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Heidi Heil STOPS Thymectomy's avatar

I feel Agent131711’s substack may benefit from more research. This does not equal that.

He calls the active form a vitamin A, found in eating liver products, toxic and the plant form of vitamin A in many vegetables, the only safe form.

Is this true?

A significant number of people are unable to break down beta-carotene into its active form. It is possible I'm one of these people because I suffered from severe candida infection until I took the active form of vitamin A which cured me.

I'd like to do more research into the manufacture of these vitamins however some of the processes he discusses may be natural processes of fermentation we use in our own bodies.

Again I'm not saying he's wrong. There may be GMO manufacturing processes which I would not consider safe. The actual vitamins themselves, from natural sources, are not toxic unless they're used in the most purest form in massive amounts.

I actually feel plant products might be more dangerous in their active form because they have to be processed whereas animal form of supplements, I believe is the more natural form.

Indole-3-acetic acid is considered very toxic in its pure form and yet it's one of the most well-known natural plant hormones which helps plants to grow. A person could call it a toxic chemical or a natural hormone found in plants.

Lumping all of the vitamins into one category of "bad, dangerous, toxins"... I'm not sure if that is true.

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Kay's avatar

Thank you 🙏

For many years I’ve pondered on the question of why it is that some people can see the ruse but most do not or do not want to. (Were we born more curious?) They prefer the ‘easy’ life which ironically makes their health worse and this has to make life harder in some ways at least. I doubt there is any possibility of avoidance of hardship - think one is making life easier in one area but watch out for an unexpected challenge in another. This maps onto the atrocious pharma cycle you write about. Take a drug to fix a problem but spawn more problems - and become more dependent on others to survive.

People looking outside of their own inner resources / wisdom for answers become dependent on others. We live in the midst of a personal responsibility crisis - but gosh that’s so good for business !!

Like you, I’ve avoided drugs as much as possible, did go down the supplements track but have started to question that too. Now focus is on cultivating a herb garden and leaning as much as I can about nature’s own remedies.

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