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No Government Oversight of Dietary Supplements? Enter LabDoor
Blind faith in anything, Bruce Springsteen once said, will get you killed. Whether that is literally true, the Boss was simply pointing out the obvious: being informed is a hell of a lot safer than living in ignorance. It will help you make healthier choices. Clearly, that goes for what you put into your body.
But when it comes to dietary supplements, for the last two decades we've been pretty much on our own. Prior to then dietary supplements were subject to the same regulatory control by the Food & Drug Administration as any other food product. But in 1994 the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) left it up to manufacturers…
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LabDoor
As consumers, we'd like to think that the vitamins and supplements we buy are effective and safe. In reality, this isn't always the case. Labdoor is an independent company that tests supplements. We find out whether products have what they claim and if they have any harmful ingredients or contaminants. Then, we grade and rank those products, write reports, and publish that information for free, so consumers can confidently buy the best supplements for their health.
Millennials Are Breaking Health Myths At A Rapid Pace: Here's How
Millennials’ distrust of large, old institutions is no secret. From Uber to renewable energy, millennials have continuously found ways to circumvent more traditional industries and come up with innovative ideas as new solutions. This same attitude of distrust and the resulting innovation applies to this generation’s relationship with health care.
Omega-3s: Is It an Environmental Disaster?
Are Omega-3 fatty acids one of nature's wonder supplements or are we just destroying the fish and the oceans and ultimately ourselves in the quest for health?
Essential Nutrients You're Missing From Your Diet
Iron: Check. Vitamin C: Got it. But are you getting enough of these other key nutrients?
I'm In: Let's Talk About Dietary Supplements
I'm in. Let's talk about it. I have been personal observer and a professional participant in the natural products industry since the 1970s. While its core reason for being -- the optimization of our personal health -- is strong, the culture in which that philosophy exists has grown crowded and complicated. In some cases, direct-to-consumer claims are excessive and products are not always safe.
Meet the New Snake Oil, Same as the Old Snake Oil
No longer the exclusive province of carnival barkers and traveling salesmen, the snake oil of today is made by countless companies and sold at GNC, Target, Walgreens, Walmart, and thousands of other retailers on and off the Web. I'm referring to dietary supplements, products such as echinacea, ginseng, ginkgo biloba, and other "herbs," variously marketed to provide relief from colds, enhance stamina, improve memory, relieve aching joints, or deliver other benefits.
Real Fish vs. Fish Oil: And the Winner Is...
At the end of the day, if you are open to eating fish, you should. The wild forms are cleaner and smaller fishes which are lower on the predatory chain would be your best bet for keeping mercury levels lower.
No Government Oversight of Dietary Supplements? Enter LabDoor
With the government abdicating its responsibility to ensure that dietary supplements are all they're cracked up to be, the door is wide open for LabDoor, a service that promises to bring the facts.
Natural Products Foundation
Naturalproductsinfo.org is a part of the Natural Products Foundation, your source for science-based vitamin and supplement information.
Elysium
Elysium Health is developing advanced natural health products that are novel and validated by science. Our scientific team includes more than 30 of the world's top scientists, researchers and clinicians including multiple Nobel Prize winners and other pioneers in medicine. Leveraging new technologies, we can now impact wellness in an innovative way - from cellular and metabolic processes to entire systems and pathways.
Healthy Directions
To help people lead healthier, happier lives by providing expert guidance and advanced nutritional supplements from America's leading doctors of integrative medicine.
PatchMD
PatchMD provides vitamins and supplements in a topical patch that utilizes the skin for the delivery system and avoids the digestive system.
The Vitamin Shoppe
We're America's most trusted resource and leading health retailer of vitamins and nutritional supplements, with over 300 stores nationwide and aggressive plans for continued expansion.
Vitacost
With Vitacost.com, you don't have to choose between stores that sell products you don't really want at super-low prices, and stores that sell the better health and wellness products you want at crazy-high prices. We offer over 2,000 of the top, most-trusted natural brands, diet foods and healthy living essentials-the very best nutritional supplements, whole foods and sports nutrition-at discount prices, up to 50% off.
VitaGlo
VitaGlo.com is the web presence for Discount Natural Foods. A Central New York based company, Discount Natural Foods has been the leader in Vitamins, Supplements, Herbs and Natural Foods, in the area for over 20 years.
