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March 23, 2018 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Zeolite warning issued over high lead and aluminum levels
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In the interest of public safety, I've decided to go public with what I know about zeolites.
And my name is Mike Adams.
I'm the Health Ranger.
You are listening to the Health Ranger Report on TalkNetwork.com.
So thanks for tuning in.
And by the way, I'm going to reveal a lot here about zeolites.
Some of this will impact zeolite companies and zeolite resellers and so on.
Some people might not be happy about what I'm going to say.
Others might be thrilled.
So we'll see how it goes.
But I do find that every time that I... Publicly talk about findings from my laboratory that there are some people who don't like it and then they immediately try to attack it even though they have no clue what they're talking about.
So, I am the lab science director of the Natural News Forensic Food Lab.
Since late 2013, I have been running ICP-MS instrumentation, which is a mass spec instrument.
It's an Agilent 7700X, and it detects elements from the table of elements, of course, all the way down to single digit parts per billion, even sometimes under that for some elements.
So using this instrumentation, which I'm very, very familiar with now, you know, beyond expert level on this instrument, I can take any substance, practically, the leaf of a tree, blade of grass,
a cup of water, a superfood supplement, an oil, essential oil, fish oil, you name it, a piece of soil, human urine, hair, feces, blood, whatever, I can take any of these things and I can tell you With very high precision,
how it is, what composition it has in terms of elements, including a breakdown of magnesium, aluminum, zinc, nutritive elements, as well as toxic elements like lead, cadmium, arsenic, mercury, and so on.
Including elements that have radioactive isotopes such as strontium, cesium, uranium, iodine even.
Although the halogens are usually kind of difficult to work with.
We cannot detect fluorine, for example, using this instrument.
But we can detect all the other things with great precision.
So, you know, here's what you need to know.
And if you hear some background noise, it's because it's raining.
It's raining as I'm recording this.
So anyway, just some wonderful rain here in Texas.
What you need to know is that I've tested many, many different brands of Zeolite.
And that all of them, as a matter of composition, contain extremely high aluminum.
And that's because the very structure of zeolites is an aluminum silicate structure.
And because of this structure, it has some very positive properties, which I will talk about as well.
And those properties have a medicinal use or a life-saving use when used appropriately and when understood correctly.
They all contain very high aluminum, and they all contain very high levels of lead, which is a toxic heavy metal that causes mental retardation, bone, skeletal disorders, and can lead to many other problems, including, by the way, cancer.
So what does this all mean?
Well...
Let me explain this.
Zeolites are unique.
They are not an easily digested substance.
They're basically rocks.
There's, well, a certain special type of rock with a crystalline structure that is very, very good at absorbing or adsorbing certain types of elements.
And those include uranium, by the way, and cesium.
So zeolite is extremely good at binding with and adsorbing elements that are associated with nuclear fallout.
So cesium-137 is one of the radioactive isotopes that has been released from Fukushima and, of course, Chernobyl before that.
Cesium-137, which mimics potassium in biological pathways, has a half-life approaching about 30 years, so it persists in soils for 200 to 300 years.
And once you get cesium-137 into your body, you're essentially irradiating yourself from the inside, and that's why it's so deadly and fatal in many cases.
So zeolites are very good at absorbing these radioactive elements, and that's why we use it as a material in our emergency use supplement called cesium eliminator.
Zeolite is one of the ingredients in that supplement.
However, Zeolite has been heavily marketed and pushed by many, many people.
I would consider to be real charlatans in the space of natural health products or nutritional supplements because they don't think critically.
They run basically on hype.
They believe anything that someone tells them.
They don't check things out for themselves and they have no idea really what zeolites are good for and what they're not good for and how they work.
I have personally...
I've been part of a conversation, well I really spearheaded this conversation with one company that swore to me that they had a clinical trial that proved that their product removed heavy metals from the body, from the blood and tissues.
So I walked through with them, who is this company that has your clinical trial and where is the data set from this clinical trial?
What instrumentation did they use to analyze the blood that was drawn from the study subjects in the clinical trial and so on?
And it turns out that the entire trial was wholly fabricated.
It was completely made up.
There were no study subjects.
There were no test results.
There were no blood draws.
There was no instrumentation used whatsoever.
The whole thing was fabricated and yet they had been advertising on the internet in ads that their product would remove heavy metals from your body and your body's tissues.
