Whats Happened to Natural Health Supplements?
All natural health supplements should come from sources natural to humans, right? After all, fish eat fish food, cats eat cat food, dogs eat dog food, cows eat grass and dung beetles eat dung.
Today’s supplement industry is trying to deceptively profit off of the word "natural." Almost all products labeled "all natural health supplements" are made from NON-human food sources.
Not necessarily. Don’t think that all herbal health products and supplements are safer than medicines just because they occur in nature or come from plants. Although herbal products and supplements are advertised as “natural,” they aren’t necessarily natural to the human body.
Today’s supplement industry is trying to deceptively profit off of the word “natural.” Almost all products labeled “all natural health supplements” are made from NON-human food sources. Here are three good examples: • Pycnogenol, an ingredient in many supplements, comes from pine bark. Pine bark is a lumber waste product. In nature, no creature eats it, not even bugs. So why should you? • Next there’s dunaliella salina. This is an algae pond scum that forms only on stagnant polluted waters. No mammal eats it. If they know better, shouldn’t we avoid it too? • Then there’s flaxseed oil. Flax was historically used for making cloth. In more modern times it’s better known as linseed oil and used in paints and as a furniture polish. Flaxseed is not traditionally a human food. It’s even considered inedible by the USDA.The list goes on and on. Theres coral calcium, grape seed extract and strange fruits like gac, gogi, noni, acai and mangosteen, not traditionally eaten by people. Now when was t
