Industrial Pesticide Present in Many Top Selling Supplements
Cupric sulfate is used as an herbicide, fungicide, and pesticide among many other things. It is also present in many best selling nutritional supplements, which oftentimes utilize harmful additives and synthetic ingredients that can be damaging to your health. Among these supplements happens to be the “#1 doctor recommended” multivitamin Centrum, which contains a great number of similarly-damaging substances.
Peer-reviewed research has identified a link between cupric sulfate and many negative conditions such as heavy metal toxicity, arsenic poisoning, DNA damage, and mercury poisoning. When taking this research into consideration, much of which has been available to both the general public and supplement industry for a number of years (some vital research on the subject actually goes as far back as 1991), it is truly shocking that any company would include this ingredient in any ‘health-promoting’ supplement formula.
Insecticide, Flame Retardant, Jet Fuel Chemicals in Top Selling Supplement Brands
Of course it is important to note that the manufacturer of Centrum, Wyeth, is actually a part of the drug giant Pfizer which has shown its blatant disregard for public health through charging an astronomical $115,200 per patient for an experimental cancer drug that is loaded with side effects.
Perhaps the most concerning fact about Centrum is the presence of many other health-endangering ingredients. It is important to remember that Centrum is not the only top selling multivitamin or general supplement to contain these ingredients, as they are rather prevalent among many mainstream (and even some ‘natural’ retailers) labels across the globe. Here are some of the ingredients contained in the top selling multivitamin Centrum, along with their adverse effects:
- BHT – A fat soluble compound used in jet fuels, rubber, petroleum products, electrical transformer oil, and embalming fluid. Research has linked BHT to lung cancer, bladder cancer, DNA damage, and gastric cancer.
- Boric Acid – A chemical oftentimes used as an antiseptic, insecticide, or flame retardant. Found to cause DNA damage.
- Synthetic Vitamin A Acetate – A petrochemically produced byproduct that is capable of causing birth defects.
It can be a real challenge avoiding these ingredients when searching for a quality multivitamin. A general rule is to avoid purchasing your supplements in mainstream supermarket outlets and pharmacies, or at the very least thoroughly read the label and search for industrial additives. It is highly preferable that you seek a food-based multivitamin, free of any fillers or synthetic ingredients.
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Boric Acid is perfectly safe and is actually a mineral responsible for delegating where calcium is sent for storage in your body. Without it in your diet, thank you GMOs/pesticides; that wont take it up from the soil, your body put the calcium in your joints and arteries. It also kills micro organisms/bacterial infections in your blood. Do some research before you slander something that is an essential mineral.
And you get 3mg of Boron (boric acid) from one organic apple.
Cupric sulfate is also in many baby formulas. I read this in an article and emailed to my sister-in-law who uses Similac (Cupric sulfate is right there in theingredient list). She told me that she would rather not know this information. I have tried talking about health issues before with her and just get the same reply. She doesn't want to know because it may scare her.
I find this anti-logic insane. Our babies are only 5 weeks apart. I chose to breastfeed and still do (18 month later). I have told her that I am not sending her this information for her. It's for her daughter. Still, she doesn't want to know. I think that she is like most people. Blind by choice. Hear no evil, see no evil, say no evil.
Yeah, Boric Acid isn’t dangerous see the MSDS below. The water comment is a joke and laughable, water is not inherently a poison or toxic. There is never a safe amount of poison to put into your body on a regular basis, get real
Boric Acid is absorbed through skin contact, particularly damaged skin, and inhalation. Quoting the federally required Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) for Boric Acid (H3BO3):
“Potential Health Effects
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Inhalation:
Causes irritation to the mucous membranes of the respiratory tract. May be absorbed from the mucous membranes, and depending on the amount of exposure could result in the development of nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, drowsiness, rash, headache, fall in body temperature, low blood pressure, renal injury, cyanosis, coma, and death.
Ingestion:
Symptoms parallel absorption via inhalation. Adult fatal dose reported at 5 to > 30 grams.
Skin Contact:
Causes skin irritation. Not significantly absorbed through the intact skin. Readily absorbed through damaged or burned skin. Symptoms of skin absorption parallel inhalation and ingestion.
Eye Contact:
Causes irritation, redness, and pain.
Chronic Exposure:
Prolonged absorption causes weight loss, vomiting, diarrhea, skin rash, convulsions and anemia. Liver and particularly the kidneys may be susceptible. Studies of dogs and rats have shown that infertility and damage to testes can result from acute or chronic ingestion of boric acid. Evidence of toxic effects on the human reproductive system is inadequate.
Aggravation of Pre-existing Conditions:
Persons with pre-existing skin disorders or eye problems, or impaired liver, kidney or respiratory function may be more susceptible to the effects of the substance.”
Actually yes, water is toxic in sufficiently high dosages so it is not a joke.
There is no toxin that is so potent that "any" exposure is toxic.
Without stating the dosage that is toxic, then claims about poisons are practically meaningless.
Water is considered the least toxic chemical compound, with a Median Lethal Dose(LD50) of 90g/Kg or more. For someone like me that weighs about 100Kg it means I would have to ingest about 9000g (9 liters) of water in a short period of time (without eliminating that water through any process) to reach the dose that would kill about half the people that tried it.
