What are fractionated vitamins and how do they differ from natural vitamins from food sources?
Most major vitamin brands and even those sold in health food stores use synthetic – or fractionated – vitamins that are made in a lab from synthetic sources. These unnatural vitamins are difficult for the body to assimilate. Often these vitamins are not the entire form of the vitamin and therefore do not produce the desired response in the body. For example, Ascorbic Acid is commonly referred to as Vitamin C but even though manufacturers are allowed by the FDA to call Ascorbic Acid vitamin C it is in fact only part of the vitamin C complex. In order for it to work it must take the rest of the vitamin parts from other supplements or foods you eat to have any real affect at all. Of course mega doses of vitamin C have been known to demonstrate results in reducing some forms of cancers but these massive quantities can have an adverse affect over the long term. The fact is that for a normal, healthy person taking small RDA recommended amounts of Ascorbic Acid alone probably has very little
