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?
Posted by Hoosiers51 (Member # 15759) on :
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.
Posted by Hoosiers51 (Member # 15759) on :
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.