There is a vast difference between synthetic and natural vitamins and minerals. In natural food, many factors are present. Vitamins, minerals, amino acids and enzymes help the body utilize the nutrients. When you eat natural foods or take supplements derived from them, you are getting all the factors, known and unknown. Such natural products yield far better results than synthetics.

Most chemists maintain, molecule by molecule, synthetic vitamins are identical to natural vitamins. The isolated factor of each may be identical, although newer information challenges this belief. The man-made combinations of a few synthetic, are merely a combination of the separate factors, not the whole complex found in natural products. These may be called the naturally associated synergistic factors. The whole family of B, C or E VITAMINS IS KNOWN AS "COMPLEX". Research shows that separate factors can cause improvement of certain conditions. The whole complex, because of the whole spectrum of nutrients it contains, can do even better. It is now believed that the "unknown" found in the natural vitamin, not found in the synthetic form, acts as a catalyst, which makes the vitamin more effective.

A sluggish organ, cell or gland may be temporarily stimulated into action by large amounts of a synthetic factor; but if this is continued too long, it becomes similar to whipping a tired horse. The prolonged action of the synthetics imitates the action of drugs; they only over-stimulate and do not feed. The primary aim of Enzyme Nutrition Therapy is the restoration of the basic function of the body-or feeding and fortifying the system. Nutrition plays a dramatic part.

All illness, pain and suffering are the result of our dietary mistakes. Illness is the result of toxemia inside one's body.

Many vitamins are used by the body as part of one of the body's many enzymes. In studying about metabolic enzymes we found them to be complicated chemicals which act as a specialized tool inside the cell. They may have only one job to do. It may be to break up a substance-as a split fat, carbohydrate, or protein, or to join molecules of a certain kind together. Every action in the body is an enzymatic action.

The joining of two molecules together may be only one step in a long process in which some very complicated chemical is being built. The metabolic enzyme does the same job over and over again for different molecules, plus the various complicated, life protecting jobs they are called upon to perform.

A metabolic enzyme is a large protein molecule, coupled to one or two smaller molecules called co-enzymes. Many vitamins are these co-enzymes. Since the enzyme cannot complete it's work without the co-enzyme, the molecule that is being built by the enzyme cannot be finished unless that co-enzyme is present in the body. When it is absent, the body's cell machinery begins to fail, and one of the vitamin deficiency diseases can appear.

Not all vitamins are co-enzymes and not all co-enzymes are vitamins. A vitamin does not have to be the exact co-enzyme needed for the enzyme to use it. In fact, the chemical that has been identified in the lab as thew vitamin that is needed often turns out to be a close relative of the needed co-enzyme. The body simply takes the vitamins, converts it to the needed co-enzyme and proceeds to go about its business. The body machinery is pretty adaptable and often there are substitutes that will work equally well as some certain vitamins. In the case of Vitamin A, any of the chemicals(retinol, retinal, and retinoic acid) can be converted by the body cells to the needed chemicals to get Vitamin A activity.

To sustain good health, your cells must have the chemicals they need to perform the jobs of tissue repair and growth in your body. If any single chemical cannot be made available, your body must bear the brunt.

Vitamins play only a small part in our daily nutrition and it is a wise nutritionist that knows vitamins have little function without minerals. Lacking vitamins, the system can make use of the minerals, but lacking minerals the vitamin lose their ability to do their work. Minerals liberate the vitamins to do their work. For instance, a lack of the mineral iron has a relationship to Vitamin C. The vitamin helps in the absorption of iron through the intestine walls. Yet the lack of iron raises your needs for Vitamin C. The less iron in your diet, the more Vitamin C you may need. Vitamins need minerals. Yet neither can do their work without enzymes. It may be wise to place our first importance in nutrition on enzymes.

Nature has made available these enzymes that have a magic power of perpetual healing. Enzymes are found in every gland, cell, tissue, and organ-and in the process of metabolism. They influence every physical and mental function. To enjoy the feeling of youth and health, we need the "life force" that is sent out by this seemingly magic substance we call enzymes. It protects us from aging. It gives us healing properties that enable us to recover from the stress and strain of everyday living. Without enzymes, face it, we'd be dead.

Enzymes are complex, protein-like substance found in all living cells that enable us to digest food and absorb the life-giving nutrients through the process of assimilation. Enzymes are intimately involved in the action and activity of every cell in the human body and in every function of life. Enzymes are the substances that turn a slice of apple brown when it is exposed to air. They give cheese its flavor. They convert food to energy, build and rebuild cells and tissues, regenerate and repair the body from the inside out. The enzymes act to send nourishing ingredients to the bloodstream to feed the organs, glands, cells, and tissues as well as the brain. So, enzymes can be called a youth substance that extracts nutrients from foods in the digestive tract to use for building and rebuilding our bodies from head to toe.

Without the enzymes, or even with a shortage, the food we eat cannot be digested, or, at best, can only be partially digested. This would mean if we have weak enzymes, or a shortage of them, our body could be receiving food, but it may not be assimilating or digesting that food. Thus it is robbed of the vitamins and minerals needed for the body to remain healthy.

*Enzymes cause the food we eat to build healthy muscle, nerves, bones and glands. *Enzymes help store nutrients in our liver and muscles for future use. *Enzymes are involved in the formation of wastes to be eliminated in perspiration and urine. *Enzymes are used to eliminate unnecessary carbon dioxide from the respiratory system. *Enzymes help fix iron in the red blood cells and also bring about coagulation of the blood. *Enzymes attack waste material in the bloodstream and tissues and transform them into substances that can be eliminated from the system. *Enzymes change food substance into nutrients that can then be taken up by the body processes and used to build greater health from head to toe.

Every cell in your body has to have nutrients to maintain and do the work required to keep it from deteriorating. They are as follows:

Vitamins	Minerals	Carbohydrates
A(retinol)*	Calcium*	Glucose
D(cholecalciferol)	Phosphorous	Fat or Lipid
K(potassium)	Sodium#	Potassium
Thiamin B1	Sulfur	Linoleic Acid
Riboflavin B2	Chlorine	Protein
E( tocopherol)	Magnesium#	Amino Acids
Niacin B3	Iron*	Leucine
Biotin	Selenium	Isoleucine
Folacin#	Zinc#	Lysine
B6*	Manganese	Methionine
B12*	Copper	Phenylalanine
Pantothenic Acid B5	Cobalt	Threonine
C	Molybdenum	Tryptophan
	Iodine+	Valine
	Chromium	Histidine
	Vanadium	Nonessential
	Tin	Nitrogen
	Nickel
	Silicon