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Supplements Exposed: The Truth They Don't Want You to Know About Vitamins, Minerals, and Their Effects on Your Health Paperback – October 1, 2009

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What if just about everything you thought you knew about supplements and health turned out to be… absolutely wrong? Nutrition expert Dr. Brian Clement, director of the world-famous Hippocrates Health Institute, explores the various myths that have made supplements a "buyer beware" industry. Supplements Exposed strips away layers of deception to reveal the truth about what millions of supplement users each year have taken for granted. For the first time, you will learn how: Nearly all supplements sold in the United States and the world are synthetics created in pharmaceutical industry labs. As a result, they can be toxic to your health. There are distinct differences between natural (plant-derived) supplements and synthetic (chemically-derived) supplements and how they each impact your health. Nearly all medical science studies of nutrients and human health have used synthetics rather than natural nutrients, which throws the accuracy of all negative laboratory results into serious doubt. This provocative book guides you through the minefield of choices you face every time you buy vitamins and minerals. It shows you how to decipher product labels that are otherwise deceptive, how to choose naturally occurring (plant-derived) supplements, why recommended daily allowances spread confusion, and much more.
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Brian R. Clement, PhD, NMD, LNC, is codirector of the Hippocrates Health Institute in West Palm Beach, Florida. Dr. Clement, who has graduate degrees in both nutritional science and naturopathic medicine, has spent three decades researching and practicing nutrition. He has traveled to more than 40 countries conducting lectures, seminars, and educational programs on nutrition and health. He has been commissioned by government-supported organizations to organize and direct health programs in Greece, India, Ireland, Switzerland, and Denmark. The author of six previous books, he and his wife live in West Palm Beach, Florida.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Weiser; First Edition (October 1, 2009)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1601630905
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1601630902
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.4 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.2 x 0.6 x 8.1 inches
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Anthony
5.0 out of 5 stars Eye Opening Information, Exellent Read
Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2012
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I have only read a few chapters and that's enough to open my eyes to the serious deception involved with the vitamin industry. I'm also starting to research this topic on my own and what I am finding solidifies the content in this book. If you take supplements that are purchased from local food markets, health food stores and even whole food stores, most likely you are getting synthetic nutrients that do nothing for your health and may even be toxic to you according to some studies. If you want true, healthy nutrients in the forms of vitamins and minerals and the like that nature intended to be pure and potent, this book has eye opening information that you should invest in to understand the truth behind a $22 billion dollar a year industry.
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Mrs Emm
5.0 out of 5 stars Great information 👍👍
Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2023
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This book arrived in great condition!!!!!
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Sondry Behn
4.0 out of 5 stars How to tell What's Really in Your Supplements or Not
Reviewed in the United States on September 3, 2016
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If you take vitamins, minerals, and supplements you need to read this book. You will learn how to tell if you are getting the real thing or not . You will go what to look for . We all need to make sure we are getting what we paid for.
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VegLake
5.0 out of 5 stars So much I didn't know
Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2013
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Excellent book on the history of supplements and on explaining the difference between synthetic (sadly a vast majority on the market) and naturally occurring supplements. I never really gave any thought to how supplements came to be so this book is extremely educational. The description of how synthetic vitamins came to be, how they're made, the additional material used to make them, is so eye opening as well. It's also an easy read and doesn't get too technical or 'sciencey'. :-) Nice job!

Another reviewer said there were no NOS vitamins suggested and are hard to find. Google "metaorganics"--a reasonably priced line of supplements that are certified NOS.
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Erol Lale
5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommend it. After listening many of his lecture on ...
Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2017
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Very well written book, truly an eye opener. Highly recommend it. After listening many of his lecture on the YouTube, I wouldn't expect anything less from Brian Clement. He seems to be a man of integrity and delivers in this book as expected. Always look what is behind the curtains. He is definitely not afraid of unveiling the truth no matter how ugly it may be, in contrast to others who may just ignore the facts or just remain superficial.
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3.0 out of 5 stars awareness that there is a ton of bad stuff added in because it is allowed
Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2015
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This has pros and cons.

Pros,
awareness that there is a ton of bad stuff added in because it is allowed, technically legal ect...
(vitamin e vs real whole-food plant form is dangerous and does increase all-cause mortality) ect..
and it is astounding how these things are still in our food, polluting children's entire system's and will be passed to further generations because of the lipophilic/magnifying properties.

Pro
author researches, conducts research, is committed, appears to live how he preaches.