Botulinum toxin type A is the most lethal toxin known with an LD50 of ~1ng/Kg when injected and ~3ng/Kg when inhaled, which means that for the same chance of a lethal reaction as in the case of water above, I would only need to ingest 100 to 300 nanograms of the stuff depending on how it is delivered. Keep that in mind next time you get your Botox injection.
If you eat right you do not need supplements. That is how I live. I grow my own food and eggs or buy from organic farmers.
Dear Art,
Good on yer, keep it up. Expect to live longer than most. Track down the Doctor Wallach tape, then say you do not need supplements. Organic is best, yes but does not seem to be enough, but don't take my word for it.
Power Unseen
Thank you for this. BHT is toxic.
This stinks of propaganda. No cites, no evidence. More people get killed and damaged in 1 day from FDA approved drugs and procedures than all the people who get killed or damaged from supplements in 3,650 days.
This fear-mongering is part of the strategy to keep the people under the corporate pharmaceutical thumb.
If you are really worried about people's safety, talk about any one of HUNDREDS of deadly items the FDA is approving, and purely on a pharmaceutical company's say-so that the things are safe.
Your right, this is horribly written!!! No citations = sloppy journalism at best or outright lies. However, have to notice that the brand name “centrum” that is attacked is a large corporate brand and I wouldn’t touch that s*&t with a 10 foot pole anyway.
But there are links.. not sure what you're talking about.
Wait, what? This site talks about supplements in a positive light all the time and is against big pharma.
And… there's many links here and elsewhere to support the research:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20491513
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10992263
http://www.greenmedinfo.com/toxic-ingredient/buty…
http://www.greenmedinfo.com/toxic-ingredient/cupr…
Heavy metal toxicity… arsenic poisoning.
Great article thanks, horrible to see what they're putting in our pills!
You better get you facts straight about boric acid. Boric acid inhibits DNA damage does not cause it.
Boric acid is a weak acid that forms a white, water-soluble powder. It occurs naturally in seawater, is found in many plants and most fruits, and has been used since ancient Greek times for cleaning and food preservation. Modern research is finding a basis for the use of boric acid in human health and medicine.
Antioxidant
A study published in the July 2010 journal "Experimental and Toxicologic Pathology" tested the antioxidant capacity of boric acid with regard to its ability to detoxify the body from heavy metal poisoning. The study looked at genotoxicity — DNA damage — to white blood cells induced by arsenic, bismuth, cadmium, mercury and lead in human blood cultures. Oxidative stress was also evaluated by measuring the levels of glutathione — an antioxidant molecule — in red blood cells. The study found that boric acid significantly reduced the genotoxic effects caused by low doses of these heavy metals. The researchers conclude that, based on its antioxidant properties, boric acid may play a protective role in the body and may be useful in the development of functional foods and medicines.
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The ability of boric acid to inhibit the growth of candida albicans was documented in an article published in the February 2009 "Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy." Test-tube preparations of candida albicans were tested using concentrations of boric acid that are safe enough to use as a topical treatment for a human yeast infection. The researchers found that when they varied temperature and boric acid concentration, the yeast were more resistant to higher concentrations of boric acid at cold temperatures. They conclude that boric acid is effective as a therapeutic tool, and they postulate that boric acid works by inhibiting the ability of the fungi to carry out metabolism.
Anti-cancer effects
Anti-cancer effects of boric acid were found on melanoma, a form of skin cancer, in a study published in the August 2009 journal "The Analyst." Boron is found naturally in foods and drinking water, and in locations where levels are low, a correlation has been found with a higher incidence of cancer. The study found that viability of melanoma cells decreased with an increasing concentration of boric acid, and the researchers concluded that high concentrations of boric acid have an anti-proliferative effect via promoting apoptosis — programmed cell death — of melanoma cells.
Another study published in the August 2008 "Cell Adhesion and Migration" found a similar result with breast and prostate cancer cells. The study compared boric acid with a close molecular relative called phenylboronic acid. Both compounds were effective at decreasing cancer cell viability after eight days of treatment; however, phenylboronic acid was found to be the more potent of the two with regard to inhibiting metastatic and proliferative properties of cancer cells.
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"Experimental and Toxicologic Pathology"; The effects of some boron compounds against heavy metal toxicity in human blood; Turkez H, et al; July 2010
"The Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy"; Antifungal mechanisms supporting boric acid therapy of Candida vaginitis; De Seta F, et al; Feb 2009
"The Analyst"; Assessment of the chemical changes induced in human melanoma cells by boric acid treatment using infrared imaging; Acerbo AS, Miller LM; Aug 2009
"Cell Adhesion and Migration"; Phenylboronic acid selectively inhibits human prostate and breast cancer cell migration and decreases viability; Bradke TM, et al; July 2008
Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/article/261648-health-e…
Interesting Rick but have you seen some of the info this article is sourcing?
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8954748
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12128096
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10050931
Just a few here.
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The info about BHT is of interest, especially since there was no dosage information. That is a giveaway. Actually, BHT is very helpful for those with Herpes, and will eventually kill the herpes virus, by degrading the myelin sheath. It is the only known cure for this.
As for the other health risks – if there are some – show me the data, please.
http://www.greenmedinfo.com/toxic-ingredient/buty…
Nice try. This time point to the study that shows the dosage of BHT in the supplements and how that specific dosage is harmful.
The poison is in the dose. At sufficiently high doses, water is toxic.
How about naming these companies that do this???