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NOTE: When Dr. Royal Lee first established his whole-food vitamin company in 1929, it was named Vitamin Product Co. (V-P vitamins) and later evolved into Standard Process Inc. The vitamin complexes that are mentioned in this newsletter are now known as Standard Process' Cataplexฎ A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. | |
VITAMIN NEWS | |
Vol 8-9, Pages 133-138 | |
VITAMIN PRODUCTS CO MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN | |
SYNTHETIC VS NATURAL VITAMINS | |
Edited by Royal Lee | |
November 6, 1940 | |
When a chemist begins the study of any material, he has as his chief objective the mapping of the molecular structure and he feels that his work is unfinished until he succeeds in synthetically duplicating its construction. Previous to the days of vitamin investigation, no chemist had the temerity to suggest the synthetic production of foodstuffs from non-food sources. The obvious lack of accessory food factors in such products made their commercial exploitation out of the questions, regardless of the fact that it has long been possible to make sugar from calcium carbide (via acetylene) or from wood pulp. In the vitamin field, however, no such practical knowledge of the dangers of consuming synthetic materials has existed in the public mind to protect the layman from exploitation by unscrupulous or ignorant purveyors of nutritional products, who on every hand are barking their ware in health food, grocery and drug stores. Each year sees new advertising campaigns break all sales records with new products of assembled synthetic conglomerations so-called "Vitamins." The buyers are looking for sustenance. Proof that they fail to find it in these mushroom promotions is unmistakable in the short life of each of these trade names in the mind of the public. Here today and gone tomorrow. Every druggist can show a "morgue" of dead products that sold as leaders while the advertising pressure was applied, and were not called for again after the first crop of customers had hopefully laid its money on the counter for the privilege of testing the new and scientifically advertised "Elixir of Life." A product that cannot create its own repeat business is unquestionably worthless, regardless of the so-called "biological units" it may contain. We reiterate the principle: "Animal tests are indispensable to determine what the symptoms of vitamin deficiency are, but are worthless to determine what will cure those symptoms when observed in the human species." The natural vitamin complexes contain the various closely related principles that are normally found together in foods. The more we study these complexes, the more complex they appear. That is why synthetic and chemically purified "Vitamins" are really not vitamins at all. They are only fragments of vitamins, just as the vegetable fiber in hay is a fragment of the carbohydrate complex. Goats, rabbits, and guinea pigs can thrive if fed this single fragment of the carbohydrate group (as it naturally occurs unpurified) BUT WE CANNOT. Hay is not a carbohydrate for the human, but we get some benefit from the associated minerals and vitamins it contains. | |
The unparalleled result produced by 'V-P' Vitamin complexes is due to the presence of these associated synergists which make up each complex. | |
| That is why 'V-P' Vitamin A Complex will so effectively relieve those frequent cases of hypertension, cystitis and sinusitis that develop because of Vitamin A deficiency. |
 | That is why 'V-P' Vitamin B Complex so effectively cooperates with liver extract in anemia and correct the heart arrhythmias found in almost a third of the adults over fifty, which are common specific reactions to Vitamin B deficiency. |
| That is why 'V-P' Vitamin C Complex so promptly brings down the temperature in infectious disease where the deficiency has paralyzed the phagocytic activity. |
| That is why 'V-P' Vitamin E Complex so promptly relieves the eczematous conditions that often result from a deficiency of the fat-soluble vegetable group. |
| That is why 'V-P' Vitamin F Complex so promptly relieves the fever blisters, cold sores, brittle nails, scanty hair growth and falling hair that is characteristic of Vitamin F deficiency. |
| That is why 'V-P" Vitamin G Complex so often removes the distressing symptoms in gastric ulcer, where the cause frequently is a slowing of regenerative processes because of a deficiency of specific growth factors. |
