#21D: Dietary Supplements: What's The Difference?

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Special Report #21D

 

Part of the

“I see you to succeeding"

series.

 

Dietary Supplements: 

What’s the difference?

 

...you decide.

Jenny

 

Jenny says, "I had been very tired, bitchy, paranoid, ornery and depressed with severe mood swings...basically a basket case ever since my husband first knew me.”

 

Thinking it was hormone related, the doctors put her on a birth control pill called Deprovera. Her doctor told her it had side effects but she took it anyway because she did not want to have to take a birth control pill every day. "My doctor also prescribed vitamins; five different bottles at $55 each,” said Jenny.

 

"My husband told me not to take it also. I started in September and took it once every three months for a year. Exactly on the one year anniversary, mid September, I started bleeding uncontrollably. Some of the clots were bigger than golf balls. I was using a box of Kotex in less than 12 hours. I was taken to the emergency room four times. Every time I went the doctors said there was nothing they could do for me and I should just go home and wait until the blood clots stopped coming. They finally sent me to a specialist who said, "Guess what... your insides are messed up. If you get pregnant your child will probably be deformed and you probably will not carry the baby to full term." The bleeding would stop for a few days then start again. So my doctor put me on a birth control pill and the bleeding stopped."

 

Jenny's original doctor had long since refused to return her calls or respond to her at all. Her husband learned about the different kinds of vitamins on the market and suggested she take food concentrates. Her husband put her prescription vitamins in cups with water and the food concentrates in separate cups on the kitchen table. But Jenny said, "I did not want any part of it.” By this time she said her husband was at his wits end because he kept having to rush her to the hospital, not to mention her disposition most of the time.

 

Jenny would not look into the cups but her husband left the cups on the table and after 5 days she peaked into the cups. The prescription vitamins were still sitting there undissolved. The food concentrates were completely dissolved. She started on the food concentrates in mid December. Two years later she gave birth to a healthy baby. Sarah sent pictures to her original doctor, but her doctor did not respond back.

 

Wendy says, "I knew I was headed down the road to some really bad health problems. I was at the bad symptom stage of health. I was constantly running to the doctor and taking medications. I really was not getting any help. The symptom stage is where you have a choice. You can continue the route of medication which temporarily covers up the symptoms or you can make some changes, use nutrition and go for optimal health."

 

"I did not think nutrition could help me that much. How could some nutrition make any difference in my life? I had taken vitamins for all these years of my life so I thought I was pretty healthy.”

 

"I had extreme fatigue, problems maintaining my blood sugar, I had vein problems, leg aches, I could not stand for more than an hour, digestive problems, allergies, food made me sick, chronic coughing, menstrual problems including PMS that was out of control and I missed work each month. I also had leg cramps, stigmatism in both eyes, dry skin and depression. It ran in my family so I thought I was normal."

Dave

 

Dave says, "My being here is a testimony to the power of food concentrates. I just rebounded in a miraculous time period. I attribute it to the Good Lord, a lot of loving care from my family and concentrated food. First afflicted in my mid twenties with rectal bleeding, it lasted eight months and I saw three specialists. I had to look for a restroom everywhere I went. In December 1991 I spent $10,000 in one week in the hospital hemorrhaging and having diarrhea 20 to 30 times a day. I puffed up like a water melon from the medications.”

"In February 1992 I was still having the same problems and not getting better and I lost complete control of my bowels seven times. I have my own business and I would be in a business transaction and nearly knock the table over trying to make it to the restroom, only not to make it there on time. In March 1993 I was totally incapacitated for two weeks. I had diarrhea 30-50 times a day and I was crying with unbearable pain while going to the bathroom. I increased the drugs and went into the emergency room on a Saturday morning. This time I was there 23 days at a cost of $35,000." 