VitaminLife.com
Save on supplements from quality companies such as Country Life and Solgar or select cutting edge vitamins from Jarrow Formulas and Source Naturals.
Cyanotech
Cyanotech Corporation, a world leader in microalgae technology, produces BioAstin Natural Astaxanthin and Hawaiian Spirulina Pacifica–all natural, functional nutrients that leverage our experience and reputation for quality, building nutritional brands which promote health and well-being. All Cyanotech products are pesticide and herbicide free, and do not contain any genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
EnerHealth
EnerHealthBotanicals offers fair trade, organic products with a gourmet taste We make the food you eat even healthier for you and your family!
eVitamins
We offer more than 15,000 name brand items including vitamins, herbs, supplements, whole foods, baby care, bodybuilding, pet supplies and more! When it comes to maintaining a balanced diet, a healthy body and an evironmentally friendly home, we've got you covered!
Kaire
Kaire has been bringing forth healthy change, a vision of purpose and a distinct passion for helping to enrich the lives of many. eKaire begins every product development cycle by searching the world over for cutting-edge, scientifically superior natural ingredients that meet our high standards of safety, quality, and purity to create the most advanced natural health products available.
Metagenics
Turning nutrigenomic discoveries into readily available medical foods and nutraceuticals. No products work quite like proprietary Metagenics products, and we have the data to back it up. We’ve changed the product development model to deliver truly nutrigenomic medical foods and nutraceuticals that offer a higher degree of safety, effectiveness, and reliability in natural approaches.
Pure Health Systems
Welcome to Pure Health Systems , where you can get natural health care articles, procure latest health information and shop for whole food supplements and products at affordable prices.
Rainforest Pharmacy
Rainforest Pharmacy's products are mainly chosen from select beneficial plants used since ancient times by the Indians of Peru and Brazil. With one of the highest levels of biological diversity in the world, the Amazon rainforest is an extremely rich source of nutritional plants and people knowledgeable in their use. To obtain the best quality materials, we work closely with our botanist and environmentally conscious herb suppliers. All our raw materials are processed following strict guidelines and imported following FDA requirements.
Source Naturals
Source Naturals pioneered the concept with Wellness Formula, now the industry's #1 immune support product.
Stop Aging Now
We are more than just a company that makes dietary supplements. We are a nutrition and lifestyle company that relies on the latest clinical research to guide us in our efforts to help you live longer and better.
Symbiotics
Your immune system gets depleted as you age. Colostrum Plus adds back antibodies and the full range of immune factors for dual action in the bloodstream and also in the GI tract.
The Natural Shopper
The Natural Shopper offers high quality Bee hive products. When you buy bee products from us you can rest assured that we stand by all our products and offer you excellent customer service to ensure the whole experience is to your satisfaction.
The Raw Food World
Matt Monarch is 100% raw vegan; his diet consists of only raw vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds and seaweeds. He has been eating this way for six years and enjoys extraordinary good health, bountiful energy, clarity of mind and a deepened connection to nature.
Advanced Orthomolecular Research
Advanced Orthomolecular Research is Canada's most advanced supplement manufacturer
allOne
ALL ONE specializes in "Certified Vegan" nutritional supplement powders, multiple vitamin, mineral & protein powders and supplements.
Barleans
Barlean's uses only the freshest, unrefined, and unfiltered ingredients in their organic flax oil so you get pure supplements you can't find anywhere else.
Baseline Nutritionals
We scour the world for the highest quality, organic, wild-crafted, and USP grade ingredients. A handful of companies can match our quality. No one can beat it.
Botanic Choice
Welcome to Botanic Choice where you'll find high-quality nutritional supplements, vitamins and fresh herbs.
Coromega
Coromega is a natural source of Omega-3 fatty acids from pharmaceutical grade fish oil.
DailyVita.com
DailyVita.com is the ultimate shopping website for natural health and fitness supplements and gifts. Here you will find the best quality products with the lowest prices online.
DetoxYourWorld
The first in certified organic raw and superfoods resource in the UK. We believe in optimal health, love, happiness, and light. We offer tools to help you get there.
