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Am I the only one who does not like to buy ANY supplements that are put in gelatin capsules? The gelatin is made from beef and who knows where the source of that comes from.
VitaCost has a lot of products I would like to buy but dont cuz they are all gelatin.
Im sick enough without adding any unnecessary risk factors and gelatin is a risk factor. They can make them out of veggy material but the cost is a bit more.
Anyone else like me please write your supplier and ask them for a gelatin alternative and perhaps we can get one if enough of us care.
In the mean time I will have to keep looking at a dozen suppliers and tossing around the risk/reward ratio and using the dart board for ordering.
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Oh I agree! I try to find tablets that don't have the gelatin shell. I now by bottled oils- flaxseed etc for the Omega's - much better!
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Many of the better brands use cellulose or non/animal capsules. We used to and still do make a lot by making our own capsules, especially the herbs. Find a way to empty the capsule if you do not want the gelatin into a thick juice -- I use Mango juice or a thick tomato juice. A spoonful of cottage cheese will hide a lot. Whatever works. Whatever. Become inventive.
Most of all, notify the manufacturers. If we don't speak up, that industry will do almost anything. As long as it is nicely pink, nicely yellow, nicely white --- all of it a toxin to an already sick body.
Just look at some of your pills (for which you pay a lot of money) and such that still contain methylparaben, propylparaben, titanium dioxide, artifical color this and artificial flavor that, and other toxic stuff plus some other metals that I am not (neither is my doctor) so sure about. Find out what is really toxic; others and I have posted lists of these. Make yourselves heard instead of just paying the bill now and later.
Take care.
P.S. It took my doctor over a year calling the maker of Vitalzyme again and again and again until they finally took the titanium dioxide out of their otherwise good product. They are now selling both kinds, one with and one without. Vitalzyme and Vitalzyme X. Buyer beware!!!! most people just don't know. Trying to get rid of their old supply?
Please examine (with a reading glass or magnifier) all your bottles and containers to make sure you are not getting an extra load of toxin that is as hard to get rid of or harder than Lyme. If you are taking it in religiously on a daily basis, you will have a hard time getting out of this disease.
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