Health Theory Development

HEALTH THEORY DEVELOPMENT is an important concept to nail down. It reveals why it is not only very difficult to construct and prove vitamin theories, but that this is an arena that lends itself to widespread fraudulent studies.  

Analytical applications for Developing New Vitamin Health Theories

      Flaws in understanding human physiology perpetuate faulty vitamin function theories leading to incorrect research results plus mistakes in vitamin forms and dosages.

    Here are bullet examples of these FALSE premises (simply not true):

• Water soluble B vitamins are safe because in excess they are flushed out of the body 
  • Excess Vitamin B6 nerve damage (also with deficiency too)
  • Excess Vitamin B6 on increased diuretic action leading to water elimination, dehydration
  • Excess Folic acid on reduction of killer cell activity and cancer acceleration
  • Excess Folic acid with low vitamin B12 on impairment of cognitive functions
  • Excess vitamin B1 on cancer cell multiplication and promotion                                           
• That excess anti-oxidants would prevent disease by limiting free radical damage  
  • Excess anti-oxidants limit positive functions for some radicals 
  • Excess of some anti-oxidants turn around their actions into pro-oxidants instead
• Taking extra vitamins always increases their function or activity 
  • Vitamins and minerals have a range of intakes that is optimal
  • Both too low as well as too high can generate detrimental effects
• Only the most active one of the 8 member vitamin E family is necessary or given vitamin E units 
  • Vitamin E is a family of 8 related forms, 4 tocopherols and 4 tocotrienols, alpha, beta, delta & gamma
  • While d'alpha tocopherol remains active the longest, the other 7 members have unique functions that d'alpha tocopherol does not perform, I.E. cholesterol reduction, dementia protection, cancer influence, nitrous oxide breakdown 
• Natural and synthetic vitamins are the same 
  • See this article for discussion why this statement is false
• The body has elaborate mechanisms to balance mineral levels so maintaining dietary ratios is not important 
  • Balance and ratio of minerals is corrected and maintained by the Kidneys
  • Minerals control pH, or acid & alkaline balance
  • This balance uses up energy and minerals in this process
  • This mineral balance activity takes them away from other important functions, like bone density
  • 2 cellular mineral pumps control balance of minerals within cells, the sodium/potassium and the calcium/magnesium pumps
  • These pumps and the mineral exchanges are necessary for muscle contraction, nerve impulses, enzyme actions, etc 
• The body has extensive balancing ability to maintain the acid / alkaline pH of blood, other fluids, and tissues within narrow ranges so dietary control of acid balance is unnecessary 
  • Yes, pH levels of tissues and fluids vary very little in the body, 
  • But the process for this maintenance takes energy and uses up minerals, either alkaline forming or acid forming
  • This use of minerals takes them away from other vital body functions
• Modern medicine, based on the germ theory, fails to satisfy all known and observed health and disease facts 
  • Immune system protection levels can vary from strong to weak against disease causing germs.
  • The medium or conditions inside the body, especially intestinal bacteria, either control and kill germs or feed and allow germs to grow in numbers and cause a disease. 
  • This explains why everyone exposed to the same germ may not become ill.
• Modern medicine's approach to heart disease control by lowering cholesterol is only partially correct 
  • Research is looking more at chronic inflammation as the chief cause since cholesterol levels vary widely in heart patients from low to normal to high
  • Cholesterol is needed to fight infections as well as control fluid movement into and out of cells
  • A person who takes drugs to lower cholesterol is more likely to develop infections during hospital care than a person with their naturally low or normal or high cholesterol levels.

Below is an attempt to show the multiple complex aspects of how vitamin functions interact and may be associated with the unfortunately common disease of breast cancer. 

Understanding Vitamin functions in Breast Cancer to clarify controversial findings in next article.

Scientific Status for Vitamins

Scientific Status of Vitamins

Scientific methodology dictates that when new study results challenge current existing theories, they must be diligently tested many times and either verified and accepted or disproved and discarded. But instead today, some of these new discoveries are the ones getting attacked without verification, such as the Nurses' Health Study results showing increased bone fracture risk over the long term from greater milk consumption. Have you heard this before?

