I wanted to pass along some important information I recently learn that can make a difference in your recovery efforts.
Buying your supplements from the right place can be as important as matching the supplements to your condition and taking the right amount.
Sadly, I’ve learned that not all supplement sellers are legitimate. There are people who sell fake supplements on reputable online platforms like Amazon.com.
While it’s one of my favorite shopping websites, Amazon does not validate the authenticity of every seller and/or product sold through its website. It can’t.
Amazon’s anti-counterfeiting policy states they will terminate a company’s selling privileges if they determine their products were illegally manufactured. But how do they determine this? They rely on other people to report them. Only then will they take them off the site.
Otherwise, Amazon does not police their sellers or try to determine in advance if the goods they are selling are legit. While many suppliers do sell legitimate products on Amazon, how do you know which ones are real and which are not?
Without sending them to a lab for analysis, you can’t.
What about user reviews?
While user ratings would seem like a good safeguard of authenticity, they’re not. Amazon has a policy of assigning the same high-star rating to all the products it believes are identical to any original manufacturer’s products that have received a high-star rating from actual users.
And be particularly cautious if supplements are priced below market prices. Some counterfeiters lure customers in by offering savings.
It is very important to buy your supplements from trusted sources. This way, if the supplement did not work for you, you can rest assured it was not because it was a fake.
My solution
First stop buying supplements from Amazon or Ebay.
It is best to purchased your supplements directly from the manufacturer. However, it is time consuming to go to each individual company and some manufacturers don’t sell directly to the public.
Here’s the solution I came up with after asking my health practitioner colleagues what they do?
Their solution was to use supplement dispensary that purchases all their supplements directly from the makers of those products and never middlemen supplier. And sells directly to customers.
The dispensary they recommend was called Full Script.
I’ve been using it with my clients and I love it. I can put all their supplement recommendations with instructions in one place for easy purchase.
The prices on Full Script are equal to Amazon’s, so there’s no price premium for guaranteed authenticity.
Another cool feature
I love that Full Script lets me create supplement plans for my clients, but it also allows me to create supplement categories of favorite supplements for the conditions I use them for.
If you want to learn what supplements I suggest for SIBO, candida, h. pylori, parasites, leaky gut and adrenal fatigue, you can check out my recommendations here. It does require you to create a Full Script account first.
You are free to purchase those supplements, but I suggest you take them under the guidance of a health care practitioner.
The supplements I recommend contain no sketchy ingredients that can irritate the gut. Some examples of this are maltodextrin (derived from corn), carageenan and sugar alcohols. These are common ingredients in supplements that can cause reactions.
Featured supplement
One of the supplements you’ll see under multiple category recommendation is NAC.
Short for N-Acetyl Cysteine, this amazing amino acid has many important benefits.
It offers amazing detoxification supporting to the liver, while also breaking up the biofilms that form around over growth and make them resistant to treatment. If you are having trouble with eradicating gut bugs, it’s a good idea to start breaking up biofilms.
Biofilms are created by bacterial or fungal populations to help them hide from natural or pharmaceutical antibioitics. Bioflims may be the reason why a two-week course of triple therapy antibiotics often does not wipe out an h.pylori infection.
NAC breaks through the biofilm shield, exposing the bugs underneath to eradication. NAC is effective in inhibiting biofilm formation and destroying developed biofilms.
Another side benefit of NAC is it helps the liver process alcohol and can prevent or greatly reduce a hangover, if taken right.
I use NAC in the rare instances I drink alcohol because my body so sensitive to it, but the NAC supplementation prevents any suffering the next day.
Shipping
One of the great benefits of Amazon, especially for Prime members, is the free shipping. Fullscript also offers free shipping on orders over $50.
While knowing what supplements to take is an important part of the recovery process, professional guidance will tailor the amounts and frequency to your unique body and situation.
I offer discovery sessions , where I tailor the supplement program to your needs and health history. You can buy and schedule a session on this page.
Regardless of whether you use my services or not, I wanted you at least to have a safe place to buy supplements.
How it works.
This link will take you to the Fullscript dispensary homepage, where you create an account and get to my supplement checklists for SIBO, candida, h.pylori, leaky gut, parasites and adrenal fatigue.
These are the most common underlying issues I encounter in IBS sufferers.
Have questions?
Shoot me an email through the “contact me” tab on the sidebar of my website.
Learn more about Full Script here.