Do Vitamins Exist?

Source: https://unbekoming.substack.com/p/do-vitamins-exist

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The Chemist’s Admission

Dr. Tom Cowan wanted to answer a simple question: How do we know vitamins exist in living beings?

In a January 2026 webinar, Cowan described going to the original papers on vitamin isolation. The methodology follows a consistent pattern: researchers take a sample (animal fat, cod liver oil, blood), add chemicals to it, wash it repeatedly with solvents like acetone, heat it, process it further, and eventually produce a “relatively pure chemical.” They then analyze this end product and declare they have isolated the vitamin.

Cowan asked a question that should be obvious: How do you know that adding acids, bases, and washing with acetone six times didn’t create something that wasn’t in the original sample?

He posed this question to multiple analytical chemists. Every one of them gave the same answer: I have no idea.

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The position that the article develops in great detail is NOT that synthetic vitamins don’t work. Some clearly do, for some people, some of the time. The position is that we cannot conclude from their working that vitamins exist in nature as the discrete chemical entities we’ve been taught they are.

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This is not a claim that chemistry is useless or that scientists are frauds. It’s an observation about the limits of a methodology. When every detection method involves processing that may create what it detects, the results cannot be taken as proof of prior existence.

The practical implication is not to abandon everything that works. If high-dose ascorbic acid reverses a toxic state, use it. If someone recovers from illness with intravenous vitamin C, the recovery is real regardless of what we call the compound or whether it exists in oranges.

The implication is to stop assuming we understand more than we do.

You can read the full essay here > https://unbekoming.substack.com/p/do-vitamins-exist

4 hours ago, Red Phoenix said:

Do Vitamins Exist?

Source: https://unbekoming.substack.com/p/do-vitamins-exist

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The Chemist’s Admission

Dr. Tom Cowan wanted to answer a simple question: How do we know vitamins exist in living beings?

In a January 2026 webinar, Cowan described going to the original papers on vitamin isolation. The methodology follows a consistent pattern: researchers take a sample (animal fat, cod liver oil, blood), add chemicals to it, wash it repeatedly with solvents like acetone, heat it, process it further, and eventually produce a “relatively pure chemical.” They then analyze this end product and declare they have isolated the vitamin.

Cowan asked a question that should be obvious: How do you know that adding acids, bases, and washing with acetone six times didn’t create something that wasn’t in the original sample?

He posed this question to multiple analytical chemists. Every one of them gave the same answer: I have no idea.

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The position that the article develops in great detail is NOT that synthetic vitamins don’t work. Some clearly do, for some people, some of the time. The position is that we cannot conclude from their working that vitamins exist in nature as the discrete chemical entities we’ve been taught they are.

...

This is not a claim that chemistry is useless or that scientists are frauds. It’s an observation about the limits of a methodology. When every detection method involves processing that may create what it detects, the results cannot be taken as proof of prior existence.

The practical implication is not to abandon everything that works. If high-dose ascorbic acid reverses a toxic state, use it. If someone recovers from illness with intravenous vitamin C, the recovery is real regardless of what we call the compound or whether it exists in oranges.

The implication is to stop assuming we understand more than we do.

You can read the full essay here > https://unbekoming.substack.com/p/do-vitamins-exist

Great, and important topic, at the start of the new year. And what a topic it is. It cuts right into 'how do we know?'.

Unbekoming puts it succinctly. Must put the question of vitamins alongside viruses, and DNA. Both are regularly discussed here on AN. Alongside! Yes! Because there is so much 'assumed' knowledge on these individual topics.

I can't improve on the essay on the Lies are Unbekoming site. But the role of bio-electricity is worth more than a passing thought. It brings into the frame; 'why do we breathe?' IMO, there are 3 main reasons. To bring oxygen, and other gasses, into the lungs. and through inspiration send the wanted elements into the blood. Expiration is the other side of the process, where carbon dioxide, and other stuff - much of what is not wanted - is exhaled; along with the unused inhaled gasses. The third, is for the body to replenish, or add, bio-electricity to the blood, and therefore into the body organs and tissues.

Is this is where vitamins come into play? Aiding distribution of bio-electricity throughout the body. Why is this important? IMO, bio-electricity, is crucial in blood flow to the body extremes. Also the interaction between cells themselves. Another topic that's for sure.

Dr Tom Cowan('s) - the mentioned doctor/author/podcaster referenced in the OP link - whole podcast is well worth a listen. The vitamin part starts at 32-20.

https://odysee.com/@Freedom_Now!:f/What-questions-are-you-thinking-about-as-we-start-the-new-year--Webinar-from-January-7th,-2026:f

On 1/12/2026 at 7:30 AM, Red Phoenix said:

The practical implication is not to abandon everything that works. If high-dose ascorbic acid reverses a toxic state, use it. If someone recovers from illness with intravenous vitamin C, the recovery is real regardless of what we call the compound or whether it exists in oranges.

The implication is to stop assuming we understand more than we do.

everything i post regarding "health practices" comes from a very reliable "study group" . Me !

over the last 3 years i have turned a very difficult prostate situation ( bph) where i had urgency symptoms and lack of sleep..... into now an almost normal situation. Protocol : slight changed of diet and going 2 meals a day , plus some supplements, plus some Chinese herbs (3) that i researched myself and go to local shop to buy, and make tea a few times a week.

Muscle weakness : more protein, less carbs, no sugar (but a little honey) , and : magnesium (2 types), boron, vit d and k2, vit c , selenium ..and sometimes others , Also bovine collagen ....

Constipation : magnesium first thing, then blackstrap molasses tea with breakfast along with the vitamins. Finally some prunes . VOILA ! . All these years without real eliminating the poisons daily.

I also take iodine (helps detox) and use dmso .... and something as simple as taking a little pink sea salt with water almost instantly stops the soreness and tightness when fatigued from exercise .

Many more personal anecdotes i have.... but i probably should stop for now ,,,,,, lol

https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/004012.htm#:~:text=Some%20changes%20that%20occur%20with%20aging%20include:,Changes%20in%20breasts%20*%20Changes

"Nature gave us a brain..... using it to figure things out is often what is lacking"