March 22, 2018 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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| Alright, check this out. | |
| This is the final segment here on TalkNetwork.com talking about the U.S. Department of Justice criminal indictments against a couple of dietary supplement companies. | |
| One of the products that they targeted is called Oxy Elite Pro. | |
| And I'm on a law firm's website that I guess handles some of the consumer complaints against this product. | |
| This was made by a company called USP Labs. | |
| And USP Labs... | |
| Their executives are under criminal indictment now by the Department of Justice. | |
| And I have to applaud this action, by the way, even though, again, I'm very much pro-dietary supplement. | |
| I'm also pro-laboratory safety. | |
| I'm pro-GMP compliance. | |
| And I know that, you know, some of you might be surprised to hear that because I've been very critical of the FDA over the years. | |
| Well, yeah, I am critical of the FDA on their lax enforcement of dangerous drugs. | |
| There are a lot of dangerous pharmaceuticals out there, like statin drugs, right? | |
| They're more dangerous than OxyElite Pro. | |
| You know, statin drugs kill people. | |
| At the same time, it doesn't mean we should sit back and do nothing while these con artists sell... | |
| You know, crazy, dangerous products in the dietary supplement industry. | |
| We need safety across the board. | |
| We need safer medications. | |
| We need safer dietary supplements. | |
| So I'm a big proponent of consumer safety and just honesty, you know, honest labeling, honest laboratory tests, and so on. | |
| Anyway, this product, Oxy Elite Pro, it's a dietary, it's a fat-burning supplement, and And according to this lawyer website, until early 2013, OxyElite Pro contained DMAA, an illegal stimulant drug linked to cardiac arrest and death. | |
| After it was reformulated with more unapproved ingredients, it was linked to a deadly outbreak of liver damage. | |
| In February 2015, FDA lab tests detected the antidepressant Prozac in OxyElite Pro. | |
| Really? | |
| Prozac? | |
| Oh my god, you're going to throw SSRIs into a dietary supplement? | |
| That is some dangerous activity right there. | |
| So apparently this Oxy Elite Pro has been on the radar of the FDA and the FTC for a very long time. | |
| It looks like in 2014 they paid a $2 million settlement over a false advertising class action lawsuit. | |
| They paid out a bunch of money. | |
| There were multiple lawsuits involving multiple plaintiffs. | |
| Gosh, this history goes back many years where the FDA has been on their case. | |
| Gosh, in November of 2013, the FDA announced they would oversee the destruction of $22 million worth of OxyElite Pro. | |
| So I guess they raided the company and they destroyed the supplements. | |
| Wow. | |
| So you may think, well, this sounds like an all-out attack on the supplement industry. | |
| I disagree with that. | |
| Although the supplement industry is under attack in different ways, this action, this specific action, seems to be really targeting some of the worst offenders of the dietary supplement industry, at least from what I can tell so far. | |
| Maybe more information will come out on this that changes my picture, my opinion of it. | |
| But listen to this. | |
| This was from the Department of Justice today. | |
| The speech from the spokesperson said that like OxyElite Pro, new formula, it will generate millions of dollars in sales. | |
| They focused on Chinese chemical manufacturers when they found an ingredient they believed was promising, knowing full well how the market for dietary supplements worked, they doctored the packaging, the labeling, and other paperwork to defraud others about what the product was. | |
| Much of the alleged fraud focused on the defendant's claims that their products were made from natural plant extracts. | |
| The truth is that the stuff is completely 100% synthetic. | |
| Synthetics entered the United States. | |
| They got on store shelves. | |
| Again, this is the DOJ talking. | |
| They were purchased by consumers. | |
| The defendant falsified paperwork to stay off the radar of regulatory agencies. | |
| They made misrepresentations to convince well-known retailers. | |
| They falsified labeling and marketing material to convince consumers. | |
| Regulators, retailers and consumers and trusted defendants were telling the truth about their product. | |
| All these people were deceived. | |
| Deception puts lives at risk. | |
| The lack of safety testing undertook. | |
| Anyway, so on and so forth. | |
| Basically, if this is all true, they are describing a criminal network. | |
| That's the only way to say it. | |
| If what the DOJ is saying is true, And I won't know until I get my lab up and running with the HPLC. I'll be able to actually test these products and identify specific molecules at that time. | |
| But until then, I just have to take other people's word for it because that section of my lab isn't up and running yet. | |
| I can test heavy metals right now, and we do almost every day. | |
| But I can't test for Prozac or DMAA or whatever. | |
| Anyway, if this is true, it means that these people are just going to China... | |
| And finding whatever chemicals they wanted to buy, and you can buy them very cheaply from China, you just go onto Alibaba.com and you search for, you know, SSRI drugs, fluoxetine or whatever it's called, and you can buy that in bulk from China. | |
| Yep, you can. | |
| And I guess they were just blending this up and throwing it into pills and then slapping like herb names on the label or something. | |
| That's what it sounds like they were doing. | |
| Again, if the DOJ is correct, that's what it sounds like they were doing. | |
| If that's true, that is some crazy criminal behavior. | |
| That is so unethical and so dishonest, that obviously has got to be stopped. | |
| I mean, again, there's a criminal element in every industry on the planet. | |
| There's a criminal element in government. | |
| There's a criminal element in food manufacturing. | |
| There's a criminal element in the car industry. | |
| There's a criminal element in the dietary supplement industry. | |
| And this is the kind of stuff that we do have to crack down on. | |
| Now, what does it mean for you as a consumer? | |
