The Crazy, True And Scary Facts About The Supplement Industry.
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Ben Greenfield
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2014
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
In every drugstore aisle in America, shoppers cast the classic pose: two products in hand, confusion on their faces as they attempt to decipher the advertising claims and safety labels. It's an important decision, but it is so hard to be certain you're making the right call.
A new company called LabDoor buys dietary supplements and energy drinks off retail shelves and sites. Then, they send each product to an FDA-registered laboratory for a detailed chemical analysis. Their technical team then collects the laboratory results and builds algorithms to translate this data into simple grades and rankings.
The result is that you get to find out what's good, what's bad, and whether your protein powder, fish oil, vitamin D, energy drink or multivitamin actually contains what it says it contains, and whether it has any nasty contaminants.
In this episode with Neil Thanedar from Labdoor, you'll find out: -How supplement companies "cheat" when it comes to getting their products analyzed... -Why your protein powder may not actually have in it what it says it has in it... -The shocking truth about fish oil quality... -The one energy drink that is the biggest chemical cocktail in the supplement industry... -And much more!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Ben Greenfield Fitness.com Podcast. |
| 0:07.1 | We provide you with free exercise, nutrition, weight loss, triathlon and wellness advice |
| 0:13.0 | from the top fitness experts in the nation. |
| 0:15.9 | So whether you're an Iron Man triathlete or you're just trying to shed a few pounds, |
| 0:20.7 | get ready for non-runner-of-the-mill cutting edge content from Ben Greenfield Fitness.com. |
| 0:30.1 | Hey everybody, it's Ben Greenfield and I was just actually before we even began recording, |
| 0:44.0 | having a fascinating discussion with today's guest about how your protein powder |
| 0:49.9 | may not actually have in it what you think it has in it. |
| 0:54.8 | And while it may not be crushed up beetles and bugs unless you're using that brand new-fangled |
| 0:59.2 | cricket protein stuff, there may be some issues with your protein. |
| 1:03.4 | So before we even jump into Neil Thanadar, my guest's story and what it is that he does, |
| 1:11.1 | Neil, what's going on with protein powder, man? |
| 1:13.8 | All right, so there's something called amino acids fiking. |
| 1:17.1 | And so what you would expect when you see one of those fancy products on the shelf that you're |
| 1:22.7 | at your local subman store is 100% way protein isolate. |
| 1:27.2 | And what we're seeing is that a lot of products don't actually live up to those claims. |
| 1:32.3 | Many of them have maybe 30, 40, 50% protein and the rest of it are amino acids. |
| 1:39.2 | And so if you had a free amino acid like Torian or glycine or glutamine added to your product, |
| 1:44.6 | you're actually only getting in terms of a full spectrum of amino acids that you're really |
| 1:49.6 | need only 30 to 40% of what you think you're getting. |
| 1:52.5 | Is that because that's just like cheaper to make that way or is that just poor quality control? |
| 1:56.9 | So it's many times cheaper and it's actually due to a very interesting FDA loophole. |
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