How Much Can Health and Vitamin Supplements Effect Your Aging Process

by Brett Seagrott

The nutritional supplement industry has created an enormous market playing, in part, on consumers fears. As a result of a widespread increase in the publics dietary knowledge, there has been a rapidly increasing demand in the use of nutritional supplements as a form of preventative health-care and protection from serious disease.

Health orientated people are reasonably knowledgeable about the shocking statistics for degenerative disease, most notably cancer, diabetes and heart disease, all linked to nutritional intake. This has been a major factor for the increasing use worldwide of multi ingredient health supporting nutritional supplements.

The majority of our food (around 90 %) is processed ” full of additives and chemicals! Modern lifestyles are exposing us to non-stop exposure to dietary / environmental toxins and stressors. The undeniable effect has seen a speeding up of our aging process which has been shown as a pre-condition for a gradual descent into degenerative disease.

Rather than substantially improving dietary intake and doing away with health busting lifestyle choices such as smoking and excessive alcohol intake, the majority of people are (still) looking for a kind of magic pill or bullet which makes it possible to keep eating near useless, nutritionally devoid, but delicious, processed food (while staying clear of any major disease or chronic illness!)

Unfortunately the amount of manipulated facts, straight-out dishonesty and beefed up product claims for health nutritional supplements is nothing short of scandalous. Careful wording and misleading studies / mis-leading statistics in sophisticated presentations, manipulate people into believing their need for a given company’s products is far greater than it really is.

Unfortunately the extent of mistruths and ’souped-up’ product claims for health and vitamin nutritional supplements is nothing short of disgusting! Professional marketing spin along with mis-leading statistics in highly sophisticated presentations, are able to lead consumers into the purchasing decisions which the manufacturers want.

It appears to be generally accepted that all those premium grade nutritional health supplements from large, well known (and popular) supplement brands are all ‘roughly equal’ and are essentially the most effective supplements in the market In reality this is far from the truth.

These large, powerful companies have the financial power to build (perceived) high credibility and for cleverly presenting their manipulations of the truth. While a great deal of the underlying scientific basis supporting their supplements is real, it is what they are holding back which is the real issue These are facts exposing deficiencies in their product’s effectiveness.

I worked in the nutritional supplement industry for a specialty supplement company and discovered what really goes on behind the scenes. The knowledge gained from this experience means I know all their secrets.

99% of vitamin and health based nutritional supplements have major weaknesses preventing them from achieving, to a highly effective degree, their published health claims. These are facts which the companies have hidden from their customers for years. The publics’ lack of extensive knowledge of nutritional science , allows the manufacturers of market leading supplement brands to grossly exaggerate their capabilities.

Let me highlight once more that the kind of supplements I’m talking about are those marketed as premium level, multi ingredient nutritional supplements. That is, high quality supplements with science-based formulas providing total nutritional balance using a very broad spectrum of ingredients from ALL nutrient categories (vitamins, enzymes, antioxidants, amino acids, ,etc)

At the most basic level these supplements top up any minor or borderline nutrient deficiencies, just as the cheaper multivitamins do but then they go on to do far more by offering powerful anti aging benefits which can slow / normalize your aging and optimize your health to provide heightened nutritional support which prevents the onset of degenerative disease.

A) Truly do what they say they will (to an effective and significant extent)

A) Achieve what they say they will (to a highly effective extent)

B) Offer high value for money

Now, from a legal point of view, all these leading supplements can be said to provide these health benefits, ‘to some degree’, but the sixty four million dollar question is: to what extent? This of course is the part the manufacturers play around with through their marketing spin and clever presentations!

So, to say it as simply as possible, to slow / normalize your aging you absolutely need to focus on treating and reducing the causes of aging! Simple enough right?

So, basically stated, to slow and normalize the aging process you must focus on addressing and treating the causes of aging!

But this is ultimately where almost all supplement fail! There isn’t just a single cause of aging- there are four of them and it’s critical to understand that they are all interrelated!

So, now we come to the heart of the anti aging supplement claims:

Now, here’s the crux of these anti aging supplement claims:

Here They Are:

* Free radicals

* Glycation

* Methylation

* Glycation

Each is scientifically established as creating the pre-conditions for the onset of degenerative disease! Therefore, you can only be successful with your anti aging program if you address each one simultaneously on a continuing basis.

The complex task of normalizing premature aging requires a number of very specialized ingredients, some of which are rarely used due to their high cost as well as their need for protection while passing through the acidic environment of the stomach. To evaluate the efficacy of nutritional supplements with anti aging claims, we simply need to look at the names of all these special key ingredients and then look at the level of their inclusion in any supplement formula.

To gauge the true efficacy of multi ingredient nutritional health supplement formulas (those marketing themselves as premium supplements), we must firstly see the names of these specialized anti aging ingredients before checking a supplement formula to see to what extent they have been included (if at all!)

What you will discover however is that practically all those famous and well know leading health and vitamin nutritional supplements have weak formulas which can target only one of the four primary causes of aging. (The reduction of free radicals with antioxidants.) This is the reason why they simply cannot meet their anti aging benefits claims to any real, let alone effective, degree.

So, here’s the next obvious question: – are there any anti aging nutritional supplements out there containing all the necessary ingredients, including the specialized ones, to treat all four causes of aging at the same time? The short answer is ‘YES’!

The information you need is all laid out on my ‘best vitamin supplements’ comparisons and reviews page over at nutritional-supplement-truths.com

Good Health Always

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