It was a total fraud.
And I have seen this.
This is especially the case among people who promote detox type of supplements.
They tend to be more on the huckster side of things.
I'm not saying they're all bad.
Not all detox supplements are bad.
There are some that are very good.
But I tend to find that people who are very hype-ish and they're like, wow, this is the greatest thing I've ever seen!
It's like nothing like this ever in my life!
That they're pushing products that they have no idea really about.
They don't know the composition.
They don't run a lab.
They don't even think critically or scientifically or logically about any of these things.
A lot of the supplements that are sold to the raw vegans or the raw food people especially are based on total hype.
And some of those products are actually poisoning those people.
And it is true.
It is true that, not to say anything bad about raw vegans in particular, because most of them are really, really healthy and really great people, but I have noticed a higher incidence of insanity among the more extreme raw vegans than in the general population.
And I think this might be part of it, which is heavy metals poisoning.
So, and that's just a guess.
I don't have any data yet to back that up, so I'm clearly mentioning that that is a guess, that perhaps heavy metals are playing a role.
I think that deserves to be looked at.
So when it comes to zeolites, then some of these are really pushed by people who have no business talking about composition or supplement safety at all.
And this is...
Well, let me say it this way.
Yes, there's high lead and there's high aluminum in the product.
However, zeolites are not easily digested and broken down by human gastric acid.
Now, I built a digestion simulator in my lab.
I know how to create assimilated gastric acid.
It's a very simple formula.
And it turns out it's a very weak acid compared to the other acids that we use in the laboratory, which typically include nitric acid.
And sometimes we use other stronger acids if we're digesting very difficult items for laboratory analysis.
Well, gastric acid is very, very weak in terms of these acids.
And if you take zeolites, and let's say they're in granular form, then you will not digest them.
Okay?
Your body will not digest and break down the elemental structure of a zeolite grain or granular material.
It simply isn't strong enough to do that.
So what actually happens is the zeolite goes into your digestive tract and then gets carried out in the fecal matter after it has absorbed and bonded with other elements that are in your digestive tract at the same time.
So zeolites have a very important and positive function.
In, for example, binding with dietary cesium-137, if you have eaten, for example, food grown near Chernobyl or Fukushima, then that food, if it is itself contaminated with cesium-137, Which would make it radioactive by the way, of course.
Then you could eat some of this zeolite at the same time and you could thereby potentially protect yourself from some of these radioactive elements that you have eaten in the plants that were contaminated by cesium.
So this makes sense.
You're not actually absorbing the lead and the aluminum that is in the zeolite.
What you're doing is you're passing it through your body.
It's a pass-through.
So that's how it would work if it were granular.
However, the problem that I see in the zeolite industry is everybody is trying to, quote, micronize it so they grind it up into smaller and smaller sizes, a very fine grain.
And the idea is that they want it to go through your bloodstream or through your intestinal wall and enter your bloodstream, and they say then the zeolite pulls heavy metals out of your tissues and organs.
This, I have...
Number one, the smaller you grind up the zeolite, the more aluminum and lead you release.
Because you are now creating essentially free aluminum and free lead that is no longer bound to the crystalline structure of the zeolite molecule.
When you eat that, that can be absorbed into the bloodstream as aluminum or as lead.
So in my opinion, and I'm sure somebody will disagree with me on this, but, you know, let's compare your lab to my lab.
I've actually done the research on this.
In my opinion, zeolites should never be micronized.
And in my opinion...
When they are micronized, they vastly increase their release of aluminum and lead, both of which are toxic to human biology, and thus they could substantially raise the blood levels of lead and aluminum in your body from taking these micronized zeolite products.
So that's a big aha, and a lot of people, when I've said this to them, they say, wow, I've never understood it that way, but it makes instant sense.
And this really contradicts what they have been told about zeolites, which is that zeolites are always a net negative on heavy metals.
Well, that may not always be the case.
All right, so I'm going to continue this in Part 2.
Stay with me here.
This is the Health Ranger on the Health Ranger Report at TalkNetwork.com.
Alright, continuing with the Health Ranger report here on TalkNetwork.com, our special subject today is zeolites and the laboratory science behind zeolites.
So let's just summarize so far what I've covered.
Number one, all zeolites contain very high levels of aluminum and lead in their structure.
