Inactive ingredients in drugs and supplements are harming you
CAUTION: "Inactive" Ingredients in Most Common Drugs and Supplements are harming you!
Inactive ingredients are also known as excipients. These are added to pills and capsules to pad out the active ingredient that you are paying for.
These are commonly chemicals that enable the production machinery to go faster without stoppages. They also increase the volume of the pill or capsule so you think you are getting a bigger bang for your buck.
More excipients than active ingredient
A recent study[1] has found that the vast majority of the most common prescription drugs and supplements contain "inactive" ingredients. These extra ingredients have been shown to cause adverse reactions.
Your doctor prescribe drugs for their "active ingredient". The doctor would have told you about the possible side effects of those active ingredients. The same is also true when you go into the health food store to buy your supplements.
What the doctor doesn't tell you is up to 99% of pills and tablets are actually made of "excipients". These excipients are the "inactive" ingredients. They help the drug's appearance, color, flavor, absorption, shelf-life, and other properties. These "inactive" ingredients are only for the benefit of the manufacturers bottom line and not yours.
Read the labels
You need to know that more than 90% of all oral medications tested had at least one such "inactive" ingredient that can cause allergic or gastrointestinal problems, especially to those with certain sensitivities.
​This includes, but is not limited to, ingredients such as chemical dyes... gluten... peanut oil... and lactose. In fact, most medications contain more than one type of inactive ingredients.
If you do take any prescription or OTC medications, do your best to research what their "inactive" ingredients are. Check their possible effects (not just the possible side effects of the main "active" ingredient, in other words.)
Most "inactive" ingredients are shown in the small print in the ingredients list. Common ones are Magnesium Stearate, Rice Flour, Tapioca Flour, Silicon Dioxide, Titanium Dioxide. There are many more of these excipients (see list here) that the FDA have determined are safe for manufacturers to add to their products to increase their profits.
Here is a range of supplements that do not use excipients or any other additives.
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References
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Steinberg M, Silverstein I.The use of unallowed excipients.Int J Toxicol. 2003 Sep-Oct;22(5):373-5.PMID: 14555409 DOI: 10.1177/109158180302200506
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