 

"I got on my food concentrates and within 10 days I had no problems and I am symptom free.” "Now on five medications, no veins left from the IV, still bleeding rectally, they put a hole in me to put food in me. I was in the hospital bed fighting with the doctors and two different nutritionists because they wanted to take me off the food concentrates and put me on a product called Ensure. I was showing them what was in the food concentrates and what was in the Ensure. "They didn't get it.” "I had not slept for more than three hours in three months. The doctors wanted me to get an ileostomy. In 7 years I did not go 90 days without problems." "I got on my food concentrates and within 10 days I had no problems and I am symptom free.”

 

There is no tricking the body... the cells know the difference.

 

In January 2000 the Food and Drug Administration made a ruling on The Dietary Supplement Act of 1994. Previous to 2000, manufacturers of vitamins, minerals and other supplements could not make any claims about what their products “do” for the body and health. This created a huge gap between the information about what the benefits of supplements and consumer's ability to make use of the information. In other words, when I was managing the GNC store, we could have books about what supplements to take for each particular health condition, but the books could not even be displayed beside the products that were described. Nor could we legally tell people which products would do what.

 

It was another case where the FDA was performing a balancing act between what us tax-paying consumers wanted and what the supplement industry lobbyists wanted and how to provide both without endangering the public's health. The “medical treatment” industry played a role too. The pharmaceutical industry did not want people to resort to less expensive methods that they could purchase from their relative or friend.

  

Their fiber supplement would have to compete with prescription drugs on the open market, even though it was food. The company chose to market it without letting consumers know how dramatically it produced benefits, in favor of getting it on the market sooner. At first they called it "Heart Plan.” But that was too much for the FDA also, so they ended up changing the name. 

Years previous, Stanford University did a clinical test on a fiber supplement. The results of the test were astounding. They found that the fiber supplement worked so well at reducing cholesterol that if they wanted to inform the public of the benefits they would have to classify it as a drug and it would be another 10 years before it would ever get to the open market, if it was even accepted by the FDA at all.

 

As of 2000, part of the final ruling was that products could explain potential benefits on the label, but there also has to be a disclaimer stating: "These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.”

 

Different kinds of vitamin supplements?

 

The National Academy of Sciences says, "The various forms of Vitamin E need to be reevaluated to determine their relative strength and make labels more understandable.”

 

"Vitamin E in capsule form, from soybeans (concentrated food), has been found to be twice as effective as synthetic versions from petroleum products.”

 

"Vitamin E from soybeans is called d-alpha. The synthetic version is called dl-alpha. Additionally Vitamin E from food can fall into any of eight different categories.” (can be called eight different names and contain eight different beneficial types of Vitamin E).

 

"Nutritionists said, “…estimates of Vitamin E are difficult to make and there are insufficient distinctions (among supplement companies), among types of E.”

 

“Most nutrition data bases, as well as nutrition labels do not distinguish among different types. Data is often measured in the form of alpha-tocopherol equivalents.” (the real food form, yet the marketing and distribution of synthetic versions refer to the standards of food Vitamin E to support the use of synthetic Vitamin E).

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"Because the various forms of Vitamin E are not inter-convertable, it is recommended that relative biological potencies of the various forms of E be reevaluated and researchers should report separately on actual concentrations of each of the various Vitamin E forms.”

 

The best of science and the best of nature:

 

Next are some excerpts from an article ran on April 17, 2000 by The PR Newswire and A Seattle Newspaper.

 

 

In other words, E from food is twice as effective as synthetic E. Vitamin E from food is what the people and books in the nutrition industry are referring to when they say how much to consume, but synthetic supplement manufacturers make cheaper, less potent and less effective forms out of waste petroleum products and measure and label it as if it were from food... they are not making distinctions between synthetic and food concentrates and they do not convert the same in the body. Then, consumers on a budget are mislead when comparing prices of synthetics to food concentrates.

 

That is one of the Reasons you may have not received Results! before.

 

I remember a lady that had been experiencing fibroid tumors in her breast. She would take the food concentrate Vitamin E and they would go away. When she ran out, she would take the synthetic E and they would come back. After a few times of this, she was convinced and stuck with the food concentrate E.