There is no such thing as a zeolite that doesn't contain high aluminum and lead, by the way.
Number two, that zeolites do have an important safety function.
They're very, very good at absorbing the radioactive isotopes of certain elements, such as cesium.
So in an emergency, in a nuclear fallout situation, you could take zeolites as part of a formula, and they could absorb cesium-137 that you might have in your water or your food, And then your body would naturally eliminate that through bowel movements, through fecal matter.
You'd be basically crapping out little zeolite rocks with the radioactive element in them, having been attached to them.
The third point is that when you micronize zeolites and create a very, very fine powder, you inadvertently create a very high level of free aluminum and free lead.
That can then be more easily absorbed.
In other words, it's released from the crystalline structure and it can be absorbed into the bloodstream when you take these in as a liquid or a solid supplement.
And thereby you could be raising blood levels of aluminum and lead, which I believe some people have done to the point of actually poisoning themselves inadvertently.
Some people go way too far on these detox supplements and they don't know what they're doing and they can end up damaging themselves.
Let's see, is that what we covered so far?
The fourth point is that a lot of the detox supplements are sold with a great degree of hype, and I think dishonesty, where it's this emotional appeal, you're going to clean yourself out, and a lot of hype type of language without any real scrutiny of the composition of the product.
Now I have been told, well, so that's the summary.
Now I have been told by people who use zeolites that they have been assured that these zeolites are totally clean, the cleanest on the planet, and that they contain no lead.
And I've also seen people in the supplement industry who don't know anything about lead contamination assure me that their product is low lead.
Because they sent it to a laboratory, and the laboratory doesn't know what they're doing either.
And I'll detail this in a second here.
And they send them back a lab report that says, it's all fine, it's below 10 parts per million.
So, first of all, where do I even begin on this?
If you have lead at 9.9 parts per million, you are poisoning yourself.
I won't sell a product with lead higher than 0.25 parts per million.
That's my limit.
And I'm looking for below 0.1 parts per million.
But these other companies are happy to sell it at up to 10 parts per million.
It turns out that the United States FDA has never really ruled on lead limitation.
To this day, they still have not.
And so what these people are basing their limits on is an old, long, outdated USP standard for a total combined concentration of heavy metals of 10 parts per million.
So you could have 5 parts per million of lead and 5 of cadmium, or 4.9 of cadmium, and that would put you at 9.9, and they say that's still okay.
Well, nonsense!
If you have 9 parts per million of mercury, you know, you're poisoning yourself, or lead, you're poisoning yourself.
It turns out that the United States is very far behind the curve on this and the EU is way ahead of the curve.
The EU has strict limits of lead levels in different foods and the level that's allowed by the EU varies depending on different foods.
Different beverages, different substances.
And it can be very, very low, like 0.1, or a little higher, like 2 parts per million.
But I don't believe the EU allows anything close to 10 parts per million.
That would be absurd, given what we know today about lead contamination.
So number one, keep in mind that the U.S. quote standard is a joke, right?
And then on the other extreme side, you have Prop 65 in California, which has a limit of, a ridiculously low limit of lead in foods, right?
Because that proposition was actually created to address clean water but they've misapplied the limits of water to food so they've created these ridiculous lead limitations on foods and supplements that really don't make any sense either.
So in America, you have at the federal level, you have a ridiculously lax standard for lead, which is essentially 10 parts per million, which would really be toxic.
And on the other extreme, you have California's Prop 65, which has a ridiculously low level of lead allowance that is too strict for many foods or supplements in particular.
Whereas the EU is more balanced on this point, and they have really a smarter system for this.
Now the second thing here that's important is And I'm not trying to make this too technical, but frankly, this is a technical subject, and most people in America, especially health food consumers, really lack technical knowledge on this, so that's why I'm sharing it with you.
The second point is that a lot of laboratories produce really bad lab results, and I've seen this firsthand because I've had to correct other labs that are, by the way, ISO-accredited, I've had to correct them so that their results would match my results, which are far more accurate, even though we're not yet accredited, although we're in the process of accreditation.
And why is this the case, you might ask?
number of reasons.
Number one, the instrumentation that they're using is outdated.
A lot of people are using ICP-OES, which is optical emissions spectroscopy instrumentation.
ICP-OES is orders of magnitude less sensitive than what I'm using, which is ICP-MS, or mass spectrometry instrumentation.
