According to Scrip OTC News French collaborators of the anti-vitamin movement have poured huge sums of money into a legal battle in order to have doses of vitamin C over 800mg labelled as a medicine. The magazine, which is aimed at investors, says the market for vitamin C in France is worth $69 million.
Therefore I conjecture that the collaboration with people against life extension is make purely for the profit motive and is in fact a Virtual Collaboration. Scrip OTC NEWS goes on to say that the move enables pharmacies to sell larger does at higher prices than supermarkets, who had been accounting for 26% of the market’s volume and 16% of its value. (ie consumers were getting a good deal.) On the face of it, it appears that people will still be able to buy life sustaining does of vitamin C. However the pharmacists’ virtual collaborators, the pro- death lobby, will be able to use the situation to get higher dose vitamin C, and other vitamins, banned altogether. The magazine goes on to say that what they term “safety” limits proposed in France may be enforced by lawyers there:
The word synthetic means two things: – manmade – occurs nowhere in nature From the outset, it is crucial to understand the difference between vitamins and vitamin activity. The vitamin is the biochemical complex. Vitamin activity means the actual biological and cellular changes that take place when the stage is set for the vitamin complex to act. Think of it like gas and a car. Pumping the gas into the tank doesn’t necessarily mean the car is going anywhere. Other conditions and factors must be also present, in order for Activity to occur.
I have a book on vitamins that came out in 1988 and it already lists bone and joint issues among the side effects of taking vitamin A. Title of the book is “Complete guide to vitamins, minerals & supplements” and it is by H. Winter Griffith. Another side effect it mentions is premature closure of the end parts of bones where growth occurs from birth to adolescence. The SCIENCE of VITAMINS. Minerals, and other necessary supplements is an EXACTING Science, Anyone who is interested in his or her health, should make an effort to ecome thoroughly acquainted with his critical subject matter. Yout health and life span may depend on it!Everything has side-effects, including vitamins.
The study by doctors at University Hospital in Uppsala was reported in Thursday’s New England Journal of Medicine. It involved 2,322 men. Vitamin A is known as an antioxidant. Antioxidants are believed to reduce the risk of cancer and heart disease. Government studies show one-third to one-half of Americans take vitamin A or multivitamins containing it. Vitamin A can interfere with cells that produce new bone, stimulate cells that break down old bone and interfere with vitamin D, which helps the body maintain normal calcium levels.
Large amounts of vitamin A are found in beef liver and fish liver oils; smaller amounts are in egg yolks, butter and cream. Milk and some cereals are fortified with vitamin A and, per serving, provide about 10 percent of daily needs. And substances in dark green, leafy vegetables and yellow vegetables and fruits are converted to vitamin A in the body.
Why did they recommend not to take fish oil supplements more than once per week, does it have a high vitamin A content? If so, how much? Depends on the fish and what it eats. My salmon oils that I have here at work only list how much fat and which kind of fat. They make no claims for any kind of vitamin at all. But one reason some fish oils aren’t good for you is that they’re high on the food chain if they’re big enough to go after commercially (sardines to the contrary) and that means they’ve eaten a lot of other fish or vegetation. Which means accumulations of heavy metals and other toxic crud That’s nice to know, but not everything that is true in animals is true in humans.
This seems to be a relatively new area of information for people like me who have had anticonvulsant medication for years – I thought I’d heard it all, but recent studies seem to suggest that it is a problem, albeit with a low public profile. I was taking Tegretol (carbamazepine) for years, but the regime I’ve been on for the past 3 years is an Epilim (sodium valproate) and Lamictal (lamotrigine) combination – from what I read via Medline articles, this combination is a particular problem in regard to Vitamin D deficiency.
Don’t pop too many vitamin A supplements, because large amounts, particularly megadoses available from health-food stores, can be dangerous, the US government says in guidelines that update how much of certain nutrients should be consumed for good health. Men need 900 mg of vitamin A a day and women 700, says Tuesday’s report by the Institute of Medicine, which slightly lowers the ‘recommended daily allowance,’ or RDA, of the nutrient.
