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Garbage in 2010 -Roger Mason

Today let's look at the nutritional supplement garbage that is being sold this year (in no particular order). 90% of the natural health industry, unfortunately, is made up of whores, liars, thieves, criminals, charlatans, and psychopaths, to put it politely. These people actually INVENT supple-ments that have no value, and put out lots of stories and publicity behind them, so the public believes it. It's always about money of course. They make used car dealers look good.

RESVERATROL is the biggest scam going. Instead of feeding grape skins to pigs they are now being sold to people at high prices. There is no science at all behind this, but there is endless advertising. The claims get more outrageous every year. Worthless.

UBIQUINOL is junk. Real Japanese coenzyme Q10 (ubiquinone) costs about $800 a kilogram and you need at least 100 mg a day. Skin creams or toothpaste need at least 0.5% or more clearly stated on the label. People who sell you 10 mg or 30 mg CoQ10 capsules are criminals. Compan-ies that don't state the percent of CoQ10 are crooks. Ubiquinol is not CoQ10, is unstable, has no shelf life, and no reputable company will sell it. All those newsletter doctors are crooks.

CHONDROITIN is another massive scam. Chondroitin has no value, as it cannot be absorbed by the intestines. If a surgeon injects USP chondroitin into your aging joints it will have benefits, but not orally. No surgeons do this though.


POLICOSANOL is just octacosanol in new clothes, with a new name. It will not lower your cholesterol no matter how much you take. The "studies" are paid ads from Cuba. Please read my book Lower Cholesterol Without Drugs.

ACAI and GOJI BERRIES are more garbage. Just crap for fools sold by criminals.

GROWTH HORMONE SECRETAGOGUES don't work. Do you really think a $39.95 OTC pill is going to raise your GH? Chinese Jintropin ® or Hygertropin® are no longer available. Real GH costs about $3,600 a year and must be injected.There is no such thing as oral GH.

TRIBULUS TERRESTIS is still being sold to raise testosterone. You need transdermal or sublingual real presciption testosterone if your level is low. Please read my book Testosterone Is Your Friend. You can legally get real testosterone on the Internet cheaply.

SAW PALMETTO is still being sold for prostate health. The berries contain a mere 1 part in 3,000 of beta-sitosterol, so you'd have to eat about 3,000 capsules a day to get any value. This includes Pygeum, nettles, and pumpkin seed as well. Good luck! Beta Prostate® contains real beta-sitosterol with 11 minerals and vitamin D and is the most effective and best selling prostate supplement in the world. Over one million bottles a year.

CHELATION oral or injected is a scam. Try Heavy Metal Magnet™ for six months.

NONI JUICE just won't go away. Yes, people really are that stupid.

CHRYSIN  doesn’t lower estrogen levels or do anything else beneficial.



COLLOIDAL SILVER is still around as well. Colloidal silver does have EXTERNAL antiseptic properties, but is useless when taken internally. 

MSM is still being sold by the ton. Folks, this doesn't work and never did work and never will work. Please read our free article, Treating Bone & Joint Problems Naturally.

LYCOPENE  is useless as proven by published blood serum studies in tens of thousands of men. Anyone who sells you lycopene is a liar, a fool, or both. Read the articles in our library on lycopene. Another massive scam.


ORAL SOD is worthless and comes from melons!!! You would have to inject or use a nasal spray with read superoxide dismutase. Neither are available. Real SOD is stated in PIU.



MODIFIED CITRUS PECTIN is a real laugh. Regular old citrus pectin is very effective and inexpensive, as is apple pectin. You sure don't need to "modify" a soluble fruit pectin just to raise the price exponentially. More crooks.

HYALURONIC ACID
taken orally is broken down in the stomach. Useless. The topical creams don’t do anything but hydrate the skin. That’s why we don’t sell one.

SPIRULINA and CHORELLA are more laughs. These algaes have been around for three decades and people are still buying them. Not one single valid study in all this time.



COLLOIDAL MINERALS just won't die either. This is just clay extract without any minerals in it. All Your Minerals® has 20 elements in the amounts you need.

BEE PRODUCTS have been around since Abe Lincoln ran the country. If it comes from a bee don't buy it. Bee pollen, bee propolis, bee jelly, bee whatever... 

MACA ROOT is a barely edible turnip fed to livestock in South America. Useless. Selling it as "Peruvian ginseng" should result in a substantial prison sentence.