ICP stands for inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry instrumentation.
And it is orders of magnitude more sensitive than ICP-OES. Well, I see a lot of people in the industry that are sending their samples out to labs that are, number one, lazy, and number two, using ICP-OES, and number three, they tend to give customers the results they want.
Now, you might be shocked to hear this, but think about the pharmaceutical industry.
When they go out and they initiate clinical trials, which companies do they hire to do the clinical trials?
The answer is the companies that give them the results they want, right?
You know this is true in big pharma.
If you're going to test vaccines, you hire somebody that can tweak the data, fudge the data, whatever, twist the sample size to give you the results that you want.
That's what pharma does all day long.
Well, it turns out this also goes on in the supplements industry.
There are some labs out there that give people the results they want.
And I've gotten to the point where I wonder if they're doing any labs at all at some of these labs.
Are they making up these numbers?
Because I've actually done this myself to send samples out to other labs to confirm the tests that I run.
And one lab I remember...
Came back with a cadmium result that was one order of magnitude off of my own results.
You know, that's a big deal.
They're off by a factor of 10.
And so I contacted them and I said, I think your cadmium is wrong.
In fact, I'm sure of it.
Here's the actual cadmium number that I get through ICP-MS. And here are my RSD data sets and so on.
The raw count data, what's called CPS, counts per second up in the single-digit millions with a scan time of like 0.4.
It's very reliable data.
And I say to them, you know, your data's wrong.
Your data's wrong.
You need to check it out.
And they come back to me like a week later and they say, yep, you were right.
Our data was wrong.
Our calibration was off.
And we'll rerun it for you, they say.
I'm like, well, what's the point?
I'm the one that has the good data.
Why do you need to rerun your crappy data?
And then I wonder, how many other customers used that same lab and got bad data, but they had no idea that was the case?
So you could be getting data back from another laboratory.
If you're a food manufacturer or a supplement manufacturer, you could be getting data from another laboratory that is wildly off base.
Again, in this case, off by a factor of 10.
And you have no idea because you don't have a way to confirm that yourself.
So unless you're going to send it to two different labs, which is prohibitively expensive, then there's no way that you're going to be able to tell that any of this is accurate or not.
You see the problem here?
So a lot of people trust these labs when the labs are giving them bad data.
And this is one of the reasons that I built my own lab and I became proficient in laboratory analysis of foods and supplements, not only because I wanted to make sure that we sell pure, pristine, clean products at the natural news store, but also because I wanted to be able to do the test myself and not have to trust somebody else out there who I don't trust.
Now, most people don't go to that kind of length to accomplish this level of certainty that I'm interested in.
But that's just the way I am with these things.
So on the subject of zeolites, then, I built a digestion simulator with a simulated gastric acid, and I put the zeolites into this acid to see how they get digested in human biology, and it turns out they digest very, very poorly.
Which is good and bad.
The good side of that is that you're not going to break up the grains and absorb all the lead and aluminum in them.
The bad side is that a lot of these claims that say the zeolites go into your bloodstream I think are false when they're large particle size or possibly true when they're micronized but true with a bad result of giving you higher aluminum and higher lead.
So what we need to see here is we need a legitimate clinical trial that measures the blood concentrations of people who are willing to take micronized zeolites and find out if their blood levels of aluminum and lead are being raised or not.
I believe that that answer would be affirmative.
I think those levels would be significantly raised, and I think that would be to the detriment of that customer who's using that product.
So I'll be back with more.
Stay with me.
You're listening to the Health Ranger Report on TalkNetwork.com.
I'll be back with some positive uses for zeolites.
Stay with me.
Now, coming back on the subject of zeolites, I promised I would have some positive uses for you here, but first I want to cover this claim that is out there, one of the biggest claims in the detox industry.
Is that their product, whatever they're claiming, Zeolites or even Adia Clarity was one that I exposed as a big scam as well.
They're claiming that these products will pull heavy metals out of your body, which they're really saying out of your tissues, out of your organs.
So they're saying if you have lead in your bones or lead in your heart and you take their product that you could somehow get the lead out of your heart tissue or out of your bone tissue and effectively eliminate it through your urine by your kidneys filtering out your blood and I suppose filtering out the zeolites that have bound up some of these elements.
