NOW Foods, one of our recommended supplement companies, recently tested 24 quercetin brands. Twenty out of the 24 brands tested were found to have less than 90 percent of the potency listed on the label; 14 of the 24 brands had less than 50 percent of the labeled potency. Two of the 24 brands advertised vegetarian capsules, but were found to contain gelatin. One product had no detectable quercetin. Read more.
Get Informed on Issues Related to Supplements
The Feds are Coming for Your Supplements!
Listen to Gretchen DuBeau, Executive and Legal Director of ANH-USA, talk to Dr. Ron Hoffman on his Intelligent Medicine podcast about the very real threats to your supplement access posed by Sen. Durbin’s (D-IL) proposed new “registration” system for supplements. Listen here.
Your Supplement Choices — Going, Going, Gone!
How a new proposal will replace the supplements you rely on with standardized, low-quality, one-size-fits all products. Action Alert! Imagine walking into your favorite store or doctor’s office to buy supplements. Instead of seeing a rich variety of products with various forms and dosages of vitamins and minerals, you see a few basic products, many of which do not fit your needs because the dosages are too low or the ingredients you need are not available. This is our future if we allow Senator Dick Durbin’s mandatory product registration bill to become law. Read more.
Why Does Science Still Ignore Vitamin C?
For more than 20 years, Dr. Harri Hemilä, biochemist, physician and epidemiologist, has been analyzing research conducted with vitamin C. In 2017, ORTHO magazine had an interview with him. [1] At that time, the interest in vitamin C was mainly about the common cold. Now it also concerns another virus infection, Covid-19. Has anything changed since then? The near-total lack of interest within medical science for vitamin C still exists. And apparently, medical professors don’t give a damn about the vitamin, as if it were a career killer. Read more.
Glutathione D-Day: June 8
The FDA is once again threatening personalized medicines, this time glutathione, a crucial antioxidant. Action Alert! Your ability to use personalized glutathione, an antioxidant that is essential to life, is in jeopardy. An FDA committee that has already voted to ban many natural medicines is meeting soon (June 8th) to decide whether compounding pharmacies can continue to make glutathione in any form, including IVs, inhaled forms, suppositories, and nasal sprays. Glutathione helps patients with a wide variety of ailments, including liver disease, cancer, stroke, and autism. Read more.
NPA Asks Industry to Sustain Opposition to Durbin-Braun FDA Mandatory Product Labeling Bill
The Natural Products Association (NPA) renewed its call for health and wellness advocates to lobby Congress to reject the Durbin-Braun proposal to require premarket approval for dietary supplements and weaken critical provisions of the Bioterrorism Act. Read more.
Durbin: Don’t Take Our Sunshine Away!
The “sunny” days of Americans being able to regenerate health with vitamin D, the sunshine vitamin, could be over. Action Alert! Last week, we detailed what we believe to be Sen. Durbin’s end game with regard to his new mandatory product listing bill for dietary supplements: the imposition of European-style restrictions on high-dose vitamins and minerals. For those who care about natural health, one of the most important threats is to high-dose vitamin D. Read more.
The Restoration of Vitamin C Synthesis in Humans
The full importance of vitamin C in reaching and maintaining optimal health remains largely unappreciated by most traditional health care practitioners. Certainly, it is widely appreciated that vitamin C is required to sustain life, and that its severe deficiency in the body reliably results in the development of scurvy, with death following shortly thereafter in the absence of new vitamin C intake. However, it is not widely appreciated that optimal human metabolism requires the assimilation of new multigram (macronutrient) quantities of vitamin C on a daily basis, not just 50 to 100 milligram (micronutrient) quantities. Read more.
Good News for NAC
An update from the FDA shows our advocacy to defend access to a critical antioxidant supplement is working. Action Alert! The FDA recently released a guidance on the agency’s policy towards N-acetyl-L-cysteine (NAC), a critical antioxidant supplement. It reiterates some of the points we covered in an earlier update on NAC, with a key addition: barring any issues that arise during a safety review currently being conducted, the agency is “likely to propose a rule providing that NAC is not excluded from the definition of dietary supplement.” We may be on the cusp of a huge victory in protecting access to affordable NAC supplements. Read more.
New Bill Threatens Jail Time for Supplement Companies
Senator Dick Durbin’s (D-IL) bill that threatens tens of thousands of products has officially been introduced. We need all hands on deck to oppose it. Action Alert! Sen. Dick Durbin has launched his supplement attack by introducing his “Dietary Supplement Listing Act of 2022” with Senator Mike Braun (R-IN). This bill threatens your ability to access the supplements you rely on to stay healthy. We need to send a strong message to Congress that this is bad for consumers, bad for health, and bad for the economy. Read more.
