Most of believe dietary supplements have more vitamins and minerals than whole foods like fruits and vegetables.
In this video I’m talking about a very strange discovery that the supplement industry’s tries to hide from the general public.
Imagine two people suffering vitamin c deficiency. We give one a single tablet of 500mg of vitamin c , we give the other a apple weighing 100gm. On an average an apple contains only 6mg of vitamin c, after few hours if we measure the effect of vitamin c in these individuals we can observe an astonishing increase in the antioxidant activity in the person who ate the apple which is equivalent 1500 mg of vitamin c.
How is the possible. How come the potency of 6mg of vitamin c increase to 250 times just by eating it
Dr. Rui Hai Liu was the first person to study these phenomenon and found apple contains numerous vitamin c like compounds which has similar functions and are more potent. These chemicals include compounds like Quercetin Catechin Phlorizin and Chlorogenic acid. These compounds all together form vitamin c delivering system. Which is the reason for increase in the antioxidant activity.
The greatest advantage of whole food is its complexity, and the biggest weakness of a vitamin tablets are its simplicity.
A single isolated nutrients acts like a singe man orchestra.
Dr Rui Hai Liu published his study in a prestigious science journal, Nature in which he wrote
“Natural antioxidants from fresh fruits could be more effective than a dietary supplement”
In other words chemicals in the form of isolated nutrients will not work as effective as their natural counterparts.
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