If you missed the Dr. Oz Show for January 17th, 2012, this is your full recap. Today, Dr. Oz thinks your “miracle” weight-loss supplements could be deadly, because they’re being spiked with prescription drugs.
Are Your Supplements Spiked?
Supplements can easily be bought, even ones that have been recalled, that are laced with prescription drugs added.
50 million Americans take weight-loss supplements, and this has become an epidemic with sometimes 9/10 samples being tampered with.
Dr. Oz sampled some weight-loss supplements, and one came back with Ciprofloxacin which treats Anthrax.
A few more came back with Sibutramine, which is banned because it causes heart attacks, strokes, and seizures. When it was a prescription drug, one dose could do this, but these pills have unpredictable amounts in them.
Here are a few more that were found:
Fenfluramine or FenFen, which damages heart valves.
Ephedrine, the Epi pen, which can cause high blood pressure.
Propranolol which is a beta blocker which masks the symptoms.
Antidepressants
Diuretics
Drug Analogues – this makes it harder to see the drug. These have also never been tested on humans.
Who’s Spiking The Supplements?
Asia, mainly China is the worst place to find fake supplements. India, New Zealand, China and South America, send the ingredients to importers, who send it to manufacturers, that send to distributors, that put them out on the shelves.
Avoid anything that claims to be an alternative to a prescription.
Avoid supplements that are in a foreign language.
If you can’t find a company name, phone number, website, you don’t buy it.
If the pill doesn’t have markings on it.
Avoid miracle pills.
Three Nutrients That Protect You From Stress
Aging Eyes – eyes respond to food changes. Lutein 8mg in a multivitamin helps or you can also have kale, papaya, and eggs.
Aging Skin – zinc helps repair skin by giving it nutrition. Swiss and cheddar cheese, yogurt, oysters, shell fish, baked beans, or Zinc in 8 mg in the multivitamin.
Buildup of Toxins in Liver Glucosinolates benefits you, which are found in green foods, collard greens, cauliflower
Foods That Fight Off Fat
Dr. Jennifer Ashton, writer of Your Body Beautiful: Clockstopping Secrets to Staying Healthy, Strong, and Sexy in Your 30s, 40s, and Beyond has three tips for women, called the 5 day 2 day plan.
- For five days you have to be strict, and on the weekends you get to relax.
- Don’t eat white carbs – reach for brown and whole grains, like wheat berries.
- Add 2 protein body snacks a day. She recommends plant based protein shakes. Lifetime Life’s Basics Plant Protein, Vanilla, 18.6-Ounces Tub
- Power of purple foods. The more color the more antioxidants, all purple things are good.
- No packaged foods. Eat more from the farm than the factory.
Natural Beauty Products To Fight Stress
On a cellular level, dehydration, break outs, worry lines, can all be caused by stress. The best way to fix this is with all-natural, and healthy options for your skin. Here are three things you can find in your kitchen to use:
Hair Moisturizer/Body Moisturizer – 1 cup sunflower oil or coconut oil 1/2 tsp vanilla or lavender extract. She uses this right out of the shower, and puts some in her hair. It doesn’t leave it greasy and gets absorbed quickly.
Clarifying Mask – 1 tsp cumin, 1 tsp coriander, 3-5 drops of water, mix together and then wear as a paste on face/elbows/heals for 30 minutes.
Wrinkle-Fighting Cleanser – 1/2 tsp dry milk, pinch of sugar (more like 1 tbsp), 3 ground almonds, water.
You can get all of these and more in her book.