SIDEBAR: One major goal of this website is to explain how controversial study results might occur, such as the finding that increased milk consumption increased bone fracture risk instead of reducing it as the Dairy Industry has promoted for so many years. 

Early vitamin research results were mostly favorable studying vitamin levels arriving just in food. The current study findings using the supplements of isolated vitamins or minerals, thought to be the active nutrient responsible for the food benefits, have not consistently shown these same positive results. Some are positive, many are neutral, and a few are reporting adverse findings. Here is where science is failing to connect the right dots.

This example illustrates the "logic" here. Vitamin E has been repeatedly tested for heart disease benefits. The anti-oxidant disease theory says increasing vitamin E levels, an anti-oxidant, should result in positive effects to protect the heart. And it often does, but the lack of consistent positive results should have either changed this theory, or added another factor, such as the major use of the synthetic form of vitamin E or using only one isolated natural vitamin E family member, d'alpha tocopherol, out of eight found in nature.

Finally, an observant Doctor decided to measure vitamin E blood levels as alpha tocopherol between heart patients and healthy people. To his amazement, the alpha tocopherol levels were nearly the same. It was another vitamin E family member, gamma tocopherol, that consistently measured lower in heart patients. Therefore, under what premise would a Scientist think that adding extra alpha tocopherol vitamin E form would be related to a heart condition? Wouldn't increasing gamma tocopherol with a balanced whole vitamin E family make more sense? article article article

FYI: Of course, the vitamin E form alpha tocopherol is still vital. Read on!

First, the anti-oxidant theory of vitamins is only half right. Anti-oxidants need to be balanced in the body with some pro-oxidation reactions. Plus, Scientists are ignoring some vitamin interactions and failing to recognize vitamin dosage characteristics between food and isolated vitamins. The exact vitamin form and dosage used in a study should be mentioned as part of the result, but are often left out. The SELECT study looking at vitamin E and selenium for prostate health failed to mention that a high dose of the synthetic form of vitamin E was used. There are major differences between synthetic vitamin E and natural E that research results with one form would not necessarily predict the results from the other form. A fact mainstream medicine still refuses to accept. This is explained here. Plus the dosage used would have also generated unbalanced conditions to jeopardize results, which they did. ref

SIDEBAR: The mentioning of these examples should not suggest that the use of synthetic vitamins is always at fault for negative study results. The misuse of isolated natural vitamins is also an issue generating some detrimental actions. Plus, related synergisms could also be in play.

90% or more of Multiple Vitamins Obsolete

For over 75 years now, vitamin Scientists have operated with vitamin theories developed with the limited knowledge at the time in the 1940's. These faulty theories that are still riddled with half truths have influenced vitamin knowledge for so long that the majority, over 90%, of multiple vitamin formulas based upon them are simply obsolete. While there are many areas of effectiveness, the few shortcomings discovered by current research are not gaining the respect they deserve. Only a few innovative companies have changed formulas to capitalize from this new research and stay within the safe nutrient windows of optimal dosages, forms, and synergisms. 

Have you heard a vitamin D expert talk about "vitamin D binding protein" and how it influences bio-availability of vitamin D? Or that the body uses certain free radicals for beneficial functions before antioxidants step in and neutralize them? This should have modified the antioxidant theory of disease long ago. Or that bones are storage sites for excess consumed calcium and chronic overworking of this storage process may be counterproductive and accelerate the aging of bone building cells? This would compromise future bone integrity. Yes, this needs more verification, but it explains the apparent contradictions observed between low calcium intake with strong bone populations versus high calcium intake but weak bones better than any other theory. It can easily be tested for validity, and in fact, already has... ref  ref  This last reference talks about telomere preservation that is associated with longer life for osteoblasts, the bone building cells.

This website will present a clear and science supported view of the necessary updates in vitamin theories to correct these past faults. Science by it's nature is very slow to change or admit mistakes. While there are still issues needing more research, the existing study results are sufficient to show a new direction for vitamin knowledge. You deserve to know now about these novel concepts so you can make informed vitamin supplement decisions. The cost of waiting for mainstream nutrition to catch up could jeopardize your health.  

