When we say natural or whole food supplements, we're speaking of products that contain the total complex family of micro-nutrients (known and unknown) just as they are found in nature. These micro-nutrients are indispensable for proper vitamin absorption and maximum utilization. That's the only way you can have optimum nutrition. Synthetic vitamins lack this wonderfully marvelous supporting family.
The B vitamins are another good example. In 1925, there was only one known B vitamin. By 1975, ten other B family members had been discovered, bringing the total number of B factors to eleven. There's no telling how many more will be discovered by the year 2025.
If you had taken an isolated synthetic B-1 compound in 1925, you would have missed all the rest of the B family factors, which all work together to counteract stress and product energy. But if you had used a whole food supplement like the 7 Essentials, you would have gotten all the known and unknown B vitamin factors, and that includes everything that won't be discovered until the year 2025!
We've taken the guess work out...everything's in 7 Essentials.