The Tom Woods Show notes.
Labdoor.com. Find out which supplements are best, where they rank, and their effectiveness.
Here is Neil Thanedar's Twitter page. Find his blog here. Consumers value transparency where transparency breeds trust, and so companies are responding to this trend.
Labels don't tell you that there's lead in the product. FDA's testing system is reactive.
FDA tests pharmaceuticals for safety and effectiveness.
FDA tests for neither safety nor effectiveness of nutritional supplements.
There’s no mercury. Found products where the probiotics actually died and less than 1% of the probiotics were still IN the product.
11:43. Neil Thanedar asks THE pertinent question:
Is the active ingredient there?
Lots of categories of products have lied.
Fish oils say its’s1000mgs actually 800mgs
No lead, arsenic.
Protein powder says 20 grams of protein when there’s only 5 or 10 grams per scoop.
Worked with companies to do failure analysis or recall investigations and product development. Spent a lot of time reverse engineering products. That’s a service to those businesses. It hit him rather than work with one company at a time, could he scale it up? And tell people what products they should buy before they come in the store.
Products that are failing? @ 14-minute mark:
We've seen herbal supplements where the company is just lying. There's no active ingredient, zero active ingredients in the product. This is crazy. It's literally just a sugar pill. And then even worse than that we've found some of those products because they're just a sugar pill will have a bacteria on top of that. So they have no active ingredient and they have the contamination. So many categories . . . right? Fish oil has those problems where the product can go rancid.
Shelf-life issue. How long did the mfg let it sit in the warehouse before it was shipped? Everyone defers to expiration dates. Protein powder had lead and arsenic contamination--2 or 3 scoops. Accumulation of heavy metals. Creatine is the same way. If you're going to take a product every single day. The difference between high and low-quality product can make a big difference.
He trusted bigger brands when he started.
No correlation between price and quality or brand and quality. It comes down to a specific day or product to someone delivering a
How many companies actually make their own product? Amazon or Alibaba, they buy it from someone else, put their label on it, and sell their product on Amazon. A white label relationship or changing someone's label? Bigger risk of counterfeit product in the latter case. Don't know where the products are coming from. The final company doesn't know and they often don't care.
Gov't holds a press conference. Everyone attends, and they get the word out.
How does Neil work?
He uses the press too. Do you know what's really in your supplements?
No one is doing this product testing. Who is going to do it? Turns out that it is him.
FDA doesn't overpromise. People have a lazy assumption on testing. There is this general sense that our safety is being looked after. The realization that no one is actually doing this and do something about it is astounding.
21:35. The system isn't really built for consumer awareness or education. It's built to reduce liability.
Dr. Barry Sears' Omega 3's are pretty good. His claim is
Dr. Barry Sears' Omega 3's are pretty good. His claim is
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