Vitamin Mis-Steps

Following the 70 year evolution of the Multiple Vitamin formula reveals some of the major vitamin health issues facing consumers today. The first vitamins were mostly natural food concentrates. In 1941, Dudley La Blanc developed one of the first multiple vitamins, Hadacol, for Happy Day Company, containing a mixture of vitamins B1 and B2, iron, niacin, calcium, phosphorous, honey, and diluted hydrochloric acid in 12% alcohol. 

Here are the multiple vitamin changes in general terms since than that created issues.  

• Early Multiple Vitamins had lower vitamin dosages than today and the serving size was usually 6 tablets, 2 three times a day. 
• Six tablets were used due to the large space needed for the appropriate amount of minerals.
• Early sources for vitamins were natural such as cod fish oil for vitamins A&D, algae for beta carotene, liver and Yeast for B-Complex, Wheat germ oil for Vitamin E, Rose hips with ascorbic acid for vitamin C, Bonemeal or Dolomite for minerals. 
• These formulas were nutritionally balanced to body functions and vitamin body usage.
• Plus, early multivitamins had natural food bases such as rice bran and the liver and yeast that also provided the B Vitamins instead of chemcial additives used today.
• The first changes to the multiple: Introduction of the one a day multiples. These often had greater amounts of tiny vitamins while large mineral amounts had to dramatically decrease. This was obviously a convenience move to get more people to take multivitamin products.      
• Next, the nutritionally balanced B vitamin Complex changed from being balanced to body usage amounts to being balanced at all the same amounts. (i.e. Balanced B 50, a misuse of the term balanced)
• As the vitamin dosages grew larger, time-release mechanisms were introduced to attempt to increase vitamin absorption by slowing down the release into the digestive system. This has now proven to be unwise for two reasons. 1. Some tablets did not break down at all. 2. This delayed breakdown hindered nutrient processing for absorption channels.
• Next, the six a day was reduced to 2-4 per day, sometimes by larger tablets or capsules, or just by reducing amounts of some nutrients. 
• The trend was to reduce minerals since they took up so much space and to increase vitamins because they are so small. This was completely counter to what should have taken place. 
• Vitamins are only needed in small amounts due to how the body processes and uses them. As you increase dosages, the body reduces absorption percentage
• The one a day, while still having the same amount of vitamins, began changing to more synthetics which also reduced the need for number of tablets for quantities of natural source material such as liver and yeast. 
• Minerals become part of the structures of your body and should not have been reduced to the low amounts, such as available in the one a day, unless dietary minerals are factored into the totals.
• Both vitamins and minerals form enzymes which are tireless workers and can perform thousands of actions in seconds. This is why vitamins are only needed in small amounts.
• One tablet ingredient change, taking out the starches, had unexpected consequences. The tablets exhibited a greater failure by not breaking apart and releasing the vitamins and minerals. The starches acted like a dry sponge that when becoming wet, swell up which helps break apart the tablet.  Only take quick release tablets, usually mentioned on label.
• It is interesting to note that the B-complex, originally from liver and yeast, reduced from 11 membersin older formulas to just 8 in current formulas. PABA, choline and inositol status changed to nonessential, but they still have vital body functions. NOTE: They all play vital roles for normal brain development, ref, either directly or indirectly, such as PABA buildng up folate levels. Only a few Prenatal formulas provide Choline, but not PABA or inositol since the body does build some of these from food ingredients. ref
• Rose hips was historically added with vitamin C but was not at a significant amount to add much natural form vitamin C.    
• The next change was the introduction of added greens and other food base items. Usually the amounts are so tiny, it is like one half teaspoon of food that is overzealously given mountains of added value. It is better than chemical additives.
• The last change was the introduction of what is sometimes called foodform vitamins or whole food vitamins. Both of these names are quite a stretch for these terms. article 
• With food bases and the yeast from foodform vitamins comes an added elements to consider: CONTAMINATION WITH HEAVY METALS such as lead and ALLERGIES TO YEAST.
• There are only a few real whole food multiples that have vitamins made entirely by nature.
• Nutrient formats in multiples have occasionally experienced new concepts and forms, such as the chelation of minerals with amino acids. 
• Another changing item is the second most disappointing feature is that in all these years, the trend has moved from more natural vitamin sources, such as liver and yeast for B vitamins, fish for vitamin A, carrots and algae for beta carotene, to almost all synthetic. Even the foodform vitamins start out with many synthetics.
• Gummies are a new delivery method that has modified formulas and ingredients for taste. Sugar factor not a good addition and as some vitamins are acid, gummies expose teeth for longer peiods to eating acids. 
• And now the last and largest disappointment originally generated by early science and sanctioned by Government health agencies; Vitamins C & E, plus beta carotene are incomplete and missing vital family members to perform all the necessary functions nature intended.
• Since the vast majority of current multivitamin formulas contain numerous flaws and incomplete formulas, there is a developing concern that the longer one takes these products, there is a greater chance that serious adverse health effects might eventually manifest. here 