Well, I have never seen any research that shows that that's the case.
I think that the most likely intervention point for heavy metals is in the digestive tract, and there it makes a lot of sense.
That's where zeolites can be used to block or technically absorb radioactive elements, like I mentioned, that then get shuttled out of your body through bowel movements.
But this idea that things can go into your bloodstream and pull heavy metals, essentially chelate metals, out of your tissues is a very dubious concept.
There are intravenous chelations that are done with very powerful agents such as EDTA that do work.
And there's no question that those elements work, and they require someone who's very technically minded, someone who, you know, a proficient lab, and well, usually this is done by doctors, okay, or alternative medicine or complementary medicine doctors, and they do this what's called chelation therapy, and And there are different chemicals that they introduce into your bloodstream in order to accomplish this chelation.
And that works, by the way.
I'm not saying that that doesn't work.
That can be very, very effective at removing heavy metals from tissues.
But what I have not seen any compelling data on is this idea that you can take something orally That will then go through your intestinal walls into your bloodstream, grab heavy metals out of your tissues, and then get those eliminated from your body via urine.
That is not something I have seen some very poorly designed studies on zeolites that were conducted by total idiots who said they found that after a person took zeolites that they increased their aluminum elimination in urine by a huge factor, thereby proving that zeolites remove aluminum from the body.
Well, the obvious flaw in that study is that zeolites contain aluminum, and when they're micronized, they release free aluminum that goes into your blood, and therefore you're just peeing out the aluminum that was in the zeolite that you swallowed.
It's astonishing to me that someone would even publish a study like that and not understand the basic logic of it.
It's kind of like if you eat lead and then you pee lead, somehow they would claim that eating lead eliminates lead.
No, it's ridiculous.
You're just peeing out the poison that you took in.
That's not detox.
That's just eating and peeing out or crapping out the substance that your body is trying to get rid of, which you probably shouldn't have swallowed in the first place.
It's just astonishing to me that there are people in this industry who are just as crooked as those in the pharmaceutical or the vaccine industries or the GMO industries who will just completely ignore fundamental science principles or principles of biology so they can push their product.
And again, a lot of these people are concentrated in the realms of detox.
When you hear that word detox, you should have a big red flag go up in your mind where you should be asking very, very serious questions about, well, what is your evidence?
How do you know this works?
What is the composition of the product?
And far too often in today's industry, I've seen companies pushing so-called detox products that are really making people sick.
And because they're causing these symptoms of illness because of the composition of the detox products, and yet when people feel ill, they are told often by some of these manufacturers, well, no, that's just a healing crisis or that's a detox crisis.
That's part of the healing process, they're told.
Well, maybe that's true in some cases if you're fasting, for example.
If you're doing a water fast and you're pulling toxic elements out of your tissues and you feel bad for a few days, that's understandable.
But if you're drinking or eating something that is making you feel ill because its composition is somewhat toxic, that's not a healing crisis.
That's just self-poisoning.
You know, you can't just explain away everything by calling it a healing crisis.
And then, of course, the people feel better after it's passed, and they think, well, wow, I feel much better now.
I'm all detoxed.
Well, if that's true, then I could sell you a hammer and tell you to hit yourself on the head with a hammer so that you feel better when you stop.
And, you know, we'll call it the cure for migraines and just ship you a hammer.
You know, it doesn't make any sense, right?
I believe that if you're going to heal and you're going to detox, you should feel better.
From day one.
And your body is constantly detoxing itself every day with every meal with everything you eat.
You're constantly eliminating biological waste products.
That's why you're urinating and defecating hopefully every day.
You're exhaling.
You're sweating things out through your skin.
Your body is constantly detoxing.
You don't have to activate detox.
It's part of the natural cellular cycle of what's going on in your body.
With glutathione, for example, and respiration, the whole function of blood cells is not only to bring your body's cells oxygen, but also to carry away cellular waste products that are then processed by your liver or your kidneys, typically, usually, or your lungs for CO2, for example.
So you have to understand your body's detoxing all the time.
And the real answer to detox is not to take something that makes you feel horrible and sick and vomiting and having diarrhea and all that, but rather to eat healthy and make good food choices every single day, every single meal.
Drink clean water.
Don't put toxic skin care products on your skin.
You know, don't live in a city where you're sucking down toxic pollution in the air with every breath.
