Supplements Exposed: The Truth They Don't Want You to Know about Vitamins, Minerals, and Their Effects on Your Health

EXCELLENT RESOURCE for Anyone proactive or researching what might be good for health, well-being, longevity or "Youthful Evolution". This book is very insightful and can help you make conscious well informed decisions. -Jeanne Nichols

This is the best and most factual book I have ever read on naturally occuring vitamins, rather than synthetic vitamins developed by Big Pharma and sold under the name of 'natural'. If you want true vitamins in addition to those you consume via eating, purchase organic full spectrum whole foods vitamins ... and do yourself a good deed by reading this book....will save you thousands of dollars.

Dr. Clement is the real thing, and this book doesn't disappoint. It is informative, especially including information you won't get elsewhere. He rocks the mega-billion vitamin industry boat, which it needs, while giving you the cold, hard facts. I can't imagine anyone reaching for a drugstore bottle of vitamins after reading this.

most of it is quite good but do not support most vitamins other then less concentrated food based vitamins. I believe there are quite a few higher rated vitamins that will help treat illness. the ones they recommend I believe do more to keep someone healthy but not high enough potency to treat illness.

In this provocative, well researched book, Dr. Brian Clement challenges everything we think we know about supplements. The first myth he exposes is that we can get our nutrition without supplements, from food alone. He cites a US Senate report dating 1936 which proved that our soil is depleted in nutrients, and explains that even organic soil is insufficient! He proceeds to give us the history of vitamin manufacturing, and the more you read, the more you realize it sounds little better than the drug companies! Another misconception is that synthetics vitamins are equal to natural nutrients, or even effective or absorbed at all. (In fact, many indigested vitamins are found in Port Potties!) As director of the Hippocrates Institute, he has examined the blood of over 11,000 guests who used synthetic supplements and has shown this to be true. But here is where it gets tricky: Synthetic vitamins are allowed to label their product as being from whole foods or from a food source by legal loopholes--when in fact they simply have a base of algae, yeast or other bacterium or food medium that was spiked with synthetic vitamins! Sorry all you MLMers--even multi-level supplements usually come from the same sources, the same synthetic vitamin manufacturers. Our best option is to purchase "products that state on their label that their vitamin or mineral or nutrient potencies came from "Naturally Occurring Food Sources" and mention on their label which exact foods those sources are. Also, any vitamin products that carry the NOS (Naturally Occurring Standard) logo are safe and guaranteed to have vitamin potencies that only come from real, whole foods" (p. 161). Additional myths exposed are that vitamin studies are reliable, and we are given a list of 5 reasons why. We also learn to mistrust the label "Natural" as it really can include toxic additives. Common additives found in supplements include fillers, binders, disintegrants, lubricants, flavoring agents, coloring agents, coating materials and preservatives. There is an entire chapter devoted to the fallacy of fish oils. Brian explains that they are based on fish that is toxic, and this creates lipid peroxide contamination. There has been a lot of propaganda to take fish oil especially for its DHA benefits (the brain being about 60% DHA). I disagree with Brian that most people can get their Omega 3s from flax seeds, chia seeds, and walnuts, and let the body convert them to the DHA and EPA that the brain so desperately needs. People who are over 30 (unless they have been vegan most their lives), sick, toxic, or have a history of taking drugs often need to take the DHA and EPA directly---either from fish, algae or eggs from chickens that were fed flax or chia seeds. An in-depth chapter is provided about the role of specific vitamins, and another on the main minerals. Appendix A gives us food sources for these nutrients. These chapters make this a great resource book! The end of the book contains alarmi