What is the difference in Natural and Synthetic Vitamins and Minerals?
Posted by TriLight Health on Jan 3rd 2019
Q: What is the difference between natural and Synthetic Vitamins and Minerals?
A: To the FDA, "Natural" means a LOT of things, but to us at TriLight Health, it means coming from a PLANT-BASED SOURCE such as herbs, synthetic vitamins, and minerals made by scientists in a laboratory.
They are much less expensive because they are mass-produced without being harvested from real food.
So when you read the ingredients in sports drinks, and they list potassium, you can be sure it's synthetic. They are isolated copies of the molecular structure found in food.
The body knows how to break down and utilize plant-based minerals, but synthetic ones? The assimilation rate is approximately 6% for synthetic minerals and approximately 98% for plant-based minerals. Yes, plant-based minerals are more expensive, but your body can actually absorb and use them!
Our Herbal Mineral Formulas are formulated with herbs that contain naturally occurring minerals, including calcium, magnesium, potassium, chromium, cobalt, iron, niacin, phosphorus, riboflavin, selenium, thiamine, zinc, silica, vitamin A & C, and more!
