"Dirty Dozen" In Your Vitamins - Could You Be A Victim?
There are three different types of vitamins; synthetic, natural altered, and natural unaltered. Of the three, only natural UNaltered can be utilized by the body.
An extremely important factor in a multi-vitamin -- is it alive or dead? You need life to create life – not destroy it. The scam is that you can swallow synthetic vitamins (many of them are labeled NATURAL) whose source is petroleum or coal tar and expect to build health. It is NOT possible.
How can you tell the difference? How can you know if the product you are taking is GMO-free? There are a couple of tests you can do to help determine if your vitamins can be assimilated by your body.
Dirty Dozen In Vitamins - How To Tell The Difference
Here are several stats that should make you stand up and take notice: A common problem with many pharmacy-grade and health food store products is that they do not make the grade in Consumer Lab testing.
EVEN WORSE: Many of these multi-vitamins contained EXCESSIVE amounts of lead - INCLUDING (and this is where I get ill) pre-natal multi-vitamins.
Below is an image of good vitamins vs bad vitamins:
consumption.
Avoid The Dirty Dozen In Vitamins - Choose Vitamin Companies With Integrity
Does your food supplement company produce hormone products? A company with integrity will not produce hormone products as this is something the body will produce on its own if given the proper tools - nutrients. Taking hormones can create a dependency, an addiction, in which the body stops doing its job of producing the hormone for itself.
Does your vitamin company have ANY of the DIRTY DOZEN bad ingredients in their nutritional supplements? If they have even one of these ingredients in any of their products, it is NOT a company with integrity and I would never trust them.
On "Good Morning America," ABC News senior health and medical editor Dr. Richard Besser discussed these 12 ingredients - the DIRTY DOZEN.
(Source: Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database, Professional Version, June 2010)
1. Aconite
Used for: Joint pain, inflammation
Possible risks: Toxicity, respiratory system paralysis, heart rhythm disorders, death.
2. Bitter Orange
Used for: Weight loss, allergies
Possible risks: Heart- rhythm disorders, heart attack, stroke, death
3. Chaparral
Used for: Colds, weight loss, infections, inflammation, cancer
Possible risks: Liver damage, kidney problems.
4. Colloidal Silver
This one touches a sensitive spot with me. My friend 'swore' by colloidal silver. Took it every day and I did everything conceivable to convince her how harmful it was -- she would not listen.
She died of cancer from toxic metal poisoning.
Used for: Fungal and other infections, Lyme disease, rosacea, psoriasis, chronic fatigue, AIDS/HIV
Possible risks: Neurological problems, kidney damage
5. Coltsfoot
Used for: cough, sore throat, bronchitis, asthma
Possible risks: Liver damage, cancer
6. Comfrey
Used for: Cough, heavy menstrual periods, chest pain, cancer
Possible risks: Liver damage, cancer
7. Country Mallow
Used for: Nasal congestion, allergies, asthma weight loss, bronchitis
Possible risks: Heart attack, heart arrhythmia, stroke, death
8. Germanium
Used for: Pain, infections, glaucoma, liver problems, arthritis, heart disease, HIV/AIDS, cancer
Possible risks: Kidney damage, death
9. Greater Calendine
Used for: Upset stomach, IBS, liver disorders, cancer
Possible risks: Liver damage
10. Kava
Used for: Anxiety
Possible risks: Liver damage
11. Lobelia
Used for: Coughing, bronchitis, asthma, smoking cessation
Possible risks: Toxicity, very low blood pressure, coma, possibly death
12. Yohimbe
Yohimbe Used for: Aphrodisiac, chest pain, diabetic complications, depression, erectile dysfunction
Possible risks: High blood pressure; high doses can cause severely low blood pressure, heart problems, death
Stay Away From Dirty Dozen In Vitamins
These are ingredients that many vitamin companies use and try to trick you into believing they will IMPROVE your health. Ask your company if they use them -- You Be The Judge.
You have the right to ask these questions. If you truly care about your health, your future, and your family's future, please take the time to check the food supplements you are using. I will analyze them for you at no charge when I receive your completed questionnaire.