Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Once again, the entire study was based on people taking synthetic vitamin E, which has the opposite molecular structure of natural vitamin E (the kind of vitamin E found in nuts, seeds and other foods). Natural vitamin E is well known to prevent heart attacks and enhance cardiovascular disease, and there exists an abudance of clinical evidence to support that notion. Highlighting the dangers of synthetic vitamins is a favorite scare tactic of the conventional medical community. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Don't believe for a minute that bioidentical hormones are the same thing as the synthetic hormones used by conventional practitioners, and don't buy hook, line, and sinker into the conventional orthodoxy that they haven't been "tested" enough. The synthetic ones have been tested to death and we're still not sure how safe they are. The body knows what to do with the ones it makes—it's been using them just fine for as long as you've been alive.
The idea that synthetic and bioidentical hormones are the same thing doesn't pass the smell test. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 In 2002, there were 139 million prescriptions written for "synthetic and semisynthetic narcotics." Of these, 81 million—with sales of
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$1.5 billion—were for the generic category, hydrocodone, of which Vicodin is the best known brand. Use is increasing at breakneck speed. In 2002, there were 13.1 million people in the United States who had used Vicodin at least once. Just one year later, in 2003, the number was 15.7 million.
Semisynthetic narcotics have little to do with reducing mortality, our primary focus in this book. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Researchers tested synthetic, low-dose versions of vitamin E on populations with high risks of heart attack or stroke. When deaths occurred within the sample population group, the headlines read, "Vitamin E causes Heart Attack!" It's a preposterous conclusion; but this is how deeply distorted science has become today in its quest to promote the interests of corporations. (In truth, researchers weren't even using vitamin E, they were using a synthetic chemical with a molecular structure that isn't the same as vitamin E from plants. |
Gabriel Cousens
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 The second is a report on microwaved baby formula, from The Lancet of December 9, 1989:
Microwaving baby formulas converted certain trans-amino acids into their synthetic cis-isomers. synthetic isomers, whether cis-amino acids or trans-fatty acids, are not biologically active. Further, one of the amino acids, L-proline, was converted to its d-isomer, which is known to be neurotoxic (poisonous to the nervous system) and nephrotoxic (poisonous to the kidneys). It's bad enough that many babies are not nursed, but now they are given fake milk (baby formula) made even more toxic via microwaving. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 These synthetic vitamins – which are really just industrial chemicals – may be called "Vitamin E" or "Vitamin A" or even "Vitamin C" but they have no functional resemblance to the real vitamins that occur in nature. Every single study over the past two decades that has sought to discredit Vitamin E, for example, focused on using synthetic Vitamin E in order to show harm. It is curious that no researcher from the world of conventional medicine will ever test the natural, full-spectrum vitamins, nutrients and phytochemicals that appear in nature. You know why? |
| This research published in JAMA does remind us of one important point, however: synthetic chemicals are harmful to human health. If you take cheap "vitamins" made of these synthetic chemicals, you are doing yourself more harm than good. These cheap vitamin manufacturers, by the way, are usually owned by pharmaceutical firms. I would personally never take vitamins purchased at common retailers such as Wal-Mart or Walgreens. I only recommend and consume vitamins from high-end nutritional supplement companies. |
Steven V. Joyal
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 The 2003 published results of the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) study, which used conjugated equine estrogens and synthetic progestogens (progestins), showed mixed results and raised a great number of questions. The WHI study results included evidence of an increase in the risk for breast cancer and heart disease, yet reduced the risk of hip fractures and colorectal cancer. One reason for the results in the WHI trial is the use of synthetic progestogens rather than natural progesterone. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| The idea that synthetic and bioidentical hormones are the same thing doesn't pass the smell test. synthetic hormones, made from the urine of pregnant mares, may be similar to the ones your body makes, but they're not identical, else they couldn't be patented. In biochemistry, if two substances vary by even a few molecules, they can be vastly different compounds.
But I digress. |
Bottom Line Health
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| What you may not know: In October 2005, the Agricultural Appropriations Conference Committee voted to allow synthetic ingredients into foods labeled "organic." Therefore, yogurt, pudding and other items may be considered organic even if they contain synthetic additives.
What you can do: Whenever possible, buy organic meats and dairy products.
