"Wholefood supplements are natural"
This is what the vast majority believe. Think your Vitamin C comes from a citrus fruit? Think again.
Many of today's popular supplements - inlcuding Creatine and L-theanine - aren't extracted from whole foods. They're manufactured through industrial processes in laboratories and turned into isolated powders.
Just because a compound is said to be "found in nature", doesn't mean the supplement in your hand came from nature. Those are two very different things. Maybe it's time we started asking better questions about what we're actually putting into our bodies.
Many also believe that Vitamin D is the same as getting sunlight or from wholefoods. What they do not realise is that the sourcing can vary, most commonly sourced from Lanolin... the waxy material found in sheep's wool. Is this process simple? By no means - the wool is washed in detergents and surfactants, centrifuged to separate the water, which is then decolourised (with hydrogen peroxide), and deodorised. Simple, right? And that is just the first step in getting the wax from the sheep's wool. Then, the process continues with stages of purification using chemical solvents like petroleum ether and cyclohexane.
Regardless of legal disclaimers and supporting evidence used by pharmaceutical companies, does this process resemble our traditional wholefood sources like cod liver oil or sunlight?
Why is taking cod liver oil a better alternative? The simple answer is: quality sourcing and traditional methods. The Wild Alaskan cod livers are fermented over several months with a starter culture, then the beneficial microbes that break down the liver tissue, gradually breaking down the liver tissue which releases the oil naturally contained within the cells, which then rises to the surface. Other processes with wholefood Vitamin C are just fruits & wholefood sources which are freeze-dried to retain nutrients... nothing lost!
Why not try supplementing the way nature originally intended?
