Anti-Aging: Life Within Nutrition

By Dr. Robert Marshall

The magnificent human body has been designed to be nourished simply by eating food. However, today, finding food that is truly nourishing is becoming harder and harder. Due to commercial production farming, we have seen our food sources become so altered - from toxic poisons and chemicals to gene splicing - that we are now eating food that eventually devastates our own health.

In the early 1970s, a U.S. government study found the mineral levels of our food was as much as 50% lower than when tested in 1950. It took only twenty years to create such a nutrient wipeout. We wonder what has happened during the last thirty years, since the 1970 study.

Sadly, our food is now saturated with new classes of dangerous chemicals, chemicals so common we rarely lift a hand to protest anymore. In 1986, the FDA released its long-range Total Diet Study. In the study, the FDA obtained food from grocery stores throughout the United States. They measured the total number of pesticide/chemical residues in certain fruits and vegetables. Here are a few typical examples of the stunning levels of toxics they found in vegetables: broccoli-45; potatoes-96; tomatoes-50; celery-78. Toxics found in fruits included: apples-80; peaches-97; grapes-63; raisins-110. Since the FDA study ended in 1986, we can only guess what the toxic levels of our vegetables and fruits are today. If you consider the EPA's warning that exposure to pesticides is a top risk factor in cancer, the toxic residue numbers reflect one of the reasons cancer is increasing so rapidly today, and these toxic residue numbers are simply unacceptable.

To further pollute our food supply, splicing bacterial and viral genes into our God-given food seeds has created what many call "Franken-foods" - genetically tampered food - that can slowly poison and sicken consumers over time with a whole spectrum of uncharted symptoms. Current estimates are that up to 70 percent of the products on our grocery store shelves contain ingredients which have been genetically altered. Do you remember voting for bacterial genes to be spliced into the potatoes you eat? Or voting for fish genes in your tomatoes? These “Franken-foods” are a ticking time bomb that may prove to be an exploding health bomb - sooner or later.

What about eating "Organically Grown" food? Unfortunately, organically grown foods are often sprayed with chemicals after harvest, during transport, or in storage. We suggest finding a farmer's market and getting to know a farmer who does not use toxic chemicals and pesticides in their growing of fruits and vegetables.

If there are not enough critical nutrients, especially antioxidants, or your body is not able to replace them fast enough, your body cannot fight the incoming toxic barrage. Without antioxidant power, your body has no choice but to try to store the toxics in the fat of the body, in the brain, or other organs and body tissues. The body then creates more fat cells for the toxins to hide in. This is how the tired get more tired and how we gain more and more weight.

Considering the big picture - this ever-raging battle of nutrients vs. toxic chemicals and antioxidants vs. "free radicals" (cells that have become destructive to other cells) - we have to realize that lowered amounts of vital nutrients translates into exactly what we don't want: rapid aging, feeling tired, weight gain, greater risk of chronic disease, and deficiency symptoms (from poor memory to chronic fatigue to headaches).

Supplying the body with high levels of nutrients can mean feeling great. Low levels of nutrients can mean feeling half dead. Deficient nutrient levels also mean being at risk for the most dreaded chronic diseases such as arthritis, prostatitis, neuritis, tendonitis, diabetes, asthma, and even cancer.

To get protection from the efforts of toxic damage and stress, the smart person has to realize that regular food is not the answer. It is a real challenge today to get sufficient amounts of nutrients from food, including “organically grown” food. Many people have turned to nutritional supplements. The rapidly growing market of nutritional supplements is now a multibillion dollar industry. But are supplements giving you what you really need?

Vitamins originate mainly in plants. Vitamins are substances which are essential in small amounts for good health of the body, including growth, maintenance, repair, and reproduction. Many vitamins must be derived from food since they cannot be synthesized in sufficient quantities in the body. Each vitamin has a specific action and function and one vitamin cannot replace another.

Only since the 1920s have we begun extracting nutrients from food or synthesizing them in a laboratory, then putting them into pills to supplement our diets. But buyer beware! The body was designed to get nutrients from food, not a laboratory. In trying to isolate the active factors in food, USP (United States Pharmacopoeia) vitamins were created to mimic real vitamins. But synthetic USP vitamins are not food, even though they are often called “natural.” USP vitamins are chemical isolates synthesized in a laboratory. In whole food, vitamins are never isolated. They are always present as a part of a larger nutrient complex. Vitamins which occur naturally in food have a wide spectrum of actions in the body whereas isolated USP vitamins are analogues of these vitamins and appear to have only some of these actions.

Synthetic vitamins are not the same as "life within," once living, food source vitamins. Synthetic USP vitamins are not a part of plant tissues and have never been proven to safely and fully replace natural vitamins and their complex activities. Many studies suggest that natural vitamins in food complexes have better bio-availability than isolated USP synthetic vitamins.

Electron microscopy shows that isolated USP vitamins have a larger matrix with sharp jutting edges (crystal-like) compared to natural vitamins in food complexes, which are much smaller and appear spherical without angles.

Synthetic Vitamin C

Natural Vitamin C

Smaller particle size means better bio-availability in the body. An important task of your digestive process is to break down food particles small enough so they can be absorbed through your intestinal villi.

