Super Supplements Or Not So Super?

The Markets Elite Health Supplements May Not Be All They Claim To Be!

Is Your Multivitamin A HUGE WASTE OF MONEY?

Is your supplement marketed as one of the industry's super supplements?

You know, one of those ".... comprehensive, strongest, completely safe, science based multi ingredient vitamin supplements" - one of the super products!

If you're using one of those (or thinking about it) then your intentions are great. You want to practice preventative healthcare and take control of your own health.

Congratulations and Well Done!

You know you're not always meeting the challenge of eating a healthy diet that provides you with a full spectrum of the essential and disease preventing nutrients you need.

And being a savvy, health conscious consumer you understand the health boosting benefits and protection from disease that comes from using an elite, professional grade multi ingredient supplement.

The industry's state-of-the-art super supplements help support, rejuvenate, enhance and guard your COMPLETE health (not just 'part' of it like cheaper supplement do!)

They limit damage from free radical production while revving-up your immune system to fight off all those common (and ever increasing) degenerative diseases which are crippling people at earlier and earlier ages.

But are you actually receiving the type of super supplement you thought you bought?

Are you getting all the health benefits you were promised?

Are you truly getting great value for money?

Or have you been SUCKED IN by dishonest supplement suppliers and their clever marketing presentations?

Are you throwing your money down the you know what?

Let me show you how supplement manufacturers and suppliers can deceive and mislead you. Then you can answer the above questions!

Consider these critical issues.....

What if Your Supplement Is Weak Because It's Missing The Important Ingredients?

You're bound to know by now that most (but not quite all) health supplements are made to a price.

That means that bio-chemists who are force to formulate supplements to a given price mark are NOT ALLOWED TO INCLUDE ALL THAT SHOULD BE THERE!

So, their formulas are NOWHERE NEAR AS STRONG as they could (and should) be!

To read more about why nutritional vitamin supplements are not as good as they should be just follow this link.

Now, if you believe you are using a top notch super supplement does it contain these ingredients...?

• L-Glutathione ('Reduced' form)


• L-Carnosine


• Bilberry


• Polysaccharides


• Resveratrol ('Trans' form, high potency)


• Turmeric (high potency)


• Zeaxanthin


• Tocotrienols


• Chrysin (Men's versions)

No?

These are 8 especially important, highly efficious (and expensive) key ingredients that ABSOLUTELY SHOULD BE THERE!

Now what about powerful Medicinal Herbs?

Are there at least two handfuls of the MOST EFFECTIVE, broad spectrum medicinal herbal extracts - super herbs for a super food supplement - for super nutrition.

They're VITALLY IMPORTANT ingredients for protecting against and treating chronic disease.

Would you like to know the names of the best medicinal herbs? nutritional supplements and herbs

What about the most potent immunity enhancer available: Polysaccharides?

Is it there and backed up by several other IMMUNITY NUTRIENTS as well?

Open this pdf file to learn the names of the most effective ingredients for your immune system AND ALL your organs and systems.

Real super supplements ALSO contain the VITAL ingredients in the following categories. These are usually missing in many so-called super health supplements:

• Amino Acids


• Enzymes


• Gender Support Nutrients

The female and male support nutrients are special ingredients which address common health conditions specific to each sex.

Examples of these POWERFUL ingredients are:

• Black Cohosh


• Red Clover


• Dong Quai


• Wild Yam


• Isoflavones

These are hormonal precursors that balance the female hormonal cascade.

Examples for men are:

• Chrysin


• Beta Sitosterol


• Corn silk Extracts


• Lycopene


• Saw Palmetto


• Zinc Aspartate

Chrysin is a wonderful bioflavonoid and natural aromatase inhibitor which helps inhibit testosterone conversion to estrogen while the other ingredients are the most clinically proven prostate protectors.

If natural vitamin supplements are in the running to be super supplements they must target ALL ORGANS AND SYSTEMS IN YOUR BODY. That requires a wide spectrum of all the various types of nutrients.

How many ingredients does your super supplement have? The supplement that my family and I use has over 80!

You shouldn't forget to check potencies and the dose amounts of the ingredients, particularly those miraculous plant derived ingredients, the phytonutrients and super herbs.

What If Your Supplement Is Put Together By Contract Manufacturers?

Did you know that 95% of all nutritional vitamins supplements manufactured in the U.S. are CONTRACTED OUT?

This is FARRRRR from the ideal situation.

This means you cannot put the control of the manufacturing processes into the hands of a third party manufacturer.

When this happens you lose control of vital components:

• Ingredients


• Blending Protocols


• Top Notch Manufacturing Know-How!

And the answer I want to see is that the supplement company self manufactures and controls EVERY aspect of the production cycle.

You see, supplement quality is not only dependent on the manufacturer INDEPENDENTLY testing that the raw ingredients are what the Certificate of Analysis (COA) CLAIMS they are (Note: many manufacturers don't bother testing for compliance with COA's so they can reduce expenses) .....

..... but also that they adopt manufacturing procedures to ensure the finished supplement contains the correct dose amounts for each and every ingredient and is manufactured professionally.

