The Vital Questions - Why Vitamins?

vi·ta·min

noun |

plural noun: vitamins

  1. any of a group of organic compounds which are essential for normal growth and nutrition and are required in small quantities in the diet because they cannot be synthesized by the body.

    "most people can get all the vitamins they need from a healthy diet"

That’s what the oxford Dictionary tells us. However, it’s since been established that many vitamins can be synthethizewd Vitamins are substances that our bodies need to develop and function normally. They include vitamins A, C, D, E, and K, choline, and the B vitamins (thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, pantothenic acid, biotin, vitamin B6, vitamin B12, and folate/folic acid).

The thing about carbon based life is, it’s not stable - and when we alter it enough to MAKE it stable so it can sit conveniently on our pantry shelves… I mean you’ve got to figure that has an impact on the benefits we received from this once-living source, plant, animal, fungi or whatever. ALL food was ONCE a cool little carbon-molecule-making-machine that WASN’T stable, in fact it was constantly growing and reacting with it’s special little set of blue prints and certain little collection of peptides and enzymes. And it’s the very elements of life - the ch

Meat is easy enough to understand, I mean it’s a live thing with live parts that when we consume we internally deconstruct and then use the litteral amino acid building blocks in order to reconstruct our own peptides and grow our muscles. And we know … once you cut that living piece of meat off its

In fact the very REASON we refrigerate food to maintain it’s edible quality is because of the reactive nature of the bio-chemical nature of organic living things, and that fact that dropping tempureture has the effect of slowing down and/or stopping the chemical activity of degradation that ensues in all organic matter that’s cut off from it’s original living source.

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