Don't eat GMOs.
Right?
Don't eat glyphosate.
Buy organic.
If you take nutritional supplements, make sure you know that they're clean.
Ask the company that makes them or sells them, have you done any lab testing on this?
I've seen facilities firsthand where people buy something in bulk, like a 25-kilogram bag of some spice or some herb, and then they have people sitting there labeling it organic.
Even though they're not certified organic and they sell them on Amazon.com.
I've actually seen that myself firsthand.
I'm shocked.
Like, wait a minute.
You're labeling this organic?
You don't have organic certification?
You don't have traceability of the supply line?
Where did this come from?
How do you know they're organic?
I've had other cases where I wanted to purchase large quantities of coffee from a South American country.
And I was told this is organic coffee.
And I said, great, we'd love to have organic coffee for our customers.
Show me your organic certs, which means your certifications.
And they couldn't come up with any organic certifications.
And you find this a lot in South America where people say it's organic.
Yeah, total organica.
No pesticides.
totally organic.
Si, organica.
Es todo organica.
Que es su problema.
You know?
But the truth is, It's been sprayed with DDT and every other chemical under the sun because they're all legal, it seems like, in South America.
So if you are not as much of a critical thinker as I am on this, you might be buying coffee that's labeled organic, but it's not.
It's loaded with pesticides.
Or you might be buying a detox product that's actually making you sick, that's loaded with lead or aluminum.
And I'm not trying to slam the zeolite makers out there.
Zeolite has a very important function.
Like I said, it can be very good at binding with radioactive elements during digestion.
And maybe it has a clinical use for eliminating radioactive elements from circulating blood, perhaps.
But that would be a clinical use in a very extreme situation with somebody who was being chronically poisoned with radioactive isotopes, who had perhaps drank a large quantity of water contaminated with cesium-137.
It doesn't mean that this should be an over-the-counter type of approach to just every day eating zeolite.
And this is my problem with the whole zeolite mythology, is that it's just been pushed so heavily as, this is going to detox you, this is super clean stuff, it's the greatest thing ever, you should drink it, you should eat it, you should put it in your smoothies.
You know, I think that's a huge mistake.
And I think a lot of people are being misled, and I think some people are being harmed.
Alright?
So that's my bottom line.
Again, I'm not saying it doesn't have a great use.
It does.
It does have a very important use.
But the hype is not backed by reality.
And if anybody challenges this, I've got the lab and I can reproduce everything I'm telling you here without any question whatsoever.
I can show you the truth about zeolites and gastric acid and zeolites, what they bind to, what they don't bind to, and so on.
For example, I know that zeolites are really poor at binding to aluminum.
And that's why even in my own supplement, which is emergency use only, it's called Cesium Eliminator, and the website is cesiumeliminator.com, I include with it a heavy metals defense formula that binds with the free lead and free aluminum that would be produced.
I don't use micronized zeolites in that formula.
And I clearly explain that this is for binding with cesium isotopes during digestion and that it has not been shown or proven to pull cesium out of your tissues like your heart or your lungs.
I clearly state that because I want to be very accurate with what I'm describing.
And that's why, by the way, virtually nobody buys that product because I tell the truth.
I think our sales are almost zero on that, which is fine.
I don't care.
I did the research because I was curious about this and I wanted to understand zeolites myself.
And I know that if there's a radioactive nuclear accident, then I would donate this product and help save many, many lives if I could.
So that's what I'm doing with it.
I'll be back after this break with the conclusion.
Now, with all of this said...
You're going to hear or probably see some people try to respond to this, try to criticize this, and there are going to be people out there in the supplements industry who don't like what I'm saying, and they're going to attack it, and they're going to say things like, well, Mike Adams' lab is not ISO accredited.
Well, number one, we're in the process of accreditation.
It's a two-year process.
We already have a quality manual, and our results have been proven accurate again and again and again with any outside lab having comparative results.
And secondly, these critics have no labs themselves.
These critics are totally illiterate.
About the subject of heavy metals analysis.
They wouldn't know their way around a lab if you offered them a million dollars.
They don't know how to run these instruments.
They don't even know much about the table of elements, frankly.
They don't understand any of this stuff.
So who are they to criticize?
Mostly they're hucksters and just salesmen.
They're just hawking their product because it makes them money.
They don't care what's in it.