Unfortunately the incentive is simply not there for most contract manufacturers to do this as they are producing for a third party and therefore they are in a very competitive bidding situation.

Want to know more: nutritional supplements and contract manufacturing

What if Even One Of The Raw Materials Used In Your Supplement Is Contaminated Because All Ingredients Haven't Been Fully Tested And Properly Certified?

Contaminated ingredients!

It happens ALOT you know! Particularly in herbal supplements!

That means you should do whatever you have to check up on the quality assurance measures for your supplement (including products marketed as super supplements).

Scour the company's website first and if there's nothing there SEND OFF AN EMAIL.

Why Gamble With Your Health?

Don’t trust, and possibly throw your money away, on a so called super supplement unless you’re 100% sure it makes the grade.

You can however TRUST the one of a kind multi ingredient super supplement my family and I use because I've already done the research and evaluations.

It passed with flying colors and destroyed all its competition along the way!

It's called Total Balance and you can learn more about Total Balance here (there's separate men's and women's versions) or read my Total Balance review here

What If Your Supplement Manufacturer Doesn't Check For HARMFUL Compnents Of An Ingredient?

That's right! That's how SERIOUS it can get if your supplement manufacturer doesn't have a profesional and experienced bio-chemist formulating it's supplements.

For example: MANY supplement manufacturers include Gingko Biloba extract as an ingredient but do they check, or have a limit on, the level of Gingkolic acids that affect the neurochemistry of the brain?

What about the popular ingredient 5-HTP.

I'm sure many disreptuable companies as well as manufacturers lacking frist class manufacturing know-how, don't check for the levels of Peak X, a component implicated in an outbreak of Eosinophilia-Myalgia Syndrome some years back?

They just don't know!

This is yet a further reason why you MUST check up on the company that manufactures any nutritional health susplement which you are considering buying!

What If Your Supplement Is Actually Giving You
Poor Value For Money?

Genuine super supplements have to be highly effective AND be capable of preventing, treating and even reversing chronic disease while also maximizing your health and wellness.

In other words genuine super supplements help do far more than just act as routine 'nutritional insurance for poor diets' which most people associate as the main reason for taking vitamin supplements.

So, the first thing to do when measuring the value for money factor in the best vitamin supplements is to work out what percentage of one tablet is made up of vitamins and minerals.

Super Vitamins

What about supplement vitamins?

One of the cheapest vitamins is good old vitamin C (ascorbic acid). It costs only around $15 a kilo and this is one eightieth the price of some of the really important ingredients (like L-Glutathione).

From my research I know of several well known and highly popular multi ingredient vitamin supplements which market themselves as super supplements, but the huge amount of vitamin C they contain makes up a WHOPPING 40% of their ENTIRE formula!

Did you know that if you take more than 400mg of vitamin C in one hit it actually changes to being a PRO-OXIDANT in your body! That's means it becomes the opposite of an antioxidant - it will actually create free radicals rather than remove them!

HOW MUCH VITAMIN C IS IN YOUR HEALTH SUPPLEMENT?

Calcium and magnesium are extremely common examples of other very cheap vitamins and minerals which supplement companies sneak in with crazy over-the-top dose amounts.

Now, don't get me wrong here. You do need a full spectrum supply of all vitamins and minerals, except iron which is a pro-oxidant.

But you absolutely don’t need a supplement mostly full of high doses of vitamins and minerals!

Many of the more expensive, self claimed best vitamin supplements, are a whopping 70% - 80% JUST vitamins and minerals

The most elite super supplements contain primarily potent phytonutrients, medicinal herbs, amino acids, enzymes and gender support nutrients, with vitamins and minerals playing an important synergistic supporting role as nature's supplement!

What if Your Supplement's Manufacturer Isn't Working To The Highest level Possible?

Super supplements are put together with top of the line professional manufacturing processes and blending protocols, along with state of the art equipment.

To manufacture at the highest level your supplement's manufacturer needs to manufacture at a PHARMACEUTICAL LEVEL and nothing less.

The only thing I like about pharmaceutical companies is the RIGOROUS standards they follow to ensure that what they say is in their products truly are. It is rare that a pharmaceutical drug is contaminated or spiked with additional ingredients or that its contents don't match the label.

That's why its SO IMPORTANT that your supplement's manufacturer follows pharmaceutical level processes. because the current dietary supplement regulations DO NOT ensure that supplements contain what they say they do!

If a supplement manufacturer uses Pharmaceutical GMP you'll easily know about it because they'll have it highlighted in huge letters on their website. It differentiates them from all the others.

Very few companies can and do manufacture to this STRICT level!

You could count the ones that do on ONE HAND!

Manufacturers of super supplements use complex pharmaceutical blending protocols which involve blending in several stages over several hours.

These are FAR SUPERIOR to the common method of simply putting all the ingredients together at the same time and dumping the mix into a big tumble blender. The mix is then blended for around 20 minutes ONLY!

The greatest concern here is an uneven mix due to ‘STRATIFICATION’ where the heaviest ingredients settle at the bottom of the mix.

What If Your Supplement's Supplier Isn't Accredited And Properly Inspected?

