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Coming CLEAN

It was the 1920s when the first supplements were made, back when extracting nutrients was a complicated process. Making cod liver oil, for example, required floating actual cod livers in water until the oil rose to the surface and could be skimmed off and bottled.

Over time, technology has improved, and scientists have developed ways to create synthetic vitamins and minerals with molecular structures identical to those found naturally. Most supplements still contain these, but the new companies are doing things a little bit differently these days.

There’s now an increasing number of what are called ‘food state’ vitamins. These were

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