1. What are the "Other Ingredients" on the label?
   Many supplements test toxic due to "other ingredients" added to the product, listed under "Supplement Facts". Avoid toxic ingredients: magnesium stearate or stearic acid (toxic flowing agents), silicon dioxide (common sand used as an expensive filler that makes the bottle weigh more with the hope that the uneducated consumer will equate weight with higher quality), natural flavors (a common term for toxic MSG used to disguise bland tastes), methylcellulose, carnuba wax, titanium dioxide, and many more. If you are not sure of what you are taking, do not take it!
   
   These toxic chemical agents can create significant health problems when consumed over time. Consume products that contain only nutritive ingredients from complexes of once living source plant concentrates, not synthetics or fractionated vitamins created in a laboratory test tube.

   Do Not Be Duped!

   All this time, you thought you were doing something really good for yourself by taking a daily multi-vitamin or other supplements, but the vitamin pills you have been taking are most likely synthetic! Most vitamin products are made from synthetic or isolated nutrients - forms that do not naturally occur in nature. They are made in labs, often from toxic substances. Synthetic vitamins only mimic the real vitamin forms found in nature. These artificial forms may help you in the short run, especially if you are seriously vitamin deficient, but in the long run, they can age you faster and create even more serious health symptoms and challenges.
   
   Take B Vitamins For Example.
   A good example of "junk" nutritional supplements is B vitamins. Most people do not know that most B vitamins are made from petrochemicals! For your best health, take a whole-nutrient B vitamin and avoid synthetics. Synthetics will be listed on the label as follows: Vitamin B1 (thiamine), Vitamin B2 (riboflavin), Vitamin B3 (niacin), Vitamin B5 (calcium pantothenate). In contrast, whole-nutrient living source B vitamins, as found in liquid B extracts and top quality nutritional flakes (made from Saccharomyces cervisae grown on molasses), are not synthetic and provide a full spectrum of naturally occurring B vitamins.
   
   
   But what is wrong with isolated vitamins?
   In addition to being synthetic, isolated vitamins are missing all their naturally occurring essential synergistic co-factors and transporters. A synthetic vitamin can stimulate a cell's metabolism, but it cannot upgrade or replace the cell's components with superior, better quality elements. The results? A degraded cell.
    

2. Does the label say "Manufactured By" or "Manufactured For"?
   When a company turns over the manufacturing process to someone else, they lose control of how the product is made. Toxic agents may be added to the product or sneaky substitutions can be made in orderto save money.
    

3. Has the product been clinically tested?
   Many products rely on "testimonies" and anecdotal stories to promote their products. The beneficial results may be from the product or some other reason. The only way to be sure a product works is when there are clinical tests of the product to be sure they work the way they are designed to work. Most nutritional products available today have not been clinically tested. When you use them, you cannot be sure they will be of any effect. A product may sound good on an infomercial or from the hype of a distributor of the supplement, but unless it has been clinically tested, you have no way of knowing whether or not it truly works. Before buying a product, be sure it has been clinically tested.

Get The Best

Throw out your commercial multi-vitamins and their toxic ingredients. Even if you got a bargain - your health did not! Research shows that even a small amount of naturally occurring vitamin in its whole nutrient matrix can outperform the same synthetic vitamin in much larger amounts. For example, synthetic vitamin A (palmitate) is far less effective than natural vitamin A that is found in young green grasses. In addition to vitamin A, young grasses contain every nutrient known to sustain life; vitamin A palmitate does not.