 | Summaries and Customer Reviews are supplied by Amazon.com | What if just about everything you thought you knew about supplements and health turned out to be... absolutely wrong?
Nutrition expert Dr. Brian Clement, director of the world-famous Hippocrates Health Institute, explores the various myths that have made supplements a "buyer beware" industry.
Supplements Exposed strips away layers of deception to reveal the truth about what millions of supplement users each year have taken for granted. For the first time, you will learn how:
* Nearly all supplements sold in the United States and the world are synthetics created in pharmaceutical industry labs. As a result, they can be toxic to your health.
* There are distinct differences between natural (plant-derived) supplements and synthetic (chemically-derived) supplements and how they each impact your health.
* Nearly all medical science studies of nutrients and human health have used synthetics rather than natural nutrients, which throws the accuracy of all negative laboratory results into serious doubt.
This provocative book guides you through the minefield of choices you face every time you buy vitamins and minerals. It shows you how to decipher product labels that are otherwise deceptive, how to choose naturally occurring (plant-derived) supplements, why recommended daily allowances spread confusion, and much more. |
Average Customer Rating:   only vitamins they support though is food based types most of it is quite good but do not support most vitamins other then less concentrated food based vitamins.
I believe there are quite a few higher rated vitamins that will help treat illness.
the ones they recommend I believe do more to keep someone healthy but not high enough potency to treat illness. Everything you thought you knew about supplements was wrong! In this provocative, well researched book, Dr. Brian Clement challenges everything we think we know about supplements. The first myth he exposes is that we can get our nutrition without supplements, from food alone. He cites a US Senate report dating 1936 which proved that our soil is depleted in nutrients, and explains that even organic soil is insufficient! He proceeds to give us the history of vitamin manufacturing, and the more you read, the more you realize it sounds little better than the drug companies!
Another misconception is that synthetics vitamins are equal to natural nutrients, or even effective or absorbed at all. (In fact, many indigested vitamins are found in Port Potties!) As director of the Hippocrates Institute, he has examined the blood of over 11,000 guests who used synthetic supplements and has shown this to be true. But here is where it gets tricky: Synthetic vitamins are allowed to label their product as being from whole foods or from a food source by legal loopholes--when in fact they simply have a base of algae, yeast or other bacterium or food medium that was spiked with synthetic vitamins! Sorry all you MLMers--even multi-level supplements usually come from the same sources, the same synthetic vitamin manufacturers. Our best option is to purchase "products that state on their label that their vitamin or mineral or nutrient potencies came from "Naturally Occurring Food Sources" and mention on their label which exact foods those sources are. Also, any vitamin products that carry the NOS (Naturally Occurring Standard) logo are safe and guaranteed to have vitamin potencies that only come from real, whole foods" (p. 161).
Additional myths exposed are that vitamin studies are reliable, and we are given a list of 5 reasons why. We also learn to mistrust the label "Natural" as it really can include toxic additives. Common additives found in supplements include fillers, binders, disintegrants, lubricants, flavoring agents, coloring agents, coating materials and preservatives.
There is an entire chapter devoted to the fallacy of fish oils. Brian explains that they are based on fish that is toxic, and this creates lipid peroxide contamination. There has been a lot of propaganda to take fish oil especially for its DHA benefits (the brain being about 60% DHA). I disagree with Brian that most people can get their Omega 3s from flax seeds, chia seeds, and walnuts, and let the body convert them to the DHA and EPA that the brain so desperately needs. People who are over 30 (unless they have been vegan most their lives), sick, toxic, or have a history of taking drugs often need to take the DHA and EPA directly---either from fish, algae or eggs from chickens that were fed flax or chia seeds.
An in-depth chapter is provided about the role of specific vitamins, and another on the main minerals. Appendix A gives us food sources for these nutrients. These chapters make this a great resource book!
The end of the book contains alarming information about Codex. Their goal (since 1962) has been that the drug companies will (on Dec 31, 2009!) take over the vitamins, making them available (except minute, ineffective dosages) only by doctor's prescriptions. And they will probably become as expensive as drugs! Who knows whether they will even carry NOS vitamins? We are losing our health freedom because the mainstream media (virtually owned by the drug companies) is silent about this.
Update: I just saw the author of this book give a lecture last night. Brian says he just got word that Codex did NOT pass, so we will continue to have our supplements and (relative) health freedom for at least 2 more years!
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