So, after reading Part One, we now know that over 90% of ascorbic acid in this country is manufactured at a facility in Nutley, New Jersey, owned by Hoffman-LaRoche, one of the world’s biggest drug manufacturers.
So, after reading Part One, we now know that over 90% of ascorbic acid in this country is manufactured at a facility in Nutley, New Jersey, owned by Hoffman-LaRoche, one of the
world’s biggest drug manufacturers.
Here ascorbic acid is made from a process involving cornstarch and volatile acids. Most U.S. vitamin companies then buy the bulk ascorbic acid from this single facility. After that, marketing takes over. Each company makes its own labels, its own claims, and its own formulations, each one claiming to have the superior form of vitamin C, even though it all came from the same place, and it’s really not vitamin C at all.
For those of us with chronic Lyme
disease and rely on pure vitamins for the best performing protocols, it is critical to know this information and where to find pure vitamins (check info at the end of the post of each Part).
Now, back to Dr. O’Shea’s research:
FRACTIONATED = SYNTHETIC = CRYSTALLINE = FAKE
The word synthetic means two things:
* man-made