| In the following charts are a tabulated the known factors of each of the vitamins that have been discovered up to the present. | |
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NOTES ON VITAMIN A COMPLEX: Clinical Experience with V-P Vitamin A complex (the complete natural complex from various therapeutically active sources) has indicated that a combination of factors gives greater effectiveness in humans than vitamin A from any ONE source. Vitamin A is particularly hard to measure in units. The vitamin A in butter is two or three times as potent, unit for unit, as vitamin A from cod liver oil (8). Spinach vitamin A is ten times more potent, unit for unit, in the treatment of night blindness, than vitamin A from cod liver oil. The various and synergists are necessary for highest potency and best clinical results. Remarkable results have been reported from the use of V-P Vitamin A Complex in nephritis, hypertension, cystitis, acidosis, Hemeralopia, and Nyctalopia. | |
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NOTES ON VITAMIN B COMPLEX: Above we have most of the known factors of the complete natural vitamin B complex. Although many of them have no established effect on humans, it is the experience of the clinical users of "V-P" complete natural Vitamin B Complex, No. 712 that they are necessary in natural balance to act as synergists with more specific factors. A natural combination such as this is likely, according to clinical experience, to be from ten to fifty times more potent in humans, unit for unit, than is a chemically purified or synthetic complex, or a natural complex derived from ONE source. No ONE source contains ALL the factors of the complete vitamin B complex, and for highest potency a number of therapeutically active sources must be tapped. Although only 22 factors and synergists are listed, ten or more in addition are indicated and are combined in such organic combinations as to make, in some cases 50 to 100 isomers, while only one is therapeutically active. The futility of attempting to synthesize or tamper chemically with these extremely complicated food factors is thus obvious. In clinical substantiation of the above information, are the remarkably successful results and higher potencies exhibited by "V-P" Vitamin B Complex in the treatment of cardiac fibrillation, arrhythmias, dilatations, and myocardial weakness. Because of Its Interest in this Connection We Are Repeating the Following Material from Page 130 of Vitamin News Effect of "V-P" Vitamin B Complex on Yeast Growth The difference between complexes and the pure vitamins is very well indicated by their value in supplying nutrition to yeast. The yeast plant requires vitamins of the B and G groups to live. It takes up these vitamins from the media it lives in, and concentrates them to some extent thereby. We offer graphic charts to show the great difference in the life-giving properties of our "V-P" Complexes as compared to the chemically pure substitutes, unit for unit. | |
There is much the same variation in results in the use of these vitamin products in treating human vitamin deficiencies. That is why the unit offers no reasonable basis for comparing the nutritive value of different vitamin products, or their therapeutic values either. | |
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NOTES ON NATURAL C COMPLEX The most serious symptom of Vitamin C deficiency is susceptibility to infection. (4)This may precede actual scurvy. The anti-pneumonia factor (Vitamin J) has not yet been isolated or identified. Absorption and retention of the various ascorbic acid factors from food is greater than for synthetic scores. (2)This indicates that, milligram for milligram; natural ascorbic acid complexes are more potent than synthetic ascorbic acid. Synthetic vitamin C will not cure scurvy, because other factors of the complete complex are necessary. V-P natural vitamin C complex has always been more productive of clinical results than synthetic vitamin C, especially in promoting phagocytic activity. | |
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NOTES ON NATURAL D COMPLEX What we call vitamin D is not a single identity but a complete complex of known and unknown factors. (5)The toxicity of irradiated synthetic preparations, as Viosterol(7), is not present in natural forms containing the synergists. The vitamin D unit is not a reliable criterion of potency, there being species variation of as much as 100 t 1. (5)(8) | |