I'm sorry to have to tell you this but there are a lot of dishonest and disreputable supplement manufacturers out there producing ineffective and even unsafe supplements.

Then there are many others who just don't have the superior manufacturing know-how to produce a professional grade supplement.

Cost-cutting measures result in nasty short-cuts that consumers know nothing about. Add to this some technical oversights from a lack of top grade know-how and in no time at all supplement quality is speeding downhill.

Super supplements are made at facilities which are US FDA cGMP (Current Good Manufacturing Practices) compliant.

In June 2007 the US FDA released its final new rules on GMP for the manufacture of dietary supplements. It's taken the FDA over 5 years to revise these and I believe they are now the MOST IMPORTANT accreditation you need to look for.

You absolutely should checkup on whether your supplement's manufacturer currently meets or HAS BEGUN the process of meeting the US FDA's new cGMP.

Depending on the number of employees, companies have until June 2010 to become compliant.

Don’t take anything for granted when it comes to your health and your family's health. Every detail is worthy of your attention!

What If Your Supplement's Manufacturer Isn't Using The Most Advanced Equipment?

It goes without saying that to achieve superior quality control a manufacturer needs to use state of the art equipment which is the best of its kind.

So, can you guess what the most important piece of equipment is?

Yes - It's the blender that mixes all the ingredients together!

Cheaper blenders don't get the job done as well and what do you think that means for you?......

.....That the contents of each tablet are NOT THE SAME and they're not a true reflection of what's being advertised on the supplement label.

What's the best blender available you ask?

It's called a 3D Blender and it achieves a PERFECT BLEND particularly for complex formulas with low dose ingredients of varying densities.

Pharmaceutical companies commonly use 3D mixers because they are subject to extremely strict regulations and their super pills must contain exactly what's on the label.

But 3D mixers are rarely used in the supplement industry!

Tha's because they are mighty expensive so not many companies use one (even though they should).

If your supplement company uses a 3D blender you're on a WINNER!

And once again you'll know about it because they'll definitely be screaming it out on their website loud and clear as well as in their marketing literature.

Does your super supplement boast a 3D mixer? Mine does.

What to know more: vitamin supplement manufacturers

What If Your Supplement Has Too Many Excipients?

Have you ever wondered about that section on a supplement label that says "Other Ingredients"?

In the industry the ingredients listed there are known as EXCIPIENTS.

These ingredients are inactives!

They don't provide any health benefits but small number are necessary to assist the manufacturing process.

The leading Super Supplements contain an absolute minimal number of excipients - about 5. Having such a small number can in fact often create certain manufacturing difficulties leading to additional expense but this is what is required in the manufacture of quality natural supplements.

I know of one extremely well-known multi that contains an UNBELIEVABLE 62 EXCIPENTS. The name of the brand starts with the letter C.

Now the other thing to watch out for here is that ALL EXCIPIENTS COME FROM NATURAL SOURCES!

You absolutely don't want artificial anything in that list - Colors, Flavors, Preservatives, Fillers, Binders (think of it like a nature supplement). Nor do you want potential allergenic substances such as lactose, gluten, wheat and yeast.

To find out if those "other Ingredients" in your supplement are natural or not visit my tablet binders, fillers and other excipients page.

Which Of The Super Supplements Gets My Vote?

You already know this from above.

It's Total Balance from the Xtend-Life Company based all the way down in New Zealand.

You might be interested to know that the supplement regulatory environment in New Zealand is FAR STRICTER than in the U.S.

Only professional, high quality supplements make it out of New Zealand!

Total Balance is a true SUPER SUPPLEMENT.

It was formulated by a world renowned bio-scientist who has been hired by many countries around the world to develop formulas that their own scientists couldn’t master, including brain formulas for the NASA space program.

And the formula has been revved up 5 times in the past 7 years as new developments in nutritional science come along.

View Total Balance Men's Plus

View Total Balance Women's Plus

Each dose of Total Balance is chocked full of:

• Dozens of high potency PHYTONUTRIENTS


• More than a DOZEN Powerful MEDICINAL HERBS – STANDARDIZED of course


• A Full Range of AMINO ACIDS


• Standardized ENZYMES


• Broad spectrum of ESSENTIAL VITAMINS AND MINERALS


• COFACTORS


• TRACE ELEMENTS


• Special GENDER SUPPORT NUTRIENTS


• A Potent IMMUNITY BLEND - a formula within a formula!

I've reviewed hundreds of supplements including the industry's super supplements and Total Balance demolished all others in terms of it's extraordinary formula AND value for money. After all the best supplements have to be affordable right, or what's the point!

That's why my family and I have used this unique wellness supplement since 1999.

This galaxy of ingredients supports your overall wellness, slows your aging process, boosts your immunity, supplies you with superior antioxidant protection and most importantly offers you ADVANCED disease prevention.

To learn all the details about how Total Balance help you take control of your health and live the life you want and deserve just visit the Xtend-Life website

And you may like to take a look at my best vitamin supplements comparisons to see how Total Balance nails other industry leading supplements.

And this link will take you to my review of Total Balance