There are a few multiples that include some family members, but far too few. THEY ALL SHOULD and will in the future as the resource information presented on this website gains greater exposure.

What If...

...some established health and nutritional facts you believe as truths were really not?

...you learned the germ theory is only half the story? The other half being immune conditions inside the body that either destroy the germs or allow them to multiply into large enough numbers to create disease.

...many degenerative diseases are related to chronic inflammation and reduced cellular energy production, areas of great influence by lifestyle and diet.

...the American dietary pattern and lifestyle fostered disease at rates greater than those in most other Countries? 

...the intelligent use of proper dietary supplements did have the ability to positively impact certain disease states?

...there was proof that multiple vitamin supplements increased longevity (telomeres)?

...you found out that Government health officials and scientists knew all these but remained silent?

What if... you learned these too late?

It is the conjecture of the Vitamin Workshop 101 website, supported by new science, that...

...vitamin supplements could had positive results in some cases, neutral in others, and a few negative results, all depending upon different circumstances at the time and the form and dosage of vitamins coupled with the presence or absence of necessary synergistic elements. 

Why Vitamin Workshop

There are two articles with same name. Go here Why Vitamin Workshop - Why Vitamin Workshop - Vitaminworkshop.com for the other original article.

GUIDE to Optimize Vitamin Choices for Maximum Health Benefits

There are many brands of multiple vitamins in the marketplace today. The majority of them offer basically the sane vitamin formulas just with different vitamin forms and dosages. These factors often make have a significant impact on health over timer.

Only a small handful of vitamin companies have ventured out of the traditional multiple vitamin box and worked to match human phisiology and vitamin science with realitites of health and disease conditions. Finding those vitamin brands is not the simple task it should be. Roadblocks abound from vitamin marketing stories, flaws in scientific theories and research, plus due to Government regulations that create greater confusion with label requirements and limiting facts about format differences. Unless one knows some new scientific vitamin facts that have challenged a few old faulty ones, there is less than a 5% chance of making healthy multiple vitamin choices.

        ...95% of Multiple Vitamins achieve Junk food Status... 

Plus, as internet vitamin offerings have expanded, picking safe and effective vitamins has become even more of a challenge. Also complicating this issue, vitamin companies have been racing to increase vitamin dosages to further confuse and bewilder customer choices. While many people believe more is better, seldom is this true for vitamins once adequate amounts are reached. Thus today, over 95% of available Multiple Vitamin products earn a rating just above "junk food" vitamin status. 

• There are studies that reveal properly used vitamin supplements exhibit profound health building attributes. VITAMINS WORK! But, another side of the coin is also a potential.
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• Supplements, simply due to their nature, may generate adverse effects if not consumed wisely and manufactured correctly. This is sometimes a direct result of how body processes work and also about how vitamins can be hijacked to help diseased cells grow faster.
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• Today over 95% of current multiple vitamin supplements exhibit one or more vitamin flaws in form or dosage, or from a lack of harmony with other nutrients, or under certain body conditions.
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• Sometimes these are just due to normal vitamin functions, such as how antioxidant vitamins might interfere with radicals generated by the immune system to destroy cold viruses. This allows colds to last longer. 
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• Or how vitamins that help cells divide and grow faster would be counterproductive for cancer control. SOME of THESE ISSUES HAVE NOW REACHED CRITICAL MASS. 

