Wondering WHY you are NOT improving???You are going to be VERY, VERY ANGRY when you read this!!!

[PDWarrior1900]

If you're like me, you're spending HUNDREDS of DOLLARS every month on supplements, right?

Well ... I stumbled on this entirely by accident ...

I ordered a vitamin on Amazon. On the Amazon page it read: "MADE in the USA."

Great, right? Because 98% of the vitamins sold on Amazon do NOT say that.

But when I got the vitamins delivered ... the bottle read:

"Formulated in the USA" .... NOT NOT NOT ... "Made in the USA"

That's FRAUD.

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This is where the story gets good ... and bad ... for all of us who consume vitamins to fight our PD.

I sent a 'WARNING' email to the vitamin company about their FALSE ADVERTISING. I got a very weak reply without apology.

So ... I Googled "consumer protection attorney" for the city in which the company has its headquarters.

GOOD NEWS! I just got an email from the founder of a prestigious law firm (multiple offices in a BIG state) that wants to file a CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT.

BAD NEWS! In my further research about any other legal complaints about this vitamin company --- ... I also found many complaints about other "reputable" vitamin companies which have been accused of POISONING us with toxins and contaminants IN THEIR VITAMINS (and "health food") including:

*LEAD

*CADMIUM

*ARSENIC

*ACRYLAMIDE

*MERCURY

*FURAN

*BISPHENOL A

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Review the list of vitamin companies HERE to see if any of YOUR VITAMINS (and food) are on the list of offending companies feeding us ... POISON!

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Here are 3,700 legal actions taken against vitamin and food companies since 2020!!!

foodindustrycounsel.com/med...

[Dabaa]

Interesting. I often get the urge to have a supplement fast. Maybe now I'll do it. Or try filtered-air breatharianism...

[park_bear]

Thanks for providing this list. I looked at the first couple of dozen entries. It looks like almost all the items are foods rather than supplements. I would not call this good news, but supplements are not the main offender here.

[PDWarrior1900 in reply to park_bear]

scroll all the way through pal --- there are 3,700 in that list and LOTS of vitamin companies have been served LEGAL NOTICE for toxins!

[Boscoejean in reply to PDWarrior1900]

it would be helpful if they had an index where they listed the companies and then their products that are suspect - this is kind of a backward way to find the offenders and definitely labor intensive

[kgold in reply to Boscoejean]

There us a search icon at the upper right. I tried a couple of supplement names I use and came up with nothing.

[MBAnderson]

Good find. Also be aware the company heavily advertising Balance of Nature, Fruits and Veggies is a rip off as per Consumer Lab.

[Boscoejean in reply to MBAnderson]

my immediate thought was just how many fruits and vegetables could a person fit into those tiny capsules - it defies logic hahaha

[gaga1958]

can you open this below? my functional dr suggested i order from this site. i can get a disct through him also. he says he does not make any money off my purchases. read fullscript's quality assurance. I check this site and then I compare to amazon to see if it's cheaper there but at least i know it is one that's on fullscript.

i get many supplements from

us.fullscript.com

fullscript.com/blog/fullscr...

[Boscoejean in reply to gaga1958]

full script carries a wide variety of items - I am quite sure they are not all made by the same company

[gaga1958 in reply to Boscoejean]

exactly, that's why you can check fullscripts and compare to amazon. the point was their quality assurance.

[pdpatient]

Here's a good resource regarding the subject :

ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/W...

[BoomMate112055]

Doesn’t surprise me considering the lack of regulation on these products…lead in everyone of the first 100 listed, and let’s not kid ourselves, curing our diseases is not profitable.

[crewmanwhite]

This is one of the reasons I always advise PwP to be guided by a qualified and experienced Naturopath who does not participate in any multi-level marketing scheme.

Most of us belong to regulatory bodies who investigate supplement companies and have analyses of supplements.

While we all make mistakes from time to time, trained naturopaths are very wary of recommending supplements that they have not investigated.

Another reason for getting qualified advice is that many supplements hyped online are either unnecessary, useless, contaminated or contraindicated for PwP.

[Reetpetitio in reply to crewmanwhite]

Hi John, I'd llove to hear which supplements hyped online are contraindicated for PwP? Thanks

[SAGoodman]

Wow that's unbelievable! Great digging and researching!! I'm going to check the list, probably with disappointment 😞

[pinkflamingo80]

For your information, I subscribe to Consumer Lab. They review supplements and post ingredients, etc. And give a top pick for those that are safe and those that are not. I always check with them before buying a supplement, That way I can avoid what you brought up. Check it out. I think you will be pleased to find a trustworthy source,

[PDWarrior1900 in reply to pinkflamingo80]

i hate to break this to you ... but consumer lab "ain't" a "trustworthy source"

I did a thorough search about them 6-8 months ago as a result of another post here.

1. Consumer "Lab" does NOT do it's own lab testing! They outsource their work to questionable 3rd party lab -- both usa and foreign ones -- who are not themselves monitored

anh-usa.org/what-you-need-t...

2, Their Better Business Bureau (BBB) rating is a lousy ... B-

bbb.org/us/ny/white-plains/...

3, only 4 out of 5 stars from 26 anonymous reviews (and ya gotta figure at least half of them are from "ghost" replies from the company itself). Even at face value ... that's 20% of people saying "NO WAY!" to a company that SELLS MEMBERSHIPS (yes, they are a FOR PROFIT company).

trustpilot.com/review/www.c...

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As always, "Buyer Beware!"

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p.s. you can install a free Chrome app called: FakeSpot

It's "OK" (not great) -- and another useful tool to make your vitamin decisions.

[pinkflamingo80]

thank you

[PDWarrior1900 in reply to pinkflamingo80]

Welcome!

After 2 years of spending thousands of hours online ...

I've adopted the President Reagan adage:

"Trust. But, verify."

[dkdc]

Consumerlab.com

[Nguflh58]

Consumerlabs.com evaluates supplements mostly. Its costs to get the data but it is worth it.

[PDWarrior1900 in reply to Nguflh58]

you missed my detailed post -- with links -- about consumerlab

i'll summarize it fast:

1. They have a B- rating on the Better Business Bureau

2. They do NOT do the testing themselves! They outsource their testing to labs in the US and overseas which are NOT regulated or inspected

3. They are a "FOR PROFIT membership website" ... NOT ... a "true consumer-focused source of reliable information"

4. Reviews from their own membership give it only a '4' star (out of '5') rating -- and THAT is suspicious given only that there were only 26 reviews (so you gotta figure HALF of '5' star reviews are "ghosts" from the company itself.

BOTTOM LINE: BUYER BEWARE!

[Reetpetitio]

I recommend British Supplements (NOT available on Amazon, and not 'British Vitamins' - they are spawning a lot of scam lookalike sites). The owner is pretty eccentric but highly focused on providing clean, high quality supplements with zero fillers or 'flow' agents which large manufacturers all need for their machiners (magnesium stearate etc). He says he researches and then formulates capsules according to effective dosing, and buys fresh rather than from stock sitting in warehouses for years, and tests his supplements. So - this is the best I've found. He is about to start delivering to the USA (he is based in Northern Ireland).

There are some very powerful reviews on there for Macuna and PD (and likely some others too). Going there now to get the link I see that they offer it in two different potencies - I'd only seen the stronger one before which had put me off (undiagnosed early PD here).

british-supplements.net/