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| NOTES ON NATURAL E COMPLEX Drs. Gordon and Sevringhaus (13) suggest that vitamin E will be found to be a complex, requiring the combined action of all factors for proper action. They also review our inability to establish human requirements or determine potency of units. | |
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NOTES ON NATURAL F COMPLEX The chemistry of vitamin F compounds is not well developed except that we know they are unsaturated fatty acids. Their complexity can readily be imagined when we realize that Arachidonic acid can have 256 isomers, of which only one might be clinically effective. Clinical reports on the effectiveness of V-P Vitamin F Complex in cold sores, fever blisters, scaliness of skin, falling hair, and dandruff have been particularly encouraging. Its effect in lowering the serum calcium make it a logical protector again vitamin D toxicosis, thus explaining its presence as a synergist of vitamin D in cod-liver oil. (6) Vitamin F also is phenomenally rapid in its action of raising the blood iodine.(20) | |
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NOTES ON NATURAL G COMPLEX The factors composing the vitamin G complex are present in the vitamin B complex. Both B and G complexes are soluble in water, but the G factors are precipitated out in 85% alcohol. These factors embrace the entire thermostable component of the complete B complex, plus other unknown synergists. Clinically, V-P vitamin G complex is basically a combination of growth and regenerative factors, thus accounting for its efficacy in various gastrointestinal degenerative inflammations. The unknown parts of this complex from cereal seedlings and grass juice are probably the most therapeutically active in this respect. | |
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1. Eddy, W.H., What Are The Vitamins? Reinhold Publishing Company, New York, 1941 2. Howley, Estelle E., Doggs, R.G., and Stephens, D.J., The Effect of the Administration of Acid and Alkaline Salts upon the Ascorbic Acid Content of Guinea Pig Tissues, Journal of Nutritional, 14,1:-18, July 10, 1937 3. Stepp, Kahnau and Schroeder, The vitamins and Their Clinical Application, Ferdinand Enke, Stuttgart, Germany. Translation by vitamin Products Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1938 4. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, pages 1089, 1157, April, 1935 5. Reed, C.I., Stuck, H.C., and Steck, I.E., vitamin D, the University of Chicago Press, 1939 6. Burr, G.O. and burr, M.M., On the Nature and Role of the Fatty Acids Essential in Nutrition, Journal of Biological Chemistry, 86:587-621, 1930 7. Brehm, Potential Dangers of Viosterol during Pregnancy with Observations of Calcification of Placenta, Ohio Surgical and Medical Journal, 33:990, 1937 8. Bunker, J.W.M. and Harris, R.S., The Clinical Status of Vitamin D Milks, New England Journal of Medicine, 211, 35:1140-1147, December 20, 1934 9. Goettsch, Marianne and Ritzmann, Johana, The Preventive Effect of Wheat-Germ Oils and of alpha-Tocopherol in Nutritional Muscular Dystrophy of Young Rats, Journal of Nutrition, 17,4:371-381, April, 1939 10. Emerson, Oliver H., Emerson, Gladys A. and Evens, Herbert M., The vitamin E Activity of Alpha Tocoquinone, Journal of Biological Chemistry, 131,2:409-412, December, 1939 11. Evans, Herbert M., Emerson, Oliver H. and Emerson, Gladys A., The Isolation from Wheat Germ Oil of an Alcohol alpha-Tocopherol, Having the Properties of vitamin E, Journal of Biological Chemistry, 113:319, 1936 12. Emerson, et al, Science, 84:421, 1936 13. Gordon and Sevringhaus, vitamin Therapy in General Practice, pages 133, 139, Year Book Publishers, Chicago, 1940. 14. 1939 Yearbook of Agriculture, Food and Life, page 158, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 15. Harris, Leslie J., Vitamins, 4:331-382, Annual Review of biochemistry, 4:371, 1935. 16. Biochemical Journal, 24:233-238, 1938 17. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 97:183, 1932 18. Lea, C.H., Rancidity in edible Fats, pages 164, 169, Chemical Publishing Co., New York, 1939 19. Turpeinen, Osmo, Further Studies on the Unsaturated Fatty Acids Essential in Nutrition, 15,4:351-366, April, 1938 20. Hart, James P., unpublished correspondence, Los Angeles, California to Vitamin Products Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. | |
| *This article is published here in its entirety as found in the works of Dr. Royal Lee. The statements in this article have not be evaluated by the Food & Drug Administration. | |
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