They literally don't care what's in it.
If someone is harmed by it, who cares?
As long as they can sell more boxes.
I had one guy ask me when I said I was about to go public with the truth about the composition of his product and that it was toxic.
And one guy asked me, he said, well, will you delay your announcement for two weeks so we can do a two-for-one sale and blow this out the door?
And I couldn't believe it.
I couldn't believe it, but it demonstrated to me the total lack of ethics that I find in some sectors of this industry.
Now, I do want to be clear that most people in the natural health products industry and the supplements industry are very, very ethical people.
And they are providing products that help save many lives, in my experience, and help prevent diseases in many cases, even though they can't make those claims on their labels.
But the natural products industry serves a very important public health function in our society.
And I'm a big-time supporter of it.
People need access to vitamin C and medicinal herbs and superfoods like chlorella and astaxanthin and so on.
This is very important for our society, and there are products, companies out there that do a great job, like Gaia Herbs.
Super clean products.
Everything I've ever tested from Gaia has been very, very clean.
But the only reason I know that is because I'm looking and I'm doing the test and I'm not trusting.
I'm like Ronald Reagan, trust but verify, you know?
I verify.
I buy products off the shelf and I look at them Using the laboratory instrumentation.
And if there's anybody out there who thinks that they know more than I do about heavy metals testing in the lab, I dare you, I challenge you to, I don't know, a lab test-off or something.
Our results will stand up to anybody in the world, the best labs in the world, no question about it.
We know exactly what we're doing.
And it's been validated over and over and over again.
So what I'm telling you is based in physics.
These are not my opinions.
You notice I'm not here saying, well, I kind of think that this might be the case and maybe there's lead in it.
No.
These are the laws of physics.
And I've tested many, many types of zeolites.
They all have aluminum.
They all have lead.
Period.
There's no such thing as lead-free zeolite.
Period.
No such thing.
I've done the test over and over again, and I'm confident in our results.
Again, because they're based on the laws of physics.
So, unless you think that my Agilent 7700X instrument, which costs, by the time you get done doing everything to it that you need done, it's about a $300,000 instrument.
Unless you think that my instrument is engaged in a massive conspiracy theory against zeolites, if that's your theory, You know, then you're crazy.
But unless you think that's the case, then you've got to understand that we're producing accurate, reliable results here, and that's what this discussion is all based on.
And so, by the way, we are also expanding our laboratory, and I'm adding additional instrumentation to expand our ability to test for other molecules.
You know, ICP-MS is inorganic chemistry, but we're adding an entire section to the lab.
I actually have built a new lab, and it has a new section for organic chemistry.
So we'll be able to test via HPLC. Which is also an Agilent instrument, by the way.
We'll be able to test for various organic molecules, such as pesticides and herbicides and PCBs and BPA and vitamins.
And even things like iodine you can test with an HPLC, although you could also do that via ICP-MS. But we'll be able to test for more molecules.
And I've also purchased an instrument for testing the halogens, which includes the fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine, that column of the table of elements.
And that instrument is called an ion chromatograph instrument, or we just call it the IC. So the IC will let us test for fluoride concentrations in public water or iodine concentrations in iodine supplements.
And yeah, we're going to buy iodine supplements off the shelf and we're going to test them and we're going to see who's telling the truth on their labels and who isn't.
And that's being done in the public interest.
You know, don't you deserve the right to know what you're actually buying or taking in terms of supplements?
So we're using science for your benefit to bring transparency to the supplements and the superfoods and all the nutritional items that are being sold out there.
At the same time, we're going to be testing other off-the-shelf products like cereal products and grocery store processed foods and so on.
So we have a lot of testing ahead of us.
But I want you to know that we're doing this In the public interest so that you know what you're taking and eating.
And the takeaway from all of this is, number one, don't believe everything that you're told.
Don't believe the hype from a lot of these providers that are pushing products just because it makes them money.
Some of them are selling toxic stuff.
Some of them, most of them have no idea what is the composition of what they're selling.
Many of them don't care.
They just want to make money, but they might present themselves as being, oh, high spiritual this or that, or good positive vibe this or that.
You wouldn't believe how many hucksters I've seen playing this role of super good vibe guru, whatever, but underneath it all they're just charlatans, okay?
So you need to be on the alert for this.
Secondly, you can trust me on the lab results.