Dr. Mercola
When I offer or recommend products, I do so because I have actively researched them and find they are the best in that category for your health. I ignore substandard products, and products not directly pertinent to your health, regardless of any potential financial upside. Profit generated from the sale of the products I recommend goes right back into maintaining and building a better site. A site that, startling as it may be with all the greed-motivated hype out there in health care land, is truly for you.
DrNatura
How to beat constipation, IBS, bloating, stomach pain and skin problems while gaining more energy and a flatter stomach at the same time.
Earth's Bounty
Earth's Bounty is a manufacturer of unique specialty health supplements. Our Earth’s Bounty product line includes proven formulations for longevity, sports, skin, preventative, colon health and male/female needs. Earth's Bounty specializes in advanced oxygen, colloidal, flash-frozen, polymer matrix and herbal technologies.
EarthTurns.com
EarthTurns.com is your resource for all natural discount vitamins and supplements. We have quickly become the best place to buy natural health supplements and discount vitamins online.
Easy Wellbeing
Keeping You, Happy, Healthy, and Vibrant for life.
Flora
FloraHealth.com can help you achieve better health the natural way, by providing you with factual information on the extensive line of natural health products that we manufacture and exclusively distribute
Get Well Natural
Get Well Natural offers you a trusted line of Premium Doctor Recommended & Developed natural herbal supplements and health products created from the successful integration of Western Medicine & Eastern Medicine in unique, proprietary & effective ways.
GNC
GNC sets the standard in the nutritional supplement industry by demanding truth in labeling, ingredient safety and product potency.
Herbalife
We are a global nutrition company that has helped people pursue healthy, active lives since 1980. Our products are available exclusively through approximately 2.5 million independent Distributors in more than 80 countries.
iHerb
iHerb sells nutritional supplements and other healthy products both domestically and internationally. A rapidly-expanding business, iHerb carries one of the largest selections of high - quality nutritional products in the world.
KosherVitamins.com
At KosherVitamins.com, you'll find an extensive selection of kosher vitamins, kosher nutrients and kosher supplements, as well as other health products – all in one place, at the best prices. Whether you need kosher Vitamin C or Vitamin D, Kosher Omega-3 fish oil or calcium supplements, kosher antioxidants or acidophilus formulas, or kosher glucosamine, KosherVitamins.com has what you're looking for.
MedicalProvisions.com
Your One-Stop-Shop for all your Health & Wellness product needs.
NativeRemedies
Welcome to Native Remedies, the market-leading brand of specially formulated, natural remedies produced in therapeutic dosage. Over half a million customers worldwide have achieved fast-acting symptomatic relief and improved long-term health.
Nature's Bounty
Nature's Bounty has been the trusted name in nutritional supplements for more than 30 years.
Nature's Plus
Nature's Plus supplements are known as The Energy Supplements because the standards of excellence practiced by the Nature's Plus family result in products that are unsurpassed in their ability to release natural energy
Nature's Way
As one of the few original health food industry pioneers still in operation, the company has been in business since 1969.
NatureMade
Use our Health Sense checklist, a consumer's guide to smart vitamin use. Plus find interactive tools to help unveil the mystery of vitamin and herb labels.
Nutrition 21
Good insulin health isn't just for diabetics. Chromax' chromium picolinate can help you take more control of your health.
Paradise Herbs
At Paradise Herbs we know that the end product is only as good as your starting material. We obtain our herbs from special alliances we have built all over the world. Our herbs are grown where they are indigenous
Peter's Choice Nutrition Center
Our goal is to provide excellent quality supplements, as well as education, to help our bodies maintain vitality as they age.
Puritan's Pride
Puritan's Pride began over 40 years ago, with the mission of making the finest quality nutritional supplements available at the best value. Today, we remain true to our original commitment and thanks to the trust and continued loyalty of our over six million customers, Puritan's Pride is the #1 way to shop at home for vitamins.
Purity Products
What started as a three person operation has blossomed into a thriving, nutritional and health products company, with well over one million customers.
SeniorLife Health
We offer you trustworthy, secure, online shopping for natural nutritional supplements that are specifically formulated to meet the needs of people in their mature years.
Shaklee
Our products undergo a screening process that surpasses even the standards of the United States Pharmacopeia
Solanova Supplements
We founded our business with the premise that our customers and their specific health needs would be our primary focus. With this principle as our foundation, we began developing products that would meet all of our customers' needs.
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