The main difference between a supplement with high dosages of synthetically made nutrients and raw whole food concentrates is the life force they contain. Whole food concentrates are essentially raw food in a tablet, and are energetically alive. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, nourishing foods are known to have “Gu Qi”, which means “energy of living foods.” 
Synthetic chemicals lack life and actually drain the body’s reserves. Claiming that the ascorbic acid made in a lab has the same molecular chemistry as that found in food is like saying a living being has the same cellular makeup as a fresh corpse. Vitamin complexes are so biochemically complicated that only a living cell can create Canadian pharmacy viagra them. Just as a computer programmer will never recreate a human brain, chemists will never reproduce a true vitamin in a laboratory.
Dr. Royal Lee explained that vitamins are biological mechanisms. “Like a watch, they consist of a multitude of parts — some we may never identify — that act together to deliver to the body a transcendent ‘vitamin effect.’ The chemist (and modern synthetic vitamin supplement maker) who isolates a few parts of a vitamin complex and expects these parts to deliver the effect of the entire mechanism might as well slap a few pieces of brass on his or her wrist and ask them to tell time.”
Reductionist chemists and biochemists believe that nutritional complexes can be reduced to, or at least approximated by, their “most important” parts. To these critics, we ask, “Which part of a watch keeps time?” No single part, of course. The various pieces work together to perform a function that transcends that of any of the individual parts. Moreover, only the complete set of parts will perform the function. Remove just one of these parts, and the mechanism fails.
The whole food concentrates created by Dr. Lee contain every known nutrient. As scientists discover new nutrients each year, they find them to already be in Dr. Lee’s formulas. It is impossible for a synthetic based supplement to provide us the nutrients that have not yet been discovered. While science has a long way to catch up to nature, we don’t have to wait to feed our bodies the foods we were designed to eat.
Food for Thought: Most retail supplements contain high doses of synthetic vitamins. If you see Vitamin C is listed as ascorbic acid, it is most likely synthetic based. If you see Vitamin E listed as alpha-tocopherols (and not from pea vine juice or wheat germ oil), it is most likely synthetic based. If you see Vitamin A listed as beta-carotene, it is most likely synthetic based. If you see multiple vitamins listed, claiming to provide over a hundred percent of Daily Value, it is most likely derived from synthetic materials as well. Furthermore, the nutrients within a product are most likely not derived from food sources if the supplement label does not list multiple food sources. Supplements that contain artificial colorings are almost always synthetic based and should be avoided.