MICRONUTRIENTS

Multi-Nutrient (Vitamin/Mineral System)

Due to the destruction of most nutrients in our foods from heat processing and cooking, UPC Nutrition has formulated the proper blend of vitamins and minerals essential for fighting stress, toxins, disease and free radical damage caused by everyday life. This special blend has been designed for digestion and assimilation at the cellular level. Multi-Nutrient is a comprehensive array of fat and water-soluble micronutrients, defined photochemicals and biochemicals. The Multi-Nutrient System was designed to include all the anti-oxidant protection you need throughout the day. This formula has been created to provide you with the Optimum Daily Allowance (ODA) of vitamins and minerals for those individuals with a more active lifestyle. This product should never be used to replace the nutrients from whole foods; however, it may be used as an additional means to supplement your nutrition.
This product is based on the 55/15/30, 2000 calorie a day diet plan. It is suggested to take three capsules daily. You may adjust intake according to your individual diet.

How to Compare Vitamins:

All live natural foods contain their own enzymes. Natural, whole food complex nutritional supplements are made from whole-some natural food items.

There are three basic supplement types available on the market today:

1. NATURAL - Means vitamins as found in natural foods, un-tampered with in any way that might change their molecular, biological or biochemical combinations, or their action. This usually means that only the fiber and moisture are removed.
2. CRYSTALLINE - Means it had a natural food as its original source but was treated with various high-powered chemicals, solvents, heat and distillations to reduce it down to one specific, pure crystalline vitamin or amino acid, and hence is no longer natural. It no longer has its synergistic components, meaning no enzymes, co-enzymes, minerals, mineral activators and co-vitamin helpers. It has been reduced to a pure crystalline powder with one definite simple chemical structure. In this form it is but one simple phase of the complete VITAMIN COMPLEX.
3. SYNTHETIC - Means that in the laboratory the scientist has reconstructed the exact structure of the Crystalline molecule by putting together or chemically combining the same molecules from other sources. Therefore, chemically there is no difference between the two. The Crystalline may have a slight advantage in that it is difficult to reduce any natural product to an absolute pure state and any impurities would be "synergists", hence, giving a little added value to the Crystalline over the Synthetic. On the label for either Synthetic or Crystalline, only the chemical name of the single vitamin is usually given. Legally, it is not necessary to give the source from which the synthetic chemical is derived.

When man realized his foods had been devitalized through modern processing methods, he decided to replace the lost vitamins. But in his effort to extricate himself from the refined food trap, scientific confusion led him to try to replace the nutrients with "chemical man-made vitamins".
So, here again, he refined down vitamin products into pure crystalline vitamins, robbing them of important food values just as he had refined natural grains and natural sweets into their pure crystalline carbon-white flour and white sugar.

Then to save money, he duplicated these crystalline vitamins synthetically, mostly from coal tar products. Thus, natural vitamins as natural foods were robbed of nature's life and valuable elusive nutrients. Science proves that while man can isolate from our foods known factors comprising about 99 percent of total weight, we cannot maintain normal nutrition or "life" by consuming the factors thus isolated. Nature still holds the nutrients that sustains "life".

"High Potency" is a much-abused term. Test animals on a high potency enriched diet do not live as long as those on the same low vitamin diet "without" the enrichment.

The human biochemistry requires bio-available (available to the cells) complexes, not huge amounts of crystalline pure or synthetic fractions of vitamin complexes. The apparent benefits derived from laboratory-made vitamins are short lived and after a time the benefit is reversed.

Natural food complex supplements are typically of a low dose. It is sometimes difficult to envision that such small amounts of a natural substance could be so efficacious. Nature does not supply micronutrients in large amounts in any natural food.
Literature is abundant with studies demonstrating that large or mega-doses can and do create serious problems to human biochemistry. From all the information, it clearly shows the difference between the Synthetic and the Natural. The synthetic does not work in the curative or physiological sense. The natural complex does work, but more importantly, Natural Complexes do their work in phenomenally small doses
A common, highly deceptive practice, is the manufacturing of pseudo nutrients, labeling crystalline, pure and synthetic vitamin fractions as "Complexes", and passing off on a unknowing public, phony synthetics or fractions of vitamin complexes and promising that the body does not know the difference.