STEVIA is not a safe alternative to using sugar, honey, and other simple sugars. Using stevia
and other sugar substitutes cause the same damage as natural sugars. Just get over your sugar addiction and stop trying to cheat.

MUIRA PUAMA will not help your sex life or anything else.

POMEGRANATE and MANGOSTEEN products are just promotional junk.

CINNAMON overdoses for diabetes don’t work. Cinnamon is a great spice though.



WEIGHT LOSS PRODUCTS like hoodia cactus are all worthless.  None of them work or obesity would be cured. Billions of dollars every year wasted on this stuff. You lose weight by making better food choices; diet, exercise, and lifestyle will keep you slim and healthy.

NATTOKINASE has no value and no science behind it. Natto is a fine condiment, but Westerners do not like it. It is merely a fermented soy product.



7-KETO DHEA is another scam. If you prove your DHEA level is low just take regular, plain,
cheap, over-the-counter DHEA tablets. 



MALE SEXUAL ENHANCEMENT products. Any man who buys these needs psychiatric care. Do you really think you’ll regain your sexual potency by taking some $39.95 OTC pill? Good sex depends on GOOD HEALTH and good relationship.



FEMALE SEXUAL ENHANCEMENT products. See the above. Good health, good relationship, and good psychological and emotional balance are the keys here.  

CMO or cetyl myristoleate has no value for your arthritis. Why does something like this keep selling decade after decade? How stupid are people anyway? Read the article Treating Bone & Joint Problems Naturally.



HOMEOPATHIC remedies contain no actual ingredients whatsoever. That's a scientific fact, and readily admitted to by proponents of homeopathy. These delusional fools have had over 100 years to prove their case and have failed miserably. You buy little bottles of plain water at fancy prices. What a deal! 



VITAMIN C MEGADOSES will make your blood acidic and ruin your health. Take no more than 250 mg of vitamin C, which is 400% of what you need. Linus Pauling was a well meaning, but very misguided person. The road to Hell is paved with such good intentions. Overdoses of anything are harmful including oxygen, sun, food, water, fun, sex, or religion.



ARGININE is still popular after all these years. In the past 20 years there are no published studies showing any value whatsoever for taking arginine supplements. All the “studies” are
poor, heavily overdosed, injected rats.



TONGKAT ALI is another testosterone raising scam. Anyone who advocates this should be shot in the public square. Yes, people really are that stupid to buy things like this. Please read my book Testosterone Is Your Friend- A Book for Men and Women.



RED RICE YEAST is not the way to lower your cholesterol. Please read my book Lower Chol-esterol Without Drugs. DIET is far more important than supplements here. This has almost dis-appeared in 2010 fortunately.



WHEY PROTEIN is almost always full of indigestible lactose. Whey is a waste product from cheese manufacturing. Americans already eat TWICE the protein they need in the first place. A low protein diet is proven to promote health and longevity. High protein diets ruin your kidneys.



BILBERRY has no value at all for vision- or anything else for that matter.

MGN3 and AHCC are made up names for supplements that don’t work.



SUCRALOSE (aka Splenda®) should be banned for human or animal use. This is halogenated with chlorine and anything but a safe and proven alternative to regular sugars. It is not “made from sugar” at all, but it a synthetic and toxic chemical.



VITAMIN D OVERDOSES over 1,200 IU. The RDA is only 400 IU, we recommend
800 IU, and elderly sickly people could even push it to 1,200 IU. This is a fat soluble
hormone (it’s not a vitamin) that is stored in the body. High doses are toxic.



CANOLA OIL was never meant for human consumption and comes from rapeseed. There are no "canola" plants. This contains toxic erucic acid. Do not use canola oil.

There are only 20 proven permanent endogenous (in your body and/or your daily food) supple-ments recommended in my books. They include beta glucan, CoQ10, beta-sitosterol, lipoic acid, NAC, PS, ALC, vitamin D, vitamin E, beta carotene, a complete vitamin and mineral supple-ment, flax oil, acidophilus, FOS, quercetin, soy isoflavones, DIM, glutamine, and glucosamine.
If you are over the age of 40, you'd do well to take all of them. This is in addition to the hormones you would need personally. If you are under 40, there are only about 8 you should take. Please read the article Supplements for Younger People. We now offer a convenient pack of all eight supplements for those under 40. Also please read my tenth book The Supplements You Need.

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