Topic: Consumerlab.com claims lead contamination--legit?
adamm
Unregistered
posted
Seems like, according to them, a ton of our supplements are contaminated with lead. Well, if so, they sure have quite the monopoly on this information...
Does anyone here have an account/ know anything about the truth of what's on that site?
IP: Logged |
Hoosiers51
Frequent Contributor (1K+ posts)
Member # 15759
posted
I have had chronic Lyme for 8 years and during those 8 years I have taken a LOT of supplements!
I recently had a heavy metals test done from Doctor's Data that was done with a provoking agent (DMSA I think), and lead was not elevated AT ALL. It was completely undetected. I was slightly elevated for Aluminum and Cadmium, and very elevated for Mercury, which is probably from vaccines and fish for me.
Granted, I have taken mostly the supplements that the LLMD's recommend....so most of them are pretty high quality I guess. I would be leery of buying really cheap supplements from places like Walmart or CVS.
Sometimes I will take something cheap-er from the health food store, like Solaray brand, but as you can see, so far I am okay.
So I would only worry if you are taking tons of very inexpensive supplements....even then, who knows. So maybe "our" supplements are okay, at least based on my experience.
Posts: 4590 | From Midwest | Registered: Jun 2008
| IP: Logged |
Hoosiers51
Frequent Contributor (1K+ posts)
Member # 15759
posted
PS---one thing I would be VERY careful with is anything containing a blue-green algae like chlorella, spirulina, etc.
Check the labels of a lot of these energy supplements, multi-vitamin type supplements or supplements with a lot of ingredients. Chlorella, spirulina, etc are SO easy to contaminate, that I refuse to buy any supplement that adds those in. Even if someone here recommends it to me, I don't buy it.
Those are grown in China and are almost certainly contaminated.
If I want chlorella, spirulina, or any other blue-green algae, I will only buy them on their own (not mixed with other things because even the expensive brands will cheap out, I guarantee) from a VERY small list of suppliers that can provide documentation of the purity of their product. My LLMD recommends Prime Chlorella.
Even some companies other Lymies have recommended to me, when I have emailed their company asking for specifics on purity, the company could not provide me with any testing they have done on their product.
I am only speaking of these blue-green algae, b/c they suck up contaminants like a sponge.
I am also very careful with fish oil brands, those are also more likely to have contamination. I buy Carlson's or anything labelled FREE of contaminants. So again, I don't buy supps that have fish oil "in" them.
Hope that helps.
Posts: 4590 | From Midwest | Registered: Jun 2008
| IP: Logged |
The Lyme Disease Network is a non-profit organization funded by individual donations. If you would like to support the Network and the LymeNet system of Web services, please send your donations to:
The
Lyme Disease Network of New Jersey 907 Pebble Creek Court,
Pennington,
NJ08534USA http://www.lymenet.org/
UBBFriend: Email this page to someone!
Printer-friendly view of this topic