What are isolated chemical vitamins and minerals?

What are isolated chemical vitamins and minerals?

In recent, there are different types of isolated vitamins and minerals available in the marketfor example vitamin C, vitamin B, Calcium and etc. Therefore, most consumers believe that the usage of supplements in isolated from has become a common practice.

Ascorbic acid as an example, however, is never isolated in nature, but occurs in a food matrix, molecularly embedded to other food elements including bioflavonoids, proteins, carbohyDr.ates and lipids. This food form is just what the body requires to process the nutrients. On the other hand the body has difficulty in recognizing and processing the chemically isolated forms. The digestive process requires a delivery system where nutrients are taken from the gut into serum (the blood) so that they can be utilized appropriately. The delivery system is dependent on proteins to provide the vehicle for transport. Because isolated chemicals are not embedded to protein, they are poorly absorbed and bioavailability is retarded. The absorption factor for most chemical isolates is in the area of 5% and very rarely exceeds 20%. This may be the reason that many scientists and doctors have suggested that taking large amounts of supplements is only useful for producing expensive urine.

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