) J.A. Vinson, P.Bose, L. Lemoine* and K. Hsiao Relative Bioavailability Of Trace Elements And Vitamins Found In Commercial Supplements from NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY: CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL ASPECTS Ed D.A.T. Southgate, I.T. Johnson and G.R. Fenwick.
(*A note on allergies: importantly the products create no reactivity to yeast allergic individuals owing to yeast cells walls being 100% predigested during manufacturing the yeast extract. The products are all gluten, wheat, dairy, corn and soy free).
(1) J.A. Vinson, P.Bose, L. Lemoine* and K. Hsiao Relative Bioavailability Of Trace Elements And Vitamins Found In Commercial Supplements from NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY: CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL ASPECTS Ed D.A.T. Southgate, I.T. Johnson and G.R. Fenwick.