Con
Paranoid inducing?
Just eat whole-food-plant based-diet, get your b-12, d3 if in the appropriate latitudes, potentially vegan-DHA/EPA (but $ and worth-it vs. flax?)

One can read about the best diet/lifestyle approaches all they want but if there is not initiative than it will not be beneficial and inspiring for others. (contagious)

Con
could lead one to
a. spend to much $
b. believe in a false-hope that we can thrive under b12 homocysteinemia (chlorination of water kills bacteria)
C. fails to consider the concept of hormesis (benefit from mild stressors)
d. hypocaloric/muscle wasting as a result

*much prefer the optimistic/simplistic views of Dr. Mcdouggal, Dr. Gregors, but "Dr"/supposedly Brain Clement is a good start for someone assuming they research and implement his approaches slowly/caustiously
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5.0 out of 5 stars Eye Opening!
Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2019
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This is a good book and worth reading if you take supplements. It is a look "behind the curtain" on the manufacturing of various "healthy" products. Good to know. Author is highly regarded in the holistic health industry, so it is a good read.
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Harmony
4.0 out of 5 stars only vitamins they support though is food based types
Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2009
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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.
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Monique Hall
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
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Charles Simon
5.0 out of 5 stars Read this and be shocked...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 3, 2012
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This book changed my view on synthetic supplements forever.

My own doubts began when I was recommended to add more Vitamin C to my diet to give me more energy.

A visit to the local chemist and I was £20 poorer and had become the owner of a large jar of Ascorbic Acid tablets.

How can an acid be a vitamin ??

Well it can't, because vitamins are not simple things. They are a complex cluster of many different substances each relying upon the other to generate the effect for which that particular vitamin is designed.

Ascorbic Acid is one part of Vitamin C.

But in the eyes of drug companies, Ascorbic Acid IS vitamin C.

And that is why after paying £20 and taking the tablets for a week, nothing happened to me, neither good nor bad.
Because Ascorbic Acid is not vitamin C, only a neutral compound.

Apparently all the ascorbic acid in the world is now made in three gigantic factories in China, which supply all western drug companies, who then re-package under their own expensive labels.

This is a parable for all vitamin supplements according to the book - 95% of all synthetic supplements are simply useless.
Or worse, they harm you.

Read this book and make your own mind up. Judge for yourself whether the whole business is another multinational scam.

The information is there and the author has not been sued by the industry for false reporting, so make up your mind !
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David
4.0 out of 5 stars Let food be thy medicine
Reviewed in Australia on August 21, 2014
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Now I only use whole food & super foods. Ive studied nutrition 20 years ago. Now this book challenged my belief. However its pretty much on the money. Speaking of which how many thousands of dollars I wasted on supplements not made from whole foods. A must read.
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G. Best
4.0 out of 5 stars A little supplemental insight
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 15, 2012
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Opening with essays on four common misconceptions (all of which I had held), Dr Clement then discusses the parts the commercially best-known supplements vitamins/minerals play in our metabolism. The book then winds down with chapters on Recommended Daily Allowances, oil fallacies, scams, direct marketing and thoughts on the law, followed by Appendices.

I am glad to have read this book.

And it is saving me money - as I no longer routinely chug my multivitamin tablet with added minerals and a fish-oil capsule with every breakfast.

As each bottle emptied, I replaced it with one by another company, so as to change the mix and not build tolerance. It seems I had been fooling myself. Apparently most global companies source their ingredients from the same manufacturers (most affordable vitamin C apparently coming from one factory in China).

But it doesn't resolve the man-in-the-streets' perplexity at being told one minute Vitamin E is essential for your heart so supplement, then next that it is a killer; that Vitamin A is a life-saver then, after being told Beta-Carotene is the "same thing", that Beta-Carotene supplementation is at best ineffective and at worst, toxic; being taught that Vitamin C is just ascorbic acid, being advised (e.g. Linus Pauling) to supplement generously, then being told it will rot your teeth and guts; at present it is Vitamin D being touted as the next cure-all - until it is inevitably driven off its perch (possibly by Vitamin K?).

This book gives useful insights into supplementation and how much rubbish is broadcast in order to make a sale. It does not supply the guidance and deeper answers which I personally was looking for.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Revealing! A MUST read to understand how we are ...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 8, 2015
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Revealing! A MUST read to understand how we are being ripped off and our health is being damaged by synthetic supplements even if sold as "natural".
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