Don't Waste Your Money

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Don't Waste Your Money

- Roger Mason

No matter how many times we publish an article exposing the scams and frauds in this industry, readers keep writing in asking questions about the very same supplements we've exposed! So, here we go again..

Coral calcium is just a very, very overpriced form of calcium carbonate. You can buy a variety of good calcium supplements in any drug store inexpensively including calcium citrate. No, there aren't any significant amount of other minerals in here at all; just meaningless, barely detectable amounts. Take Total Minerals and get the minerals you need.

Colloidal minerals fortunately have had its day. There are almost no biologically significant amounts of minerals in here at all. Colloidal minerals were a bad joke from the beginning. The main promoter of this made a fool out of himself, but a very rich fool nevertheless. Colloidal silver is very effective externally for wounds and infections, but useless internally. You cannot find one single published study showing the value of taking silver in any form internally. Lycopene has become accepted by the supplement industry although it is useless. Now the claims get ever more extravagant although all the "studies" are just paid ads in medical journals. Serum blood tests in tens of thousands of real men prove that lycopene has nothing at all to do with prostate health. No one else in the world is telling you that lycopene is useless folks and all the "studies" are in my files.

PC-SPES has been taken of the market by the FDA, but has been replaced by such items as "PC-PLUS". Your author is the only one in the world who exposed this toxic fraud years before the government took action. If you want to grow breasts, toxify your body and die of prostate cancer be sure to take lots of this. Noni juice is still selling after all these years sorry to say. There are no valid studies at all on noni, yet it is touted as a cure-all. Noni is nonsense.

Breast enhancers are all useless. Women who believe they can take a pill or rub a face cream on their breasts to make them grow are to be pitied. And there are millions of American women who need your pity unfortunately.

Men are equally stupid when it comes to male organ enhancers. It isn't worth wasting the space in this column to discuss something this asinine.

Sexual performance enhancers apply to both men and women and are equally without any value whatsoever. GOOD HEALTH is the main predictor of sexual performance. The hormones DHEA and testosterone should be measured in both men and women if there is a problem in this area. Always remember that sex is 90% psychology but only 10% biology. You can't buy psychology in a bottle though.

Colostrum from mother's milk is another invention of the dairy industry trying to make yet another buck off milk and milk products. Colostrum is for newborn calves and not for people. Fortunately this never went over too well.

Homeopathic "remedies" are just expensive water. There is chemically nothing in a homeopathic "remedy" but water. If you want to pay $10 or $20 for a bottle of water please go right ahead. Anyone who believes in homeopathy has a lot of other psychological issues to deal with. Saw palmetto is useless. Let's say that again... SAW PALMETTO IS USELESS. That includes Pygeum, nettles, pumpkin seeds, amino acids and other silly prostate remedies. There is only 1 part in 3,000 of the active ingredient beta-sitosterol in saw palmetto berries. Take 300 mg or more of actual beta-sitosterol complex for prostate and cholesterol conditions.

Yam cream and wild yam cream are junk, and fortunately almost no one is selling this anymore. If you want to use real natural progesterone cream find a reliable brand under $20 for a two ounce jar that contains 800-1,000 mg of real progesterone clearly stated on the label in plain English. Yes, there is a use for men as well.

Maca root is finally disappearing from the market place. This is a fibrous turnip fed to livestock in South America because even poor peasants won't eat the stuff. To call it "Peruvian Gingseng" should be grounds for a substantial prison sentence. Tens of millions of dollars worth of turnip powder were sold to suckers over the past few years.

Deer antler velvet. You don't really believe deer antler velvet has any beneficial effects do you? Good, then when won't waste any more space discussing something this ridiculous. Splenda® is an artificial sweetener that "is made from sugar and tastes like sugar". It is also known as "sucralose" and pushed by the Atkins crowd. What you're not told is that this is a toxic, halogenated (bromine, chlorine, etc.) compound that is hundreds of times sweeter than sugar and hundreds of time more dangerous. You are literally better off eating white sugar, brown sugar, honey, molasses, maple syrup, corn syrup or other natural sugars than this synthetic chemical abomination. Never eat artificial sweeteners of any kind.

Spirulina and chorella are fresh water algaes that have been promoted as cure-ails for decades. You can't find a single published clinical study on their value however. Chemical analysis does not show anything of biological significance in the amounts found in them. Yet, year after year, decade after decade new suckers come forth to waste their money on these two promotions. Canola oil is not a healthy food at all, but rather a toxic genetically altered plant that should be restricted to manufacturing use, and not human consumption. Didn't you realize there is no "canola" plant? It is the rapeseed plant from Canada. This is heavily promoted in the so-called health food industry. Do not buy canola oil or any products that contain conola oil. Nature never intended humans or animals to eat rapeseed.

MGN-3 and AHCC are touted not just as cure-alls, but as outright cures for cancer. There are no such things as "MGN-3" or "AHCC". The "studies" are either paid ads in medical journals using the brand name, rather than a generic, product or meaningless funded, in-house "studies". These are just very overpriced and over promoted rice bran and mushroom extracts.

NO GROWTH HORMONE PRODUCTS WORK. NONE OF THEM! If you want to raise your growth hormone you must inject $4,000 a year worth of prescription rhGH into your body. No matter how often that is repeated, people keep writing in and asking, "what about this one?" NONE OF THEM WORK. PERIOD. There isn't one OTC growth hormone secretagogue on the face of the earth that has any value at all. You can take a gram of L-glutamine in the AM and another gram in the PM to temporarily spike your GH levels, but that's all. Yes, the advertising here is very persuasive, but NONE of them have any effect whatsoever. Do not buy growth hormone supplements of any kind. If you have $4,000, and are willing to inject prescription rhGH 3 days a week you will get benefits, but no more benefits than from inexpensive DHEA, testosterone, melatonin or thyroid hormones. High price has nothing to do with effectiveness and GH is not a wonder drug or any kind of fountain of youth. Your author uses a clinical secretagogue "hexarelin" with transdermal DMSO, but this is not legal in any country.

Tribulus terrestis and other testosterone enhancers. There are two ways to raise testosterone, but this should only be done if you can prove by blood or saliva analysis that your level is low. 1) Use a 3% (women can use a 1% or less) transdermal cream or gel of natural testosterone from a compounding pharmacy, or 2) take 50 mg of androstenedione or androstenediol. If you have normal testosterone and take either of the above you will end up with high estrogen levels which cause prostate and other cancers.

Chondroitin is completely useless for your arthritis as it cannot be absorbed by your intestines. It doesn't matter how many millions of dollars of this stuff are sold every year, or which giant vitamin corporation is pushing it. Chondroitin is useless and the "studies" are paid ads. The real generic studies have shown it has no effect. The same goes for ginger extract and CMO (cetyl myristoleate). MSM (methyl sulfonyl methane) has had years now to come up with some independent, unfunded, generic, objective clinical studies and has failed to do so. There is no reason to believe this has any value when taken internally and certainly when used externally as a cream. This sounded promising but just hasn't panned out.

Save your money and just buy what is proven scientifically to work.