| Because I want to give you good advice on how to make good, informed decisions. | |
| Number one, you need to know your sources. | |
| You need to buy supplements. | |
| If you buy them, if you take them, get them from reputable sources. | |
| Sources that you trust. | |
| Sources that believe in honest, ethical products. | |
| Sources that run laboratory testing. | |
| Sources that use their own products. | |
| Again, I hope you agree that that's what we do at the Natural News store. | |
| We're very, very meticulous about our quality and our laboratory testing and results. | |
| Secondly, beware of outrageously wild claims. | |
| There are many people out there who are marketing dietary supplements, and some of them I know personally, and some of them are making outrageous claims that even I completely disagree with their claims. | |
| And they have not been indicted yet. | |
| They have not even been warned by the FTC yet. | |
| Maybe they will. | |
| But they're making what I believe to be false and ridiculous claims about a lot of their products. | |
| And there are formulations that are sold with certain claims that are entirely unsubstantiated. | |
| It's just stuff that people threw together. | |
| They don't really have any lab testing to back up their claims. | |
| You know, they can say, well, this is detox. | |
| And frankly, by the way, I have a big, big issue with the detox industry more than any other sector. | |
| You know, detox is wildly overused. | |
| I've talked about the extremely high levels of lead in zeolites, the ultra-fine, ultra-powdered zeolites. | |
| I've published laboratory testing on that. | |
| Some of them are up to 60 parts per million lead and 30,000 parts per million aluminum. | |
| I think I'm the only one who's even published that data. | |
| I have an issue with zeolites. | |
| I have an issue with detox claims. | |
| I have an issue with people who say you've got to take their detox supplement every day and that anything that goes wrong with you, if you're vomiting or having diarrhea, that, oh, that's just the healing crisis. | |
| No, maybe it's not. | |
| Maybe those supplements are making you sick. | |
| Maybe that's the problem. | |
| I believe you shouldn't take supplements that make you feel horrible and call it a detox. | |
| I think that's ridiculous. | |
| I think if you take quality supplements and real food and real superfoods, they should make you feel well. | |
| They should support your nutrition. | |
| They should be things that are compatible with your body, not things that make your body want to purge. | |
| I mean, call me, you know, to me that's just common sense. | |
| I think a lot of the detox stuff out there is just way over the top, totally exaggerated claims, and dangerous to people, by the way. | |
| The other thing is, you've really got to watch out for certain companies, and I wish I could name them right now, but I don't have all my data together yet. | |
| I'm going to name some companies next year. | |
| I'm going to name a few companies that I think are engaged in the most dishonest marketing. | |
| This is from the raw food industry. | |
| The raw food sector of the dietary supplement industry, in my opinion, has – it is plagued by some of the most dishonest operators imaginable. | |
| And they make outrageous claims and they always use this lovey-dovey type of language. | |
| High vibration, man. | |
| You know, everything is so awesome. | |
| And if you really look at their products and their marketing, it's very misleading and very deceptive and very unethical in my opinion. | |
| So I'm going to name some companies. | |
| But I'm going to do it when I have all my lab data together. | |
| And unfortunately, it takes a long time to build a laboratory. | |
| And it just... | |
| I wish I had it done a year ago. | |
| It just takes time to build a laboratory and get the ISO accreditation and do the lab audits and do the lab training on every instrument and keep the log files. | |
| It just takes time. | |
| I don't know any way to do it faster. | |
| I'm going as fast as I can. | |
| My intention is that we will be the consumer reports of the dietary supplement industry. | |
| And I don't mean to say we're associated with consumer reports because we're not. | |
| But that's a valid comparison. | |
| That's my goal is to be something like consumer reports for foods and dietary supplements. | |
| Where we test and we release laboratory testing results and we help the public make informed decisions about what they want to consume. | |
| So we improve public safety. | |
| We improve public awareness. | |
| We improve... | |
| We reward companies that make great products. | |
| At the same time, we expose companies that make potentially dangerous products. | |
| And I would... | |
| Love it. | |
| If I live my life and I go to my grave one day knowing that I contributed that to society, to help people make better decisions and live in a more safe and nutritious way, that's a great goal and that's what I'm shooting for. | |
| Finally, remember that you should get most of your nutrition from real food. | |
| You know, you can't just pop pills as your diet. | |
| You need to eat real food, and you should grow your own food. | |
| That's why I invented the Food Rising Grow System and gave the plans away online. | |
| I want you to build your food systems. | |
| I want you to grow your own food. | |
| I want you to eat sprouts. | |
| I want you to eat leafy greens. | |
| I want you to drink clean water. | |
| I want you to grow your own food. | |
| Get most of your nutrition from food. | |
| Supplement it, if you need to, from dietary supplements and superfoods. | |
| But don't live off of junk food and think you can make up for it with pills. | |
| It just doesn't work that way. | |
| I'm going to tell you the truth on this stuff. | |
| I don't care if it means we sell less. | |
| I want you to be healthier no matter what. | |
| So grow your own food, get your nutrition from food primarily, and use supplements where you have deficiencies like vitamin D. High-quality magnesium, high-quality calcium, high-quality zinc, and so on. | |
| When your food lacks minerals, you need to supplement it. | |
| Well, thanks for listening. | |
| This is Mike Adams with TalkNetwork.com. | |
| Thank you for listening to this episode of the Health Ranger Report. | |
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