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On every “health” and “nutritional” product, learn to read the label and ask the questions:

• Where are the plants grown?
• Are they tested for irradiation?
• If so, what method is used for testing?
• Is each plant tested for heavy metals and chemical contamination?
• If so, what method is used for testing?
• Is each plant tested for pesticides?
• If so, what method is used for testing?
• What species is used?
• What method is used for determining the species of plants?

(There are many species of every plant and herb. Each species has vastly different nutrient content, depending on where and how they are grown.)

• What does the term “natural flavors” mean?

(Most juice products have this on their labels – the new name for MSG – Monosodium Glutamate – a known brain neurotoxin that kills brain cells.)

• How is the product preserved?
• Is it pasteurized?

(Destroys nutrient content) Does the product have toxic preservatives such as sodium benzoate, sorbic acid, or potassium sorbate?

• If it is a tablet – how is it hardened and held together?

(Answer: glues, binders, heat and pressure which destroys nutrients)

• If it is a capsule – Is it 100% vegetable fiber?

Rather than gelatin made from animal hooves)

• Are any ingredients synthetic?

(Studies show synthetic vitamins degrade cells and shorten the user’s lifespan.)

• Are any ingredients fractioned out of plants and herbs?

(Using harsh chemicals – Labels should list real plants and herbs, not isolated vitamins and minerals, such as “ascorbic acid” for real vitamin C.)

Any distributor of a nutritional product should be able to answer these questions.

“Excipients” in Vitamin Supplements

The International Pharmaceutical Council of the Americas states that “Excipients are substances other than the pharmacologically active ingredients which are included in the manufacturing process or are contained in a finished product. In many products, excipients make up the bulk of the total dosage form.”

Czap, AL, The Townsend Letter For Doctors and Patients, July 1999, Vol.192; pg.117-119

“Additives in supplements cause allergic reactions, impede absorption, and have undesirable physiological effects. In many cases, an ingredient carries a negative connotation, so the manufacturer uses instead, an euphemistically derived alternative (such as “glaze” or “natural vegetable coating” for shellac)

Principal Excipient Functions

Binders Disintegrants Fillers Lubricants Flow Enhancers Compression Aids Colors

Sweeteners Preservatives Suspending/dispensing agents Film formers Coatings and Glaze (Shellac) Flavors Printing Inks

Most Commonly Used Excipients

Magnesium Stearate Stearic Acid Sodium Benzoate Potassium Sorbate Flavors or Natural Flavors Silicon Dioxide Titanium Dioxide Colors Lactose Cellulose Gelatin

Sodium Glycolate Talc Sucrose Calcium Stearate Palmitate Hydroxy Propyl Methylcellulose Ethylcellulose Glaze Shellac Starch

Magnesium Stearate (aka Stearic Acid): Poisonous Flowing Agents

Over 90% of the vitamin/mineral products consumed today contains magnesium stearate, also known as Stearic Acid.

“Stearic Acid inhibits T-cell dependent immune responses. Plasma membrane integrity is significantly impaired, leading to a loss of membrane potential and ultimately cell function and viability.”

Tebbey PW, Buttke TM, “Molecular Basis For The Immunosuppressive Action of Stearic Acid on T cells” (Immunology, 1990 Jul; 379-86)

“When cells were exposed to stearic acids and palmitic acids, there was a dramatic loss of cell viability after 24 hours. Cell death was induced by stearic and palmitic acid.”

PMID: 12562519 (PubMed) Ulloth, JE, Casiano CA, De Leon M. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, East Carolina University School of Medicine.

“T-helper cells become the target of stearic acid.”

PMID: 6333387 (PubMed)

“Stearic Acid, Magnesium Stearate, Calcium Stearate, Palmitate, and Hydrogenated Vegetable Oils are lubricants which enable manufacturing equipment to run more efficiently but inhibit eventual dissolution of the nutrient. Stearic acid may prevent absorption by individuals with compromised digestive systems. Magnesium stearate and stearic acid also present the problem that delivery of the active ingredient may be considerably further down the intestinal tract than the site originally intended. This may result in the nutrient being delivered away from its optimal absorption site. Not only can this impede absorption, in some cases it might be harmful to the liver.”

Czap, AL. Townsend Letter For Doctors and Patients, July 1999, Vol.192; Pg. 117-119.

“The addition of palmitate or stearate to cultured cells led to activation of a death program with a morphology resembling that of apoptosis. Palmitates and stearates caused cardiac and other types of cells to undergo programmed cell death.”