Some people will tell you that your body can't tell whether a vitamin came from an organically grown food or from the chemist's lab. To return to your best possible health by having sufficient levels of vitamins, consider the following:

• Synthetically USP vitamins are not chemically identical to natural vitamins.
• For best activity, vitamins must interact with cofactors and other nutrients.
• These associated factors are elegantly found in well-grown food, but missing in synthetic vitamins and are also missing in many hybrid or genetically engineered foods.
• All forms of vitamins do not enter the bloodstream equally well. Vitamin complexes from once living “life within” plants and herbs have been shown to be better absorbed and better retained than synthetics.
• Particle size is a key factor in nutrient absorption. Living source vitamins are easier to absorb because they (as the above photographs clearly show) are smaller in size.
• The physiochemical form of the nutrient is a major factor in bio-availability. Living source nutrients are in a physiochemical form which the body recognizes and can more easily absorb.

Compared to synthetic vitamins, living source nutrients have a more bio-compatible size and shape and therefore, better bio-availability. This does not mean that USP vitamins have no value, they clearly do, but living source “life within” complexes have been proven to outperform these synthetic counterparts. USP vitamins are only analogues of living source nutrients, not exact duplicates. Some analogues have been shown to have only partial vitamin action, and some have no vitamin action at all!

Some synthetic USP vitamins have been shown to act as vitamin antagonists, and some can even produce deficiency symptoms of the specific vitamin they seek to artificially duplicate.

To make the point, let us look at vitamin B.

Vitamin B is essential for life. Synthetic vitamin B is a coal tar derivative and is usually synthesized as thiamin hydrochloride (HCL) or thiamin mononitrate. However, neither of these substances is found in food. One study showed that living source “life within” vitamin B1 was absorbed 1.38 times better into the blood and retained 1.27 times longer than synthetic vitamin B1. Studies show that living source vitamin B3, in food complexes is 3.94 times better absorbed in the blood and 1.7 times better retained than USP vitamin B3. Vitamin B12 is made synthetically using cyanide! (USP cyanocobalamn). Living source vitamin B12, when ingested into the body, is non-toxic, while some forms of synthetic vitamin B12 when ingested have been shown to be antagonistic to vitamin B12 activity in the body. One study showed that living source B12 was absorbed 2.56 times better into the blood and was retained 1.59 times better than isolated USP vitamin B12.

We could elaborate on many more examples of the superiority of “life within” living source vitamins over their synthetic counterparts, but I think you get the idea, don't you? Humans are designed to eat food from living sources to receive their vitamins. Genesis 1:29 says God created “seed-bearing plants and trees that have fruit” for us to eat. You wouldn't eat synthetic apples and bananas, why take synthetic vitamins? And the same is true for minerals!

Plants are designed to thrive on soil-based rock mineral salts. For humans, the best minerals come from a living source, not rocks. Mineral salts require much more stomach acid for humans to break them down. Most of the mineral supplements on the market today contain minerals as mineral salts. These are either ground rock, such as calcium carbonate, found in limestone, calcium citrate, derived from limestone that has been processed with lactic or citric acid (not from citrus fruits), or they are chemically produced in accordance with the USP. Research shows that inorganic calcium carbonate can counteract the absorption of calcium. Other research shows that rock source calcium lactate or calcium gluconate can create high levels of calcium in the blood but are poorly utilized by the body's tissues; therefore, even with high blood levels of calcium, symptoms of low tissue calcium often continue (such as joint pain, poor flexibility, high blood pressure, depression, etc.) Rock source minerals are natural food for plants, but not natural food for humans. For example, living source calcium (such as the proper species of coral calcium) is 8.79 times better absorbed into the blood than mineral salts.

In some cases, isolated mineral salts can act as toxic elements, over taxing the body's systems. Then the body must work harder to throw off inorganic minerals. To build the body, the best minerals are in the biochemical, life-producing, “life within” form as found in living source nutrients.

German research has shown that all living food, including natural food complexes, have sophisticated cellular structures which incorporate spin-ahead and spin-reverse electrons that have aligned to produce pure light.

Living source nutrients produce this strong energy field. Synthetic vitamins do not!

One tablet of one of the largest-selling "Natural" Multivitamins (USP) in the world

One gelatin capsule of a top-selling "Chelated" Multivitamin in a Whole Food Concentrate

One 100% pure vegetable capsule multivitamin from a living source - note the significant Body of Light

When you consume these “Body of Light”, 100% living source nutrients, they deliver not only life-essential nutrients, but also a spectrum of pure light energy which has been shown to facilitate DNA repair of the cell. The cell's life can be greatly extended when its DNA is continually repaired and maintained. For the body, ongoing DNA repair, from living source nutrients, can mean a return to great health and prolonged life!

This scenario is in sharp contrast to using synthetic nutrients, which can boost the metabolism of the cell in the short run (which may help you feel better temporarily), but in the long run, allow the DNA to degrade. Unfortunately, DNA repair is not possible with synthetic source nutrients. This is what we refer to as the "Feels good, but isn't” concept. It reminds us of an ancient scripture: "There is a way that seems wise to a man, that leads to destruction."