DR. DHAI BARR
AGING SOLUTIONS -Blending Art, Beauty, and Health
  • Dr. Dhai Barr
    • Schedule Here
  • About Dr. Barr
  • Aesthetic Medicine
    • PRP "Platelet Rich Plasma"
    • Microneedeling
    • FACE
  • Blog
  • Dr. Dhai's Recommended Supplements
  • Specials

​How do you really know what’s in your supplements?

6/19/2017

3 Comments

 
Picture
​The United States enjoys liberal access to nutritional supplements. We can buy virtually any supplement from multiple sources either at the local grocery store or online. Other countries can be more stringent when it comes to access and don’t enjoy near the wide range of variety.

However, the freedom around nutritional supplements in the United States means consumers must be wary of shoddy, fraudulent, and even unsafe supplements with misleading claims. It’s important to learn how to be a smart supplement shopper to make the most of our supplement-shopping freedom.

You may be surprised to learn the worst supplements aren’t from some shadowy corner of the internet, but rather usually from your local drug or grocery store.
​
At the same time, it’s also important to protect consumer access to supplements. The FDA’s approach to the industry is often viewed as unnecessarily aggressive due, it is widely believed, to the influence of the pharmaceutical industry. As the rates of “untreatable” or “mysterious” chronic diseases and dementia continue to skyrocket, people increasingly turn to alternative health care and nutritional supplements to address their health concerns. This has turned the supplement industry into one worth many billions of dollars.

What supplements to avoid
The supplement industry as created its own standards of quality that manufacturers can choose to comply with in order to reassure their buyers only the purest ingredients are used.

Avoid cheap, mass marketed supplements comprised of synthetic or inflammatory fillers (such as wheat and corn), poor quality ingredients, inactive ingredients, and artificial colors. There is also no way of knowing how shipping and storing has affected the ingredients.

What to look for in quality supplements
For starters, avoid fillers that use wheat, corn, starches, and magnesium stearate. Also, research the origin of the ingredients. Herbal ingredients can come from heavily polluted areas in other countries and be loaded with toxins. Good companies test their ingredients for toxins.

Research the brand. Are they formulated with a health-care professional and scientific advisory board? Are there peer-reviewed studies to back up the ingredients? Does the company test purity?

What is their marketing like? Do they use sleazy snake-oil selling tactics? Or do they cater to licensed practitioners and provide educational seminars to teach about the products and how best to incorporate them into a health care plan?

Also, look for supplement companies that send their products out to independent labs to test for quality and purity.
NSF International, and independent organization, certifies supplements on three levels of quality:
  • Certified Good manufacturing practices (CGMPs): Guidelines that assure a product conforms with what’s listed its label.
  • American National Standard for dietary supplement products: Testing that ensures products contain what is on the label and not undeclared contaminants.
  • NSF Certified for Sport: Screens for athletic banned substances.
 
What I always say, is to choose a supplement company that polices itself, or better yet choose supplements that I have already policed.  I choose supplements from reputable companies.  My recommendations support my ability to be a good doctor and to help your body heal itself.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 



3 Comments
online editing services link
7/16/2017 11:34:38 pm

I never took extra pills to lose weight or adjust my metabolism. It seems to me that this is stupid

Reply
cv company link
7/18/2017 05:10:01 am

I carefully research first before taking in any supplements. It's very uncommon for athletes taking in random supplements. You don't know the side effects of the one's your drinking. This is the reason why I have a professional to consult with. I always consult him first whenever I find some new supplements.

Reply
Public Sex Yukon link
12/15/2022 11:13:49 pm

I enjoyed reading thiis

Reply



Leave a Reply.

    Author
    Dr. Dhai Barr has spent her life touring France, Canada, and the United States learning her craft from the masters of medical aesthetics. She believes that health and vitality are the foundation of beauty.

      Sign up for Updates

    Subscribe to Newsletter

    Archives

    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2018
    April 2018
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    September 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013

    Categories

    All
    320 Oswego Pointe Drive
    Aesthetic Arts
    Center For Traditional Medicine
    Cholesterol
    Dr. Barr ND
    Hcg Diet
    Hdl
    Ldl
    Melanoma
    Nutrition
    Skin Cancer
    Skin Care
    Skin Care In Portland Or
    Support Group

    RSS Feed

    Blogs Worth Reading

    foodpolitics.com
    foodsaftynews.com