Understanding Vitamins and Their Effects

One of the craziest things that I had to unlearn as a biochemist is that vitamins aren't real.

All right, let me explain this one because there's some nuance here.

What we call a vitamin, an isolated chemical like vitamin C, ascorbic acid, right, or vitamin D,

vitamin K, all of these are isolated compounds. The first problem here with the use of the

scientific method is that nothing in nature exists in isolation. And so when we isolate something,

we have to adulterate the sample, right? So to think how we initially isolated vitamin C,

all vitamins truly, they're like 18-20 step processes.

where we have to add heavy metals, petroleum, acetone, ethers,

tons of chemicals that are completely synthetic and extremely harmful.

And so we actually lack the scientific control, right?

We don't control for every method used in the isolation of these so-called vitamins.

And then when we get to the end point, when you read these original papers,

which I've done and they're all available, you know, publicly,

and you can read my interpretation in the academy that I run,

when you read them, they take, you know, five or six end products

and they test them on different animals and eventually humans

and they decide which one has the greatest effect in the body.

And so they test them like pharmaceutical drugs, right?

So pharmaceutical drugs don't exist in nature.

vitamins take on the exact same process as pharmaceutical drugs. They act the

same in the body, they're isolated the same way, in the same labs, using the same

chemicals, you even add petroleum. So vitamins are just greenwash

pharmaceutical drugs. They act the same, completely. So avoid them at all costs.

There's something in food that we need but the whole is always greater

than the parts. Eating the whole food you're guaranteed to not have

anything adulterated. So if you do take a supplement make sure that it's a whole

food.

Right?

You can put a whole food in a capsule and it doesn't not make it a whole food, but again,

your relationship with these things is really important, right?

Like the relationship with medicine or supplements can even be more important than the medicine

or the supplement themselves, right?

Because our relationship, our beliefs are so powerful.

So keep that in mind.

But again, if you want to learn more, comment vitamins down below.