So, you think your supplement brand is doing the job? What if I told you that your brand probably contains toxic contaminants which negate the very benefits that you believed would help you?
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For instance, you take supplements to rid your body of inflammation, but too many supplement brands contain harmful ingredients that create the very inflammation you are trying to expel from your body. Too many brands contain unsafe levels of heavy metals, they fail potency testing, their products are adulterated, the dose is inaccurately stated, or not all the ingredients are listed due to a loophole in reporting requirements. Studies have found:
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46% of Creatine gummies fail label claim.
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26 of 33 Berberine products on Amazon and Walmart.com don’t contain labeled amount of berberine.
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14 of 21 Astaxanthin products on Amazon contain lower than labeled amount.
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15 of 20 Bromelain supplements fail potency.
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Toxic elements are found in prenatal vitamins with lead at unacceptable levels in more than half of the products tested.
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Arsenic is also found in some products at unsafe levels.
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160 products were tested from 70 top-selling supplement brands. Nearly half of the protein powders tested had unsafe levels of heavy metals.
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7 of 8 CoQ10 supplements fail potency testing
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Prevalence of adulteration in dietary sport supplement products.
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Supplement products tested positive for anabolic agents or other prohibited substances.
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Supplement facts labels do not reflect the actual contents of the product.
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Amounts of caffeine actually present ranged from 59% to 176% of packaging claims.
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Misrepresenting ingredient contents on their labels.
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Adulteration of dietary supplements.
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Wide variety of undeclared active pharmaceutical ingredients.
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Some supplement labels inaccurately describe the dose of the supplement.
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Discrepancies between what’s on the label and what’s in the bottle.
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Some products contained more than 1 unapproved FDA ingredient.​​
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634 nutritional supplements that were purchased in 13 different countries showed that about 15% of the nonhormonal nutritional supplements were contaminated with anabolic-androgenic steroids (mainly prohormones).
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160 protein powder products were tested from the top 70 brands representing about 38% of the protein powder market. They were tested for a range of 258 different potential contaminants, including arsenic, mercury, and bisphenols. Of the products tested, 47% had higher levels of heavy metals than recommended under California Proposition 65 safety thresholds—with 21% of those testing more than twice over the Prop 65 threshold for lead.​