Check your awareness of new research findings with this fun and enlightening VITAMIN QUIZ

1ST MAJOR VITAMIN FLAW >go here and then here

EXAMPLES where supplemented VITAMINS and MINERALS have exhibited health influence. 

• Vitamins that protect cholesterol from oxidation (vitamins C&E, beta carotene, CoQ10) or lower cholesterol if it is high (tocotrienols, Omega 3 (plus lowers triglycerides)
• The vitamins that prevent and repair DNA damage (Vitamins B6, B12, Folate, C & E, SGS from broccoli, plus the minerals zinc & phosphorus)?
• Vitamins and phytonutrients that prime the immune system or neutralize toxic chemicals (NAC, vitamins A, D, B6, C, plus beta glucans and also the mineral zinc), 
• Vitamins that prevent and kill potential cancerous cells (IP6 and inositol), and zinc given out to children in clinics once a month in developing Countries to prevent bacterial infections and life threatening diarrhea, and zinc prevents some cancers
• The minerals that prime the alkaline system to safeguard pH control, preventing pathogenic bacterial growth and related numerous conditions? 

Concepts to help enhance meanings and recommendations on this website can be found in these articles: The Big Picture of health and Profound Health. This website operates on the Precautionary Principle if there is even a hint of potential adverse effects.

NOTICE: Some pages on this website go offline for periods of time to be re-worked. Return to check if back. Right now, the Vitamin Criteria section is (NOT) down. This one is the heart and soul of this website. Plus Brand Evaluations is on holiday too.

See Scientific Status of Vitamins to find out why over 90% of multiple vitamins are now obsolete, or should be. 

 CAUTION: Nutritional concepts and the use of vitamins remains to this day a somewhat controversial topic. This website attempts to use physiology, scientific vitamin research, and a touch of common sense to make some reasonable deductions. Do not assume what is presented here is an absolute truth, rather just stepping stones... 

A Look at some other topics covered on this Website:

Here is another concept for supplements that is often overlooked. Vitamin supplements should not disrupt normal body metabolism and nutrient pathways in any adverse way. Plus, they should not overtax body elimination channels, especially liver, kidneys, and bladder. This appears to defeat the benefits of the nutrients in the first place. ref  OK, yes there are a few benefits from certain antioxidant nutrients with excess dosages. While the body ramps up their elimination, they would provide protection for the cells of the elimination organs. But, this might be after they have disrupted digestion, absorption, and assimilation channels.

INSIGHT: Most vitamins and minerals exhibit an optimal range of amounts for benefits with both too low or too high presenting problems for maintaining body health.

Unfortunately, due to just how vitamins and minerals function and are processed by the body, the current usage forms and dosages of many vitamin supplements fail in one or more of these areas. The Public should know which vitamin and mineral forms and dosages potentially may have short-comings for certain subsets of the population plus which body parts and for what conditions. 

 ...96% of Multi-Vitamin Supplements contain errors...

As unbelievable as this sounds, this website will reveal why over 95% of Vitamin Supplements in the marketplace today contain nutrient forms and or dosages that new Scientific research has discovered should be changed. Only a few vitamin Companies are even aware of this new information and have changed nutrient forms and dosages. A few needed changes are actually not new and have existed in flawed forms for over 75 years. This website links to these study results so the vitamin consuming Public can learn how to optimize choices to maximize health benefits. 

 SUMMARY

• Most public information about vitamins and health comes from marketing spin designed to sell vitamins.
• This website begins a process to separate scientific vitamin facts and realities from advertisements that stretch vitamin truths and twist reality.
• Even Science needs to update concepts and theories since some were faulty due to limited technology available at the initial development time which newer research has discovered. article

• What makes this endeavor such a challenge is that since people exhibit many genetic differences, absolute vitamin facts are rare exceptions and numerous generalities mainly serve as guidelines. 
• Over 1000 linked Scientific Studies support the over 230 vitamin workshop website articles.
• Gathered over 40 years from 20,000 hours of Pubmed research. (Pubmed is where Science talks)
• Reporting on novel & unique vitamin truths that safeguard health.
• Some are so new that most people and far too many professionals have not yet learned about them.