Are some vitamins just as bad as prescription pills?

I consider myself a healthy person, I know I can be healthier and I am working on it. But I used to take many vitamins a day to substitute for not eating healthy. After doing a ton of research and really understanding how important it is to get my vitamins and minerals through fruits and vegetables I stopped taking so many. It took a couple months to really feel the effects but it worked. And like many other people, when I am running late or if I get sick I will still take vitamins as a supplement. But BEWARE of what brand you take, you may just be getting a filler with absolutely no vitamins or minerals in them. OR you will have dangerous ingredients added to the vitamin you’re taking.

Some of the most common dangerous ingredients are magnesium stearate, silicon dioxide, titanium dioxide, starch, microcrystalline cellulose, stearic acid, simethicone, vegetable gum, talc, and propylene glycol (vegetable glycerin), color, dyes, just to name a few. You will find these “other ingredients” at the bottom of the supplement panel on the back of your supplement bottle, sometimes listed as “inactive ingredients”.

These “other ingredients” are generally NOT in the product to benefit your health and have little or no nutritive value. They are used to inexpensively bind, fill, and lubricate, capsules and tablets to expedite processing. I will explain a few of these ingredients.

Dyes used for food are chemically classified as azo, xanthene, triphenylmethane, and indigoid dyes. Although certifiable color additives have been called coal-tar colors because of their traditional origins, today they are synthesized mainly from raw materials obtained from petroleum. Lake dyes for food use are made with aluminum cation as the precipitant and aluminum hydroxide as the substratum

Aluminum

Aluminum is the most abundant metal in the earth’s crust and it is widely distributed. Used to make beverage cans, pots and pans, airplanes, siding and roofing, and foil. Powdered aluminum metal is often used in explosives and fireworks. Very reactive element and is never found as the free metal in nature. It is found combined with other elements, most commonly with oxygen, silicon, and fluorine.

Exposure to the levels of aluminum that are naturally present in food and water and the forms of aluminum that are present in dirt and aluminum pots and pans are not considered to be harmful.

Eating large amounts of processed food containing aluminum additives or frequently cooking acidic foods in aluminum pots may expose a person to higher levels of aluminum than a person who generally consumes unprocessed foods

Unprocessed foods like fresh fruits, vegetables, and meat contain very little aluminum. Aluminum compounds may be added during processing of foods, such as:

Flour
Baking powder
Coloring agents
Anticaking agents

An average adult in the United States eats about 7–9 mg of aluminum per day in their food

You may be exposed by breathing, eating, or drinking the substance, or by skin contact. However, it should be noted that aluminum is a very abundant and widely distributed element and will be found in most rocks, soils, waters, air, and foods. You will always have some exposure to low levels of aluminum from eating food, drinking water, and breathing air.

Aluminum is found in consumer products including:

Antacids
Astringents
Buffered aspirin
Food additives
Antiperspirants
Cosmetics

Remember, every one of these dyes contain Arsenic, Lead and Mercury among other toxic chemicals.

A Brief history

In 1856, William Henry Perkin discovered the first synthetic organic dye, called mauve. Discoveries of similar dyes soon followed and they quickly became used to color foods, drugs, and cosmetics. Because these dyes were first produced from by-products of coal processing, they were known as “coal-tar colors.”

By 1900, many foods, drugs, and cosmetics available in the U.S. were artificially colored

A careful assessment of the chemicals used for coloring foods at the time found many blatantly poisonous materials such as lead, arsenic, and mercury being added.

In the 1920s and 1930s, it became clear that the Food and Drugs Act of 1906 did not go far enough to protect the public health from misbranded, adulterated, and even toxic products including an eyelash dye that blinded some women

By 1931, there were 15 straight colors approved for use in food, including six of the seven in use today: FD&C Blue No. 1 (Brilliant Blue FCF), FD&C Blue No. 2 (Indigotine), FD&C Green No. 3 (Fast Green FCF), FD&C Red No. 3 (Erythrosine), FD&C Yellow No. 5 (Tartrazine), and FD&C Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow). Color additive lakes were in use by this time and were included in the provisions of the 1938 FD&C Act. Most products contain only a small amount of color additive, so it takes only a small quantity to potentially adulterate a large amount of product.

Some people who have kidney disease store a lot of aluminum in their bodies. The kidney disease causes less aluminum to be removed from the body in the urine. Sometimes, these people developed bone or brain diseases that doctors think were caused by the excess aluminum.

Brain and bone disease caused by high levels of aluminum in the body have been seen in children with kidney disease. Bone disease has also been seen in children taking some medicines containing aluminum. In these children, the bone damage is caused by aluminum in the stomach preventing the absorption of phosphate, a chemical compound required for healthy bones.

Very young animals appeared weaker and less active in their cages and some movements appeared less coordinated when their mothers were exposed to large amounts of aluminum during pregnancy and while nursing. In addition, aluminum also affected the animal’s memory. These effects are similar to those that have been seen in adults.