For produce, choose organic varieties if you're buying one of the items found by the Environmental Working Group (a nonprofit group of researchers who investigate environmental health threats) to be among the most contaminated (see chart on page 293). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Synthetic vitamins
Many children's vitamins are made with cheap, synthetic "vitamin" chemicals that actually harm people who take them. Plus, many are loaded up with artificial colors, sucrose and chemical sweeteners. Avoid cheap, store-bought children's vitamins or anything containing cyanocobalamin (a toxic form of vitamin B12). Quality children's vitamins are available through sources like Nordic Naturals (fish oils) and www.IntegratedHealth.com (also check www.WellnessResources.com for high-quality supplements).
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Gabriel Cousens
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| Supplementation with 600 mg of synthetic alpha-tocopherol daily (equivalent to 300 mg of natural, RRR-alpha-tocopherol) for fourteen days resulted in a reduction in the oxidative stress marker. One study reported improved control of blood glucose levels with supplementation of only 100 IU of synthetic alpha-tocopherol daily (equivalent to 45 mg of natural, RRR-alpha-tocopherol).116
In a human double-blind study, twenty-four hypertensive patients were given 600 mg of vitamin E per day. Those given vitamin E showed increased insulin sensitivity and improved concentrations of cellular magnesium. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 Avoid cosmetics that include parabens (methyl-, ethyl-, propyl-, and butylparabens); phthalates; sodium laureth/sodium laurel sulfate; butyl/ethyl acetate; petrolatum; cocamide DEA/lauramide DEA; diazolidinyl urea; propylene glycol; toluene; synthetic colors and fragrances; and triethanolamine. Likewise, avoid using synthetic perfumes and cologne. Studies show that many perfumes and colognes often contain phthalates and parabens (both of which are known endocrine disruptors). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Synthetic vitamins
Many children's vitamins are made with cheap, synthetic "vitamin" chemicals that actually harm people who take them. Plus, many are loaded up with artificial colors, sucrose and chemical sweeteners. Avoid cheap, store-bought children's vitamins or anything containing cyanocobalamin (a toxic form of vitamin B12). Quality children's vitamins are available through sources like Nordic Naturals (fish oils) and www.IntegratedHealth.com (also check www.WellnessResources.com for high-quality supplements).
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Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Many of these studies used intravenous injections of synthetic vitamin A in massive quantities.) No one—repeat, no one—consumes that amount of vitamin A, ever. Ever. Secondly, the natural vitamin A found in liver does not seem to cause the same toxicity problems that synthetic vitamin A does. In fact, the amount of vitamin A in one slice of liver is a little less than that in two carrots, for goodness' sake. Thirdly, a study carried out in Rome (published in Teratology, January 1999) found no congenital malformations among 120 infants exposed to more than 50,000 IUs of vitamin A per day. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| It also comes from taking nutritional supplements in their natural food forms, not as synthetic chemicals. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| Although one badly designed study a few years ago seemed to indicate that beta-carotene by itself had no value in preventing cancer, what wasn't well publicized is that the study subjects were heavy smokers and that the beta-carotene given to them was a synthetic kind that behaves quite differently in the body than the real deal. The real lesson from that study is that the carotenoids perform best working as a unit, and should be obtained in their natural—not synthetic —form. According to Walt Willett, Ph.D. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Highlighting the dangers of synthetic vitamins is a favorite scare tactic of the conventional medical community. By scaring consumers away from vitamin E, they can convince people to take high-profit pharmaceuticals instead of more affordable nutritional supplements. And while nutritional supplements like ephedra get banned for being associated with a few dozen overdose deaths, blockbuster prescription drugs like Vioxx, which are suspected of contributing to more than 27,000 heart attacks, remain perfectly legal and FDA-approved. There's little hope that the trend will reverse, either. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 Here are four additional challenges to these assumptions.
14. synthetic Genes: Most foreign genes used in GM crops are not natural. They are synthetic. Since plant and bacteria genes use different sequences to "describe" certain amino acids, the codes of bacterial genes have to be altered so they will "read" correctiy in the plant. Cummins says, "Use of synthetic genes has become pervasive in genetic engineering and the synthetic genes are assumed to be equivalent. But there are a lot of differences between them that have been ignored. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Getting rid of synthetic chemicals in your body
Mike: More and more consumers are now acutely aware of the chemical burden that is being placed on our bodies. Even mainstream journalists are aware. I think it was National Geographic that had a journalist who went and had all the testing done and found out that he had hundreds of synthetic chemicals in his organs. Dr. Gabriel Cousins down in southern Arizona is doing a lot of testing on this right now, and is finding hundreds of chemicals in the heart, the liver, the brain and the kidneys. They are embedded in all the tissues. |
Hyla Cass
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 Both contain some version of estrogen, which is a depleting drug, and—unless the woman is menopausal and has had a hysterectomy—will always contain some form of progestin, a synthetic version of progesterone. Other forms of hormonal birth control that come in patches or implants also contain these same drugs, and so are likely to cause the same depletions.
