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Alternative Medicine / Natural Supplements -- Pharmaceutical Grade/Quality
Reprinted by permission from Smart Eats, Smart Supplements and Smart Exercise by Dusty R. Green, M.Ed.SmartBodyz Nutrition respects commercial and MLM supplement companies for helping bring recognition to the alternative medicine field. However, we regularly discover problems with pricing and quality control issues associated with most commercial and MLM companies as stated below:
Alternative medicine -- most commercial and MLM supplement companies do not use pharmaceutical quality ingredients. Food grade is bought daily on the open market by most commercial supplement companies looking for the absolute bottom dollar without regard to quality. As a result, the consumer is fed inferior product containing unnecessary, binders, fillers, etc. Many are known to combine very low amounts of beneficial nutrients and high amounts of harmful toxic compounds such as coal tars, arsenic, lead, shellac, etc. Food grade is their preferred choice since they spend most of their budget on advertising and marketing. They cannot offer you quality product while spending thousands to millions of dollars on marketing and advertising.
Commercial products such as Theragran, Centrum, One-A-Day, GNC, and more are very expensive on a cost-per-gram basis. Multi-level companies such as Mannatech, Amway, Stanley, New Vision, etcetera, are also expensive cost-per-gram. When compared to non-commercial products such as Life Extension Foundation and Vitamin Research Products, cost-per-gram drops considerably. It's easy to calculate when comparing labels.
Commercial varieties use the "short-change tactic." You are not getting the optimum amounts your body needs of all the micro-nutrients for the same price you pay for high quality products. Most commercial varieties do not base their formulas on solid scientific evidence. One aspect of high quality is a process used in manufacturing called High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) -- very clean supplements. In addition, independent laboratory analyses of product line is a must. If the company you buy from cannot supply an independent laboratory analysis at your request, there is a probability you are consuming unnecessary binders/fillers and/or other compounds. For more information on how commercial and multi-level companies operate, click here.
Micro-nutrients (vitamins and such) which are taken per recommendations drawn from scientific studies, are designed to support strong immune systems and high energy levels. Most scientific studies use pharmaceutical grade/quality when evaluating/testing supplements -- the standard by which quality companies abide. Most people buy/consume expensive food grade product (grocery, drug, and health food store varieties) which are marked-up to cover advertising and marketing costs.
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