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Custom Nutritional SupplementsThey're NOT ‘customized' !If you surf the internet you are bound to have seen advertisements for custom nutritional supplements. These companies seem to offer a package of specialized nutritional supplement designed to meet your specific requirements and health needs. From a ‘nutritional support’ point of view the obvious best way to go would be to take nutritional vitamin supplements formulated on the basis of your current health status....however ....there is no evidence that the information that these companies acquire from customers in order to ‘ custom design’ a blend of vitamins, minerals,enzymes, amino acids, herbal extracts, phytonutrients and other specialty supplements, are any more effective than a professional grade, science-based, multi nutrient wellness supplement. The reality is that to design legitimate custom nutritional supplements the company would literally have to have each individual person come in and complete a series of many blood tests as well as an overall health exam. These tests would then have to be analyzed in a laboratory. The final price tag on this series of tests has been estimated to be close to US $10,000 per person. Obviously there is no company that can afford to offer this type of service except perhaps to the extremely rich.NASA (and other research facilities) are working on developing small diagnostic units which work on a simple pin-prick type blood test, that immediately analyze the users’ health status. They actually have working models now. Eventually this technology will be perfected and the price of a unit will fall to within the reach leading (well funded) supplement companies - they will offer it as a service to their customers which results in the manufacture of custom nutritional supplements. Customers will likely have a unit couriered to their home and then plug it into the internet where the results are downloaded to the supplement company for analysis. I expect this scenario to be only a handful of years away and professional sources in the supplement industry agree.
What actually happens with companies offering custom nutritional supplements is they have devised lengthy computer-scored questionnaires with questions about symptoms that could be present if a nutrient deficiency exists. These questions usually request information like:
You simply pick the closest answer for each on the worksheet for your custom nutritional supplements. A computer, or more likely a person, then tallies your scores and based on this information they assemble a selection of supplements. For example if you said you’re a smoker they’ll make sure that there is a high dose of vitamin C included as smokers are well known for having low vitamin C levels. Their custom nutritional supplement package generally amounts to a simple (and cheap) multi-vitamin and some low potency specialty supplements; all put into a little plastic pouch and sent to you. NOTE: I know of one individual whose well known website looks at misleading sites - he undertook a custom nutritional supplement questionnaire twice - once as a young adult and once as an old man. The result was the SAME in both cases!
The companies behind custom nutritional supplement services do not manufacture the supplements they promote and so have no control over their quality or efficacy. I’d be surprised if their staff know much about supplements at all and be most surprised if any have qualifications in chemistry or bio-science (which is what is needed to understand and formulate quality, science-based supplements). The vitamin/mineral, herbal, phytonutrient and other ‘specialty’ nutrients used in custom nutritional supplements are low potency, and most contain insufficient dose amounts. These supplements are not put together by highly qualified bio-scientists. In fact the majorityare not much better than mass produced supermarket supplements. If these companies were to use premium, high potency, high quality supplements there would be little to no profit margin for their services. Lower quality supplements have low levels of efficacy meaning limited health benefits for the user. You’ll often see the words “blend” or "complex” on the label of these lower quality products – this is a way to disguise low potencies and dose amounts of more important ingredients. You can spend your supplement budget far more wisely than this.
At this point in time true custom nutritional supplements, based on the comprehensive blood tests listed above, don’t exist!
This must include crucial (and expensive) nutrients which your body produces less and less of as you age. For example L-Gluthathione. It's the leading micro-nutriment level supplement in the market and it's called Total Balance from the Xtend-Life company in New Zealand. This ensures unbeatable value for money! Xtend-Life manufactures its own products and controls the manufacturing process through all stages. Only a handful of supplement companies do this and it demonstrates true dedication to quality and safety. All raw materials are sourced from GMP registered and audited facilities and each has a certificate of analysis on file confirming its potency. You can request these if you want. All raw materials are tested prior to manufacture for compliance with certificates of analysis and for microbiological contamination. To further ensure safety and ingredient amounts in accordance with label claims, Xtend-Life is GMP compliant at a pharmaceutical level – the highest standard possible for the manufacture of nutritional supplements. Less than a handful of supplement companies achieve this. Total Balance contains no artificial:
Nor any potential allergenic substances (lactose, gluten, wheat, yeast). The company uses only standardized herbal extracts! This guarantees consistency in the amount of the active ingredients – the potent parts of herbs you’re paying for. Many supplements avoid using standardized extracts because they are considerably more expensive! TB also comes with a 100% unconditional money back guarantee – for a full 12 months! My last word on custom nutritional supplements is this: – It's not (yet) a custom nutritional supplement but it’s the closest thing you’ll get to one at this time. I'm completely confident in recommending Total Balance to you because it's the supplement my family and I have used for the past 7 years. If you would like more information on
Total Balance
just follow this link to the xtend-life website! Custom nutritional supplements to home page
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