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Finding the Pieces
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Plan: Mishmash
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Location: Maryland, US
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Originally Posted by dina1957
It depends what you mean my natural. In my book natural means what our body obtains/digests/manufactures from food, while man-made means all supplements, both natural and syntetics. Even Vit.A, E, and D supplements come in both syntetic and natural version, I still consider all of them man-made and therefore, easy to overdose. Any Vit. supplements especially fat soluble, are easy to overdose. But while water soluble like C and B we can simply get rid of by drinking more water, fat soluble can accumulate in fatty tissues and start to build up. As I understand, natural vit.D comes from fatty fish, egg youlks and is made by exposing our body to UVA/B for at least 15 minutes a day and is manufactured from cholesterol.
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In my book natural means from a natural source, i.e., fish liver.
Interesting that you consider only vitamins from consumed source natural. That's not my definition, especially since you'd have to consume a lot of calories to obtain the RDA, not even ODA, from food. Further, you might consider natural/processed and synthetic/processed the same but the body can tell the difference and the synthetic/processed is toxic to the body in relatively small doses. Either that or the body doesn't know what to do with it because it's synthetic and parks it in the liver and tissues causing problems.
As I said, natural, by my definition, vitamin A and D is not toxic at fairly large amounts. That's because natural vitamins A, D, and E, yes excess is stored in fat but that is not a problem because the excess stores in fat in it's inactive form and only taken out and activated when needed.
Oh, and that 15 minutes in the sun? That's a proven fallacy that way it's most alluded to. That's 15 minutes in direct sun with about 80% of the body exposed not just arms and face.
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