Action: These medications are not truly hormone replacements. They are synthetic modifications of the hormone molecules that are close enough copies to fool the receptor sites on the cells. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 Eventually researchers and drug companies took these concerns more seriously, and in the 1980s lower-dosage versions of the pill were created, many with 1 mg of synthetic progestin (ly-nestrenol or norethindrone), along with 100 meg of estradiol, the synthetic estrogen, which is still considered high by many scientists. (The most recent forms of the pill contain 20 meg of estradiol.)
Second Generation
As researchers learned more about the pill they realized that such high doses of estrogen and progesterone were not necessary. |
Hyla Cass, M.D.
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| Both contain some version of estrogen, which is a depleting drug, and—unless the woman is menopausal and has had a hysterectomy—will always contain some form of progestin, a synthetic version of progesterone. Other forms of hormonal birth control that come in patches or implants also contain these same drugs, and so are likely to cause the same depletions.
Action: These medications are not truly hormone replacements. They are synthetic modifications of the hormone molecules that are close enough copies to fool the receptor sites on the cells. |
Gabriel Cousens
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| The second is a report on microwaved baby formula, from The Lancet of December 9, 1989:
Microwaving baby formulas converted certain trans-amino acids into their synthetic cis-isomers. synthetic isomers, whether cis-amino acids or trans-fatty acids, are not biologically active. Further, one of the amino acids, L-proline, was converted to its d-isomer, which is known to be neurotoxic (poisonous to the nervous system) and nephrotoxic (poisonous to the kidneys). It's bad enough that many babies are not nursed, but now they are given fake milk (baby formula) made even more toxic via microwaving. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 The Bt gene in Bt 176 showed a 94% similarity with a synthetic crylAc gene, but only 65% with the natural Bt crylAb gene. The authors also write, "Many Bt transgenes are synthetic, including the one in Bt 176. They are hybrids of multiple toxins. That means Bt transgenes not only risk killing more species of insects than intended, but may also contain previously unknown toxicities for other animals and human beings." They further suggest that the sequence of the multiple transgenes inserted into the Bt 176 may be unstable and appear to have rearranged.59 (See section 4.3 |
| Inserted genes are synthetic. Since plant and bacteria genes use different sequences to code for certain amino acids, part of bacterial genes have to be altered so they will be read efficiently in the plant. Crop developers and regulators have made the assumption that synthetic and natural genes are equivalent, but there is insufficient research to verify this assumption.
3. Some crops stack multiple transgenes on a single DNA. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Knowing where to start is simple: Get all the synthetic chemicals out of your life. Permanently!
Here's a must-read book if you want to learn even more about the burden of synthetic chemicals on your heart, liver, nervous system and entire body: The Hundred-Year Lie by Randall Fitzgerald. The book will open your eyes and leave you shocked about just how much the consumer product corporations have been poisoning you. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 People have suddenly come to realize that brand-name dog food is so toxic that it will kill your dog, that toys from China contain dangerous levels of lead, that perfume products can contain as many as 21 different cancer-causing chemicals and that even popular laundry detergent products wash your clothes in a toxic brew of synthetic chemicals and artificial fragrances. Sites like NewsTarget and the Organic Consumers Association (www.OrganicConsumers.org) are, of course, trying to do something about this by educating consumers. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Obviously, they have to make many choices to keep those costs down. The synthetic forms of B vitamins, the non-coenzyme forms, or the cheapest minerals they can find and so on. That fools many consumers who do not know the difference.
Dr. Liers: I also want to talk a little bit about excipients. You need a certain amount of excipients to make something. You cannot do without them. For example, if you make a 3-milligram melatonin, and it is in the smallest number-four cap you can get, you still must have a hundred milligrams of something else filling it up. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 While the FDA will openly tolerate useless synthetic vitamins (which are mostly made by pharmaceutical companies anyway), the rogue agency will not tolerate herbal products that actually work to cure cancer, halt diabetes, reverse heart disease or otherwise strip revenues from Big Pharma by eliminating disease.
Personally, I hope you support this company just to spite the FDA. You can learn more about their bitter melon product at www.charanteausa.com
Bitter melon really works to help regulate blood sugar. In my view, it works better than diabetes drugs. |
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