Comment · Sat, April 5, 2025 · ND Owner
NOW Foods supplements - not quality tested?
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nicj86 · 1 points
Today I spoke to a pharmacist that told me that Now Foods supplements are not quality tested by any health authorities so their supplements can contain 0% of the active ingredients. How true is this? I’ve used them for a while and they seem to be fine
What they were answering
snAp5 · 1 points
Plenty. Thorne, Pure Encapsulations, Designs For Health, Renue By Science…list goes on
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · ND Owner
Thorne was recently sold to LVMH (Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy), and they fired all their science and R&D team. Today's Thorne is not the one people came to trust.
Pure Encapsulations is now owned by Nestle. I wouldn't trust anything that Nestle owned, and even if I did, I would not support that piece of shit company.
Designs for Health I don't really know much about. I don't think we have tested anything from them yet. I can certainly get some and see. I also found this below.
https://quackwatch.org/misc/dfh/
Those issues seem to be more legal, regulatory, and efficacy related, though.
Renue By Science is one of the brands selling fake liposomes. Zero scientific validation has even been done to prove they are liposomes, much less increase bioavailability. We also analyzed some of their stuff in the lab on a Malveryn NanoSight system, and the particles sizes were nowhere even close to being what a liposome would be. Also, that's just what we could get to dissolve. Most of it wouldn't even go into solution to even be able to be injected in the machine. The stuff that did was an order of magnitude larger than the 100micron level that liposomes should be.