What's in your Supplements?

Typically sold in your local grocery stores,

 drugstores and health food stores.

1. Meets standards set for human consumption
2. Manufacturer does NOT have to guarantee that what’s on the label is what’s inside each tablet or capsule.
3. That means you might get too little or too much of one or more components
4.  FDA does not monitor the contents or purity of food grade supplements,
5. Allows the use of fillers and binders that offer no nutrition.   Some of these fillers are bad for you
    

Food Grade Supplements vary greatly in quality of nutrients, contaminants, and quality

1. Most of the nutrient levels provided are not in biologically active forms,
2. Are often poorly absorbed,
3. May pass through the gut undigested.

Food Grade Supplement Good Manufacturing Practices focus on safety only

Available by a licensed healthcare practitioner

1. Meets pharmaceutical or professional standards.
2. Must be in excess of 99% pure, with no binders, fillers, dyes or unknown substances.
3. Assurance through testing that these supplements are potent, pure and highly bioavailable

                Bioavailability means it is in a form that can be                             absorbed by your body, not just passed through like many food grade supplements.

         In order to have a therapeutic effect, nutrients must be absorbed into your bloodstream.

          Pharmaceutical Grade Good Manufacturing Practices focus on safety, AND potency, efficacy and purity 

                    Also the testing of the raw materials for safety, potency, efficacy, and purity.