Sparagna, GC, Hickson-Bick, DL, Department of Pathology and Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston. American Journal of Medical Science, Jul 1999; pg. 15-21.

“Signs and Symptoms of Magnesium Stearate Poisoning: Ingestion – Vomiting, Rinse mouth and rest.”

Pesticides Poisoning Database, www.pesticiceinfo.org.

“Magnesium Stearate – Stearic Acid Material Safety Data Sheet: Toxicity by ingestion – Give several glasses of water to drink to dilute, get medical advice. Skin Contact – Wash exposed area with soap and water, get medical advice.”

Mallinckrodt Chemicals, www.bulkpharm.mallinckrodt.com.

Consumers often take handfuls of capsules to get nutrients from supplements containing magnesium stearate or stearic acid and instead, get a powerful immuno suppressive treatment! Most retailers are not aware of this threat and mistakenly claim 100% purity for their products. Ask suppliers to provide a written statement that guarantees their supplements are free of stearates. In fact, ask for full label disclosure listing every compound used to produce each product, and eliminate those supplements that have potentially harmful additives.

Sodium Benzoate: A Poisonous Preservative

Sodium Benzoate and Potassium Sorbate are used as preservatives in most of the liquid vitamin products sold in health food stores or by multi-level-marketing distributors. Usually these juice products have claims that they are the secret of peoples in a far away place who live to be 150 years old! These people did not live to be 150 drinking juices that have sodium benzoate in them!

What does a preservative do? It kills everything alive in the product so it can sit on a shelf in a warehouse or store for weeks or months without spoiling. If the preservative kills everything alive in the product, what do you think it does in your body?

First, a little history. Harvey W. Wiley, M.D., taught at Harvard in 1873, and Purdue after that. Dr. Wiley accepted the position of Chief Chemist in the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 1882. His main job was to assist Congress in their earliest questions regarding the safety of chemical preservatives in foods. He became known as the “Father of the Pure Food and Drug Act” when it became law in 1906. That act led to the creation of today’s Food and Drug Administration. Dr. Wiley also oversaw the laboratories of Good Housekeeping Magazine where he established the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval.

The important issues of the day were the use of bleached flour, saccharin and benzoate of soda (now known as sodium benzoate). In a letter addressed to President Coolidge he wrote regarding sodium benzoate: “The time has fully come for this monstrosity to disappear.”

The Food and Drug Act had already been watered down by politicians afraid to upset big business enterprises using sodium benzoate as a preservative. Dr. Wiley went on to write to the President: “It is the crowning ambition of my career, before I die, to see these illegal restrictions, which now make a prisoner of the Food Law, removed, and the Law restored to the functional activity which Congress prescribed.”

Dr. Wiley made it clear in his book, A History Of Crime Against The Food Law(1929), that sodium benzoate was a food additive that was indeed harmful to health. Sodium benzoate should have been outlawed as a preservative at that time, but it is still used today. Why? Because vigorous protests from those engaged in adulterating foods were made to the Secretary of Agriculture, and sodium benzoate was allowed to continue to be used as a preservative.

Today, the FDA has a list known as GRAS: Generally Recognized As Safe. The FDA allows the addition of hundreds of chemicals to our food. Since the whole purpose of adding a preservative to a food is to make it unfit for insects or mold to eat, what makes us believe it is okay for humans to eat it?

Especially the one preservative, sodium benzoate, which Dr. Wiley worked so hard to get outlawed.

After Dr. Wiley failed to get Congress to act. He finally gave a simple solution to the sodium benzoate problem: Don’t buy and use any food containing sodium benzoate. He suggested that we just read the label, and if it is a chemical, and you can’t pronounce it, do not buy it and eat it. He expected that this voting with our dollars would get additive-laden foods off the shelves of stores. But that has not happened, and now we have vitamin products being touted for your health that contain this poisonous chemical!

The Material Safety Data Sheet on sodium benzoate states:

Ingestion: If swallowed, call a physician immediately;
Induce vomiting.
Give oxygen or artificial respiration as needed.

The Chemical Analysis Data Sheet on sodium benzoate states:

“Store away from food and beverages.”

Yet today it is not kept away from food and beverages, it is found in most of them, including liquid vitamin supplements products that are supposed to “improve your health”. Take Dr. Wiley’s advice and read the labels before you and your family drink anything containing the poison of sodium benzoate.