And you know how you can do that?
Because I'm publishing them publicly and you, if you wanted to, or anybody out there, could take the same product that I'm testing and you could send it to another lab and you would get probably the same results.
Or if you don't, it probably means that lab has screwed it up and you should try a different lab to get the right results.
Right?
So, what I'm doing is transparent.
And it is reproducible.
And I actually save the product that I'm testing so that if I'm ever challenged on that point and I have to retest the product again, I can reproduce the same results.
Right?
So, the reason you can trust me on this is because it's not my opinion.
It's the laws of physics.
This is the instrument producing this.
All you really have to trust is that I have good methodology.
Which is what the ISO accreditation is all about, and this is why soon we will be accredited with ISO 17025, which is laboratory validation.
And what it means is that we're following a methodology that produces consistently accurate results.
If I screw up my methodology, then yeah, I can have bad results.
But we put in place quality control checks.
I use a four-point external standards calibration curve.
I use mid-range, mid-run calibration checks.
I have, of course, the internal standards, the ISTDs running all the time with the run, as you have to do with Agilent instrumentation.
And we do actually a pre-run manual calibration check of the external standards to make sure that they're in the right ranges.
So we have multiple layers of quality control.
When I'm watching the run with the instrument, I know if something has gone wrong, if the plumbing has become clogged, for example, or if the sample cone, for example, has become clogged up with too much mineralization, what have you.
There are a number of things that can go wrong.
The rotation valve of the Niagara can get clogged, and that's one of the...
That's the input system that we use.
So there are a lot of things that can go wrong, but I know how to see them.
I know how to spot them.
So all you've got to do is trust that I am technically competent with running this instrumentation.
And I am.
I could walk into any university lab in America and I could run their ICP lab from day one.
No question about it.
I'm very capable of doing that.
So unless you think that I'm making all this up, Then I would advise you to take this seriously and take a new look at what you're eating and taking in terms of supplements.
Now the website where we publish a lot of these results is labs.naturalnews.com.
So check that out, labs.naturalnews.com.
You can see reports publicized on this on naturalnews.com.
And watch for new announcements of our expanded laboratory.
I can't wait to bring it to you and bring you more results and help you make better informed and safer choices about what you're eating in terms of groceries and fast food and nutritional supplements as well.
I want you to be safe.
I want you to not poison yourself.
I want you to understand exactly what you're taking and not taking and I want to make sure that you're purchasing products that are legit and that are not adulterated or contaminated.
That is my goal with this effort and I thank you for your support.
Finally, if you do want to support us more, You can purchase from our store, the Natural News store, at store.naturalnews.com, where everything we sell is tested in my lab.
Period.
No exceptions.
If we sell it, we test it.
Well, I should say, if we sell it and it's something that you use on your body.
Like, we don't test wool blankets in the lab, because that's not something you eat.
Hopefully, if you're chewing on wool blankets, then you might have other issues.
Nevertheless, everything we sell that you can eat or put on your skin, we test in the lab.
And by the way, we routinely reject raw materials that aren't meeting our standards.
For example, one time I ordered, I don't know, what was it, 5,000 pounds of pomegranate powder.
And when it arrived, I noticed that it was kind of a pinkish color instead of red, as it should be.
And I tasted it.
And the taste was too sweet.
And I immediately knew something was off.
I contacted the manufacturer, well, I had my staff do so, and it turns out that they had shipped a combination of like 50% maltodextrin and 50% pomegranate powder.
Now, a lot of people would have just said, well, let's find a way to sell it, you know, we paid for all this stuff, and it's...
You know, it tastes good.
We could just sell it.
But I said, no way.
I'm not going to sell maltodextrin.
Usually that's from genetically modified corn.
And I'm not going to sell, you know, a watered down pomegranate powder.
That's not what I ordered.
That's not what I want my customers to have.
So we returned it.
We had to pay a, you know, shipping fee, a restocking fee and everything.
And as a result, we don't have pomegranate powder.
So sometimes we actually have to send these products back and sometimes we take a hit on it financially.
Sometimes we quarantine raw materials, but we do all of this for you in the interest of quality and purity and so that the public knows they're getting an actual quality product from us in our store.
So if that sounds like something you'd like to support, definitely support us.
And I thank you for your support.
You can find it at store.naturalnews.com.
Take care.
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