Re: Re: Question on supplements sources - VRP, Vitamin Shoppe

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Pam, do you buy Thorne from your ND or did you find somewhere to buy direct?

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Re: Question on supplements sources - VRP,

Vitamin Shoppe

I do a lot of my supplement shopping from The Vitamin Shoppe.

I'm a fan of Thorne. I also use KAL, Solgar and Source Naturals

regularly. Allergy Research, too (liquid molybdenum is good). I've

even bought Vitamin Shoppe's generic brand of cal/mag and potassium.

I haven't had a problem with any Vitamin Shoppe brand (yet), but I

tend to shy away from their brand since they often contain more

filler ingredients than I wish to use.

If you are using fish oils, Nordic Naturals have been very, very good

to me! If you are using flax, Barlean's is a quality product (great

liquid flax/borage). Both available at Vitamin Shoppe.

My advice is to avoid lots of fillers. It is a time consuming job to

read the labels, but worth it. If you are looking for a

multimineral/vitamin, watch out for hidden alpha lipoic acid in the

long list of 'extra' ingredients.

Good luck!

Pam

>

> Hi everyone,

>

> I need to stock up half a year to a year's worth of supplements as

> suggested by Cutler on pages 133 to 134.

>

> I know that not all supplements are created equal, and am

considering

> going with Vitamin Shoppe. As far as I know, the Life Extension

> Foundation and Thorne make the best. I suppose that there are

> fantasticly pure supplements at fantastic prices, and supplements

that

> are good at good prices, and I know that there are supplements that

> are pure trash, with a good deal of heavy metals.

>

> Does anyone have opinions about supplement sources mentioned above

or

> others?

>

> Thanks in advance,

>

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