How do I determine the best supplement?

In the late 1990’s, a panel of 12 Doctors, Scientists & Health
Professionals Headed up by Lyle McWilliams, determined a test called “The Blended Standard” that they embedded in the product rating methodology that is used in the guide.

It was published in his Comparative Guide to Nutritional Supplements. They were as follows...

•1. Completeness

Does the product contain the full spectrum of nutrients listed in the blended standard and considered essential for optimal health?

2. Potency

Of those nutrients in the product, what percentage are found at potency levels meeting or exceeding 50% of the potency for those nutrients in the Blended Standard?

•3. Bioavailability

Does the product contain minerals in their most bio-available forms as amino acid chelates or organic acid complexes?

•4. Bioavailability of Vit.E

Does the product contain only the natural biologically active form of alpha tocopherol or does the product use a synthetic form (where the biological activity is about ½ [or less] of the natural Vitamin E)?

•5. Cardiac Health Support

Does the product contain Vitamin E, Co-Enzyme Q10, and magnesium, the three nutritional components important to cardiac health?

•6. Homocysteine Support

Does the product contain the nutritional triad of vitamin B6, B12 and folic acid at levels that meet requirements for Optimal Health?

•7. Bone Health Complex
Does the product contain the nutrients shown by clinical studies to be important for optimal bone health?

•8. Anti-Oxidant Support
Does the product contain the important antioxidant triad of Vit.E, Vit.C and Beta-carotene?

•9. Glutathione Support
Does the product contain glutathione to help fight toxins created by metabolism?

•10. Metabolic Support

Does the product contain the nutrients necessary to help regulate glucose metabolism and support the body’s ability to generate, store and utilise energy?

•11. Flavonoids & Phenols
Does the product contain a mixture of bioflavonoids (protect cells against oxidative attack) and phenolic compounds (free radical protagonist)?

•12. Liprotropic Factors

Does the product contain the important lipotropic factors, choline and inositol (anti-inflammatory, anti-viral, anti-bacterial, anti-allergic, anti-haemorrhagic and immune enhancing agents)?

•13. Potential Toxicity
Does the nutritional supplement contain levels of Vitamin A and Iron that exceed 100% of the Blended Standard?

Below are two popular Australian brands that show very little nutritional value!

The iodine is not necessarily bad but it works like caffeine so you take the supplement, get a hit,and think it's working when it isn't really.

The brand that rated the top product was USANA Health Sciences.
It rated 73.3%, the nearest competitor was a clinicians brand from Natural Health Laboratories.
It rates at only 45.1%.

Remarkably this guide has become a bible to a lot of health professionals who find it hard to navigate through the maze of products available! If they find it hard...what about the consumer public. I can't see they have any hope of determining which is best?

In fact USANA was Ranked Number 1 Supplement in Australia & New Zealand

WHY?

BECAUSE IT IS -

►* Comprehensive,
* precisely balanced supplements

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* ►Broad-spectrum antioxidant protection

►* Nutrition for all generations
(has doses for adults, teenagers and children)

And simply said, that's the reason I recommend it to all my clients.
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