This begins a series of articles exposing the harmful contents of the dietary supplements most Americans use daily and trust their health to.

I was not aware of many of the harmful chemicals and additives commonly found in dietary supplements until I did some investigation of the contents labels on the twenty or so supplements I was taking for years. What I found out was enough to make me quit using supplements completely.

The first notice I made of this was when I read the contents of the Natrol Cinnamon Extract I was taking to reduce my blood sugar. I found the label includes a list of fillers, including three or four hidden sugars. To a recovering diabetic using this product for blood sugar control, this is potentially devastating. Among the other ingredients, I also found several salts – not the stuff you want to be ingesting if you also have high blood pressure. The reason I consulted the label, in the first place, was to see if there was something in the product that might be keeping my blood sugar from lowering, as I expected it to do in response to the paleolithic diet I’ve been on since November 2007. Sure enough, those hidden sugars were enough to prevent any further progress. So, I threw out my remaining supply. After quitting the cinnamon extract, my blood sugar began to drop again.

For this first installment, I will cover some typical supplements you may be taking, all of which were among those I used until recently. Not surprisingly, these are all available at Walmart, one of the chief multinational corporations involved in the SPP and paving the way into our country for poisoned Chinese goods.

Spring Valley Vitamin A, 8,000 I.U.:

Other Ingredients: Soybean Oil [all soy-based products have been found to cause intestinal porosity, a condition in which toxins from partially digested food seep through the lining of the colon and into the bloodstream and the body’s cavities, in turn causing various autoimmune diseases], Gelatin (non-bovine), glycerin [a sugar], fish liver oil & water.

Manufactured by:
Pharmavite LLC

Mission Hills, California 91346-9606
Also on the label: “This product is formulated using the highest standards you’ve come to expect from all Wal-Mart products.” [Yep, that’s what worries me!]

Spring Valley Alpha Lipoic Acid, 200 mg:

Other Ingredients: Rice powder, gelatin , cellulose (plant origin), vegetable magnesium stearate [still a salt, regardless of origin].
Other content information:
“…no sodium (less than 5 mg per serving)” [If it contains any added salts, which is what magnesium stearate is, then there is sodium in it!]
Spring Valley Vitamin B6, 100 mg:
Other Ingredients: Dextrose [a highly glycemic sugar], hydroxypropyl methylcellulose [another sugar] and magnesium stearate [a salt]

Manufactured by: Schiff Nutrition Group, Salt Lake City, UT 84104

Spring Valley Vitamin B-12, 1,000 mcg:
Vitamin B-12, 1mg (1,000 mcg), 16,667% of RDA
Vitamin B-12 in form of cyanocobalamin
Calcium (as dicalcium phosphate), 30mg, 3% of RDA
Other ingredients: Dextrose, hydroxypropyl methylcellulose and magnesium stearate

Manufactured by: Schiff Nutrition International, Salt Lake City, UT 84104 [could it be this corporation is run by the same Schiff family that bankrolled the creation of the Soviet Union?]

Spring Valley Flush Free Niacin (inositol hexanicotinate), 500mg:
Other ingredients: Gelatin [no source stated], vegetable stearic acid, silica [sand], vegetable magnesium stearate
“…no sodium (less than 5mg per serving)…” No? Then what do you call magnesium stearate, which is a salt?
Manufacturer: Nature’s Bounty, Inc., Bohemia, NY 11716-2510

Oh, I almost forgot. Natrol’s Cinnamon Extract also contains carnauba wax ! Yum!

More to come…

 Gary