October 27, 2015Nutrition
How To Make A Safe Choice When Choosing Supplements

In my experience, I have personally practiced and recommended a few basic rules when deciding which supplements to choose, regardless of where you go to pick them up.
Watch for these ingredients in the “inactive ingredients” portion of the label.
- Magnesium Stearate
- Calcium Stearate
- Sodium Starch
- Lactose, Wheat, Soy, or Corn Starches/Products
- Anything you can’t pronounce or is abbreviated
The ingredients above are all binders, fillers, and expedients, i.e. they hold the pill together and/or they allow the pill to slide down the processing machine quicker, so that mass amount of pills can be produced. They necessarily do not have any nutritional value.
The inactive ingredients above have been shown to keep pills from being broken down when patients with poor digestion cannot produce adequate stomach acids. The pill is so strongly bound up, it can’t be torn apart.
Buildup of binders and fillers in the body can eventually become toxic to the person. They are listed as inactive, which basically means they don’t hinder the action of the active ingredient(s). The effects of buildup of these inactive ingredients have been researched more in recent years.
Researchers found that they created symptoms related to:
- Allergies
- Toxic Liver Loads
- Lymph Congestion
- Digestive Problems
As a general rule however, avoiding binders or fillers can insure that the pill can be broken down as easily as possible and that no sensitivities to the product occur.