If you take certain vitamins made by GNC or Centrum (as well as hundreds of other companies), you are eating titanium dioxide. And this is an ingredient for which no long-term safety testing on humans has ever been conducted. In fact, according to the Canadian Center for Occupational Health and Safety, titanium dioxide may be a human carcinogen. As explained on the CCOHS website: (http://www.ccohs.ca/headlines/text186.html)

Titanium dioxide has recently been classified by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) as an IARC Group 2B carcinogen ”possibly carcinogen to humans”… This evidence showed that high concentrations of pigment-grade (powdered) and ultrafine titanium dioxide dust caused respiratory tract cancer in rats exposed by inhalation and intratracheal instillation*.

These chemicals are in our cosmetics and skin care as well. CosmeticsDatabase.com lists titanium dioxide as being linked to cancer, allergies, immunotoxicity and organ system toxicity, among other problems. (http://www.cosmeticsdatabase.com/ingredient….) Here’s a list of some of the many thousands of cosmetic products containing titanium dioxide: http://www.cosmeticsdatabase.com/browse.php?…
As for magnesium stearate, it is not a dietary source of the essential macromineral magnesium. Rather, it is a simple salt that is created when a magnesium ion bonds to stearic acid, a long-chain fatty acid. The resulting compound is an effective lubricant, making it ideal for mass supplement manufacturing since it prevents capsules and tablets from sticking to each other. Magnesium stearate is so effective in this regard, in fact, that it is found in an estimated 90 percent of all vitamin supplements Studies have shown that there are good reasons to avoid supplements that contain this. For example, one study published in the Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences found that drugs that were lubricated with magnesium stearate exhibited a decrease in dissolution rate compared to those lubricated with sodium stearyl fumarate, a water-based compound. (3) This result suggests that magnesium stearate could inhibit the nutrient absorption rate of dietary supplements. Another study published in Immunology found that stearic acid could suppress the activity of our natural killer cells, T cells, which could lead “to a loss of membrane potential and ultimately cell function and viability.”

So this ingredient can stop us from absorbing the important nutrients, vitamins and minerals that we are taking in, basically we are getting empty nutrients.

There are vitamin companies that even banned this ingredient, yet we still buy them. Why? Because we don’t know about it. I had a hair test done a few months back to check my levels (vitamins, minerals, heavy metals) and to my surprise I was imbalanced, and my titanium levels were off the charts, literally. I juice a lot so I wasn’t expecting to be as imbalanced as I was. Could it be since I was taking so many vitamins that had magnesium stearate that it stopped my body from absorbing all the vitamins? Probably.

I couldn’t figure it out until I did my own research about vitamins, this is why it is very important for us to be our own health detectives. We can’t really trust our own medical professionals because they are so quick to drown us with drugs, and yes, I know not all doctors are like this, but there are many pill pushers. And usually the pill pushers are also taking pills as well or push them because it makes them rich.

Keep in mind, when our bodies get off balanced with minerals and vitamins, we are slowly starting to kill ourselves. What I mean is, when we have too much of something or too less of something for a long period of time it will start to damage something in the body, which leads to something else getting damaged and so on, and since many doctors don’t know much about nutrition they mask it by prescribing pills and soon after that, cancer sets in. And to think this all could have been preventing by having a healthy and balanced nutritional life. It’s like eating a bunch of sugary foods, you will eventually get negative results if it is a good part of your diet. Sugar feeds cancer. Sure you are not going to drop dead after one serving but as time goes by it will start to hurt your body with or without any side effects until it’s something major. It’s the same with having too much or too little of something in your body, it will eventually hurt you. It’s common sense.

I have people tell me they don’t eat that much sugar, bad vitamins or whatever. Well then I challenge you to keep a diary of what you take in or put on your body for one month (even lotions and makeup, hair products, toothpaste), write down all the ingredients, including sugar. It all adds up! I didn’t believe it until I did the diary myself. Yes it is time consuming but to break what some doctors call the “family genes” or “heredity” cancer or sickness that you think runs in the family I would think it is worth it. Here is something to think about, if your family ate, exercised, and thought the same for generations and they keep getting cancer, a certain illness or disease, wouldn’t you think there is some kind of pattern going on? Do some research of how they ate, what they drank, if they exercised, did drugs, drank enough water, drank alcohol, did they have God in their life, etc… See what vitamins and minerals they lacked or had too much of, it might just save your life. But don’t take my word for it, be your own health detective.

So now the question is, are some (not all) vitamins just as harmful as prescription pills? My opinion, prescription pills can do a lot more harm to the body and mind. But over a period of time both can mess up the gut lining and microbiome, mess up the brain, they both have bad side effects that usually get worse with time. This is just another example of “dumbing down America,” since everyone won’t take prescription pills, why not mess up the supplement vitamins too. Whether the producers of these vitamins know it or not, it is all a part of the enemies plan. The enemy being Satan that is… Of course the evil wants to control the minds of the people so they become out of control, foggy thinkers, confused, paranoid, depressed, sick, and the list goes on. If you haven’t noticed, this world isn’t getting any better. We need to pay attention to our body, and avoid polluting it so when something bad happens we handle it properly with good confident decisions. Pray often, stay positive, read your bible and let God’s love be your drug.

James 5:15 King James Version (KJV)

^“And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.”