 

If you have supplemented your diet with dietary supplements of any kind in the past and got minimal or no Results, or even negative side effects, here are just a few potential Reasons why...

 

How about you?

 Would you say there is a difference?

 

• The Los Angeles Times ran a story about having 10 brands of St. John's Wort, a popular herb used for depression, tested. Seven out of ten had less key ingredients than promised on the label. Three had less than 50% of what was promised on the label.

• A study mentioned in The New York Times revealed they 60% of certain pure herbal supplements were so watered down that they were worthless.

• Consumer Labs, tested 30 brands of Ginko Biloba, a popular herb for memory and concentration, in August 1999. 25% had less key ingredients than promised on the label.

• Consumer Labs, tested 27 brands of Saw Palmetto, a popular herb for the prostate gland in men, in December 1999. Ten had less than the required beneficial ingredients. One had zero beneficial ingredients.

• Consumer Labs, tested 13 brands of SAM-E (S-adenosyl-methionene), in March 2000. Six had as much as 50% less than the label promised.

• Consumer Labs, tested 35 brands of calcium, in August 2000. Four contained less than the label. One had 53%, one had 61%, one had 82% and one had 91% of what the label promised.

•  Consumer Labs, tested 22 brands of Ginseng, one of the most widely used herbal  supplements in the world. Two, had 20 times the allowable amount of quintozene and or hexachlorobenzene (known poisons). Two had high lead content and seven had less than the required concentration on the active part of the plant.

•  Dr. Bob Doster, who has worked in the food industry for years, tested 14 brands of  B-Complex supplements right off the store shelves. Eleven of them did not contain what the label stated and or failed to be absorbable by the body.

• He also tested 63 different acidophilous supplements (pro-biotics / the good bacteria found in our intestines). Only 5% contained the amount of good bacteria the label claimed.

•   In November 2013, several people on the Hawaiian Island of Oahu, suffered liver    damage from a dietary supplement marketed as a weight loss supplement at GNC. At least one person died of liver failure. 

• In 2014 a guest of Dr. Oz's show was fined $9 million for marketing a green tea dietary supplement which he represented as being tested, effective and safe. He also misrepresented himself as a physician. 
   
  John C. Reed MD An Arlington, Virginia physician and Vice President of Media Affairs for American Wholehealth says, “Buy from a reputable brand name supplement company that states assay the product for viable organisms…Even if they correctly label it, it doesn’t mean healthy bacteria actually end up living in your gut.”
  
  Dallas Magazine had 40 products from five different stores independently tested. 50% did not meet label claims. Five had no active ingredients at all. Whole Foods Store brand had streptococcus bacteria in the pills.
  
  
  
  Store Manager, Casey Rose, of Fresh Market at Oak Lawn in Dallas said, "I have a lot of confidence in Solgar (brand), since they have been in business since 1947... there are a whole lot of reasons why I like them... they do not take short cuts in the manufacturing... they're the Cadillac of the vitamin industry.” 
   
  In the testing, Solgar performed the worst of all.
  The following is an excerpt from an article in A Seattle Newspaper, Sunday March 19, 2000:
   
  "In 1998, California investigators found that nearly one third of 260 herbal products contained lead, mercury and or diabetes drugs that were not listed on the label.”
  Pediatrician Hillary Perr reported on children from wealthy California families who became malnourished from eating snack foods that contained herbs. (The herbs, acting as stimulants to the body caused the bodies of the children to use up nutrients, leaving them malnourished after eating the “healthy snacks”).
   
  In 1999, GHB, (gamma-hydroxybutyrate), a body building supplement was responsible for three Florida Poison Control Centers logging 549 negative incidences and two deaths. The same year the FDA threatened lawsuits and search and seizure. One year later, with reports even higher, Congress outlawed GHB. There have been 60 deaths reported from GHB so far.
   
  Rexall Sundown's St. John's Wort herbal formula had only 20% of the labeled potency. In addition, Rexall used legitimate peer-reviewed research work to support the claims for their product, even though they hadn't done any research with their own product.
   