The meaning of complexes simply is the sum or combination of various things. A more precise definition is "consisting of various connected or interwoven parts or composites". The latter definition suggests an internal interrelationship, a reciprocal relation that would more closely fit the thought of a vitamin or a micronutrient complex. Nevertheless, many "nutritional" manufacturers define a complex as a compound or mixture containing two or more items, "whatever they may be".

As a result, the consumer buys a Vitamin C product that says on the label: "Vitamin C from Natural Sources (usually synthesized from corn sugar) with bioflavonoinds or rutin". Legally this can be called a "C Complex", natural and organic, but is really no more than a combination of two or more dead refined chemicals, not a required-for-life BIOCHEMICAL.

Why don't doctors know about vitamins or nutrition in general? One big answer was revealed in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) August 8, 1980. It admitted: "The area of nutrition has been neglected by the medical profession. Most medical schools devote less than three hours of total instruction to nutritional deficiencies and therapy. In short, physicians in the United States are not required to have any understanding of nutrition to be licensed to practice medicine".

We do not believe in or suggest megavitamin or excess doses of "so called" nutrients. In turn, a total general schedule of nutritional supplements cannot be incorporated into a "one a day" type pill that would encompass all your daily needs. Because of this fact, several different products must be used to cover the range of total nutritional supplementation. They cannot be concentrated into 3-4 tablets and retain biological activity. This is another reason most prescribed supplements today do not have a corrective effect.

It is a misconception and impossible to attempt to equate the doses for a synthetic supplement to the dose of a natural food concentrate, as they are entirely different substances with different effects. The effects of naturals and synthetics are wholly different. The dosages have no relationship on a comparative basis.

From this information above, the following facts must be concluded:

1. There is a difference between natural and synthetic vitamins. Natural vitamins must not be segregated, separated or isolated. The most that can be done to increase the potency without disturbing the Natural balance is to evaporate the moisture and remove the fiber so as to conserve space and temporarily render the vitamin inactive.
2. Fractions of vitamin complexes are "Not Vitamins at All".
3. The best to be expected of synthetic vitamin fractions or even natural vitamin fractions is a drug effect.
4. Natural, low potency vitamin complexes do not cause any disease or adverse reaction in the body. Total nutritional supplementation only provides the body with essential elements needed for general biochemistry and physiology, to help the body stay healthy and repair tissue damage.
5. Natural food vitamins are never highly concentrated. Nature is interested in balance, not potency. This means that to get higher than normal potency, Natural vitamins must be consumed in great quantity. Synthetic and Crystalline vitamins lend themselves to high potency concentrations in a few small pills.
6. Natural vitamins build nutritionally, while synthetics build medically.
7. Naturals are more expensive because they are perishable, and every precaution must be taken to preserve their life and integrity. Synthetics are "dead", inertly cheaper and present much fewer handling problems. As with any inert material, greater mass production creates cheaper bargain prices.

This information is why UPC Nutrition uses only all natural raw materials from plants grown in a laboratory setting. Remember, UPC's Mutlti-Nutrient Vitamin/Mineral System has been formulated to provide you with the highest quality of natural sources of water and oil based vitamins and a complete range of necessary minerals for optimum health.

The following is a complete table of vitamins and minerals with information about each micronutrient, including the food source, the optimum daily allowance, the function, any deficiency problems and any toxicity from overdose:

1.) Fat-soluble - A, D, E, K, and beta carotene. These require protein carriers in the blood and are not readily excreted. They are stored in the liver and fatty tissue, and vitamins such as D and preformed A have the potential for toxicity.

*ODA- Optimal Daily Allowance

2.) Water-soluble - B1 (thiamin), B2(riboflavin), Niacin, B6(pyridoxine), Folacin (folic acid), B12(cobalamin), Biotin, Pantothenic acid, C(l-ascorbic acid). These vitamins are more easily lost during storage and cooking. They travel unattached in the blood and lymph, are excreted in the urine, and are less likely to cause toxicity symptoms, with the exception of B6. A daily source of these vitamins are recommended due to their limited amounts that are stored.

*ODA - Optimal Daily Allowance

Overview of Vitamins:

1.) We must obtain vitamins to sustain life.

2.) Vitamins are not a substitute for food.

3.) Vitamins have no caloric or energy value.

4.) Vitamins are components of our enzyme system that energize and regulate our metabolism.

5.) Most vitamins have been depleted in our foods due to processing.