Environment is a Powerful Factor in Health

An egg that sits at room temperature for a few weeks spoils and rots. That same egg incubated at 99.5 degrees Fahrenheit and rotated several times a day will hatch a chick. I once wrote a book with a physician titled Little Things Mean a Lot. Subtle differences in nutrient intake can have profound influences upon health. The Shute brothers were the first researchers to claim heart benefits for vitamin E. The only form of vitamin E available when they began their research was the natural form. They observed that when synthetic vitamin E manufactured from a turpentine derivative became available it did not appear to provide the same benefits. Melvyn Werbach wrote an article a number of years ago in which he pointed out that synthetic beta-carotene which did not produce benefit is research studies was different in structure from the natural beta-carotene found in carrots. NeoLife has always sought to derive supplements from forms that match what one finds in foods. This involves not only the proper structure of the molecules, but also natural complexes where vitamins and minerals are accompanied by their nutritional co-workers. Dr. Alan Nittler many hears ago used the analogy of a hand. Isolated nutrients are like a single finger while natural complexes are like a whole hand. It is impossible to button a shirt with one finger, but easy with five fingers. Nutrients work best in natural complexes in the forms they occur naturally in foods people have been eating for centuries.