  A vitamin supplement was recalled that contained folic acid, which
  women take to reduce the chances of having a baby with birth
  defects, because it contained only 35% of the amount claimed on the label.
    
  APNewswire, October 26, 1999. Olathe, Kansas. A high school football player collapsed on the field after consuming "Ripped Fuel" a dietary herbal supplement containing Ma Huang.
   
  The April 2000 issue of Emergency Medicine reported about a 30 year old athlete who took androstenedione, a testosterone precursor. Touted as an “enhancer of athletic performance” his friend told him, "Those pills will help build muscle size.” He took it for seven days and by the time he was admitted to the emergency room he had been suffering for more than 30 hours with a painful, persistent erection. If untreated, tissue damage could have resulted. This condition is known as priapism.
   
  Women's Sport and Fitness Magazine ran an article entitled, Brave New Foods. Jed Fahey, research associate at John Hopkins University School of Medicine tested 20 brands of SGS (sulforphane glucosinolate), a known anti-tumor agent found in broccoli. 15 of the 20 contained either no SGS or far less than the label claimed.
   
  You see, there is very little regulation
  of the dietary supplement market.
   
   
  Drugs, chemicals and contaminated products can be on the market for years, even when they are causing deaths before the companies or those responsible are shut down or products are pulled from the shelves.
   
  Basically, anything can be labeled as a dietary supplement and until there is proof that the product has been dangerous to many, many people, business continues.
   
  Labeling of dietary supplements often indicates, incorrectly, that they meet standards set by the United States Pharmacopoeia. However, the United States Pharmacopoeia does not verify that products bearing the USP designation meet their standards of quality, and that includes promises made about ingredients listed on the label. Most of the dietary supplement companies in existence today are nothing more than marketing and advertising companies, promoting the 'ideas' of health but lack enough integrity to actually improve health with the products they promote and have nothing to do with building health at the cellular level.
   
  This is how some companies work: They figure out their target market, say... “weight loss” or “body building” then they hire a dietary supplement bottling company to put their label with implied benefits on the bottle. And then they start selling them. They are not necessarily effective or safe, there is very little regulation and too few people to enforce the laws that are in existence.
   
  You see, the dietary supplement act allows legitimate companies to share the facts about their products, but it also allows the dishonest people time to make a ton of money until they are shut down.
   
  It is a buyer beware market. I have literally heard of companies that first figure out how high their risk of losing a liability law suit is. Then they figure out how much profit is at stake. Last on their priority list is public safety. The way they look at is the very worst that can happen is that they will be forced to close their business, then they just open up under a different name.
  
  
  
  By using certain supplements, you can have more energy and at the same time be doing damage to your body. Nervous system stimulant herbal formulas are in this category.
   
  Paul
   
  When Paul's son Daniel was about three years old he noticed his son seemed to have something wrong with his behavior. He took him to several doctors. At about age five and a half, one doctor diagnosed him as autistic and recommended medicating him.  Paul's older son said, "Do not medicate him, his personality is too nice.”
   
  Paul got Daniel on some dietary supplements from the store including the herb Ginko Biloba. The supplements were contaminated and as a result, he went into anaphylactic shock. By this time his behavior was getting worse including many phobias including the water. When people visited Paul's home Daniel would hide under the table. He also became afraid of other children including his brother. Within one month of beginning on food concentrates the phobias went away. And he would jump off a 12 foot diving platform into the pool and he was all over his brother, hugging and kissing him and even talking to strangers. Although this case might sound too real to be true, you know what they say about truth being stranger than fiction.
   
  If you would like my assistance getting on a dietary supplement program which assures better health, performance and attainment of your goals, or know anyone who might call or write me at the above contact information 
  
  
  
  
  If you prefer to look on your own, go to my website listed below. I guarantee you'll get better results than you have with any other supplements you've ever used, or you get your money back. It's that simple.
   
  http://bnbbs.myshaklee.com
   
  I do offer a 15% - 25% discount membership, which you will see on the website.
   
  Enjoy!