Supplements, Reading Labels, CGMP, Third-Party, and More:

Jared St. Clair, a seasoned health expert with 30 years of experience, discussed his journey from local radio to podcasting and his family's 48-year-old supplement store, Vitality Nutrition. He emphasized the importance of education in supplementation, advocating for high-quality, third-party tested products. Jared highlighted his "vital five" supplements: magnesium, omega-3s, a great multivitamin, probiotics, and D-mannose. He criticized mass-produced supplements for their low quality and stressed the need for consumers to be informed and cautious. Jared also mentioned the challenges of maintaining product integrity in a competitive market, particularly on platforms like Amazon.

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Your Co-Host Today:

Jared St. Clair is an herbalist and expert natural supplement formulator with over 30 years of hands-on experience running Vitality Nutrition, a well-known health store in Utah. He’s known for his “Vital

5” essential supplements and has crafted highly effective formulas and protocols for health concerns, from digestive issues and hormone imbalances to immune support and emotional wellness. As the host

of the Vitality Radio Podcast, Jared educates listeners on mastering natural supplements to thrive without pharmaceuticals, making him a leading voice in holistic health.

Today’s Top 3 Takeaways:

The necessity to research and make informed decisions about proper supplements.
Vital Five: essential supplements for most adults: magnesium, omega-3s, a great multivitamin, probiotics, and D-mannose.
Understanding the DSHEA, Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act and its impct on the supplement industry.

Today’s Guest Co-Host Links:

Mentioned Influencers:

NCBI - High perfomance liquid chromatography in pharmaceutical analyses -https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15629016/
FDA - Facts About the Current Good Manufacturing Practice (CGMP) -https://www.fda.gov/drugs/pharmaceutical-quality-resources/facts-about-current-good-manufacturing-practice-cgmp

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Timestamped Show Notes:

11:40 – It got to the point before I bought the store, when I was 22 years old, I'd managed it from 15 to 22 and in that timeframe, we finally started to actually turn a profit. But the essentially, most of that money was either going back into the store to try and keep it humming and by the time I was a little bit older, my parents finally gave me a living wage.

21:45 – So part of my Vital Five is magnesium. The deficiency of magnesium is crazy, and I have my preferred version of magnesium, which is bisglycinate. For most people, omega 3's, unless you are doing what you need to do in your diet to get enough omega threes, wild caught Alaskan salmon, grass fed beef. It's actually a great place to get omega 3's. There's few things like that, but they're fairly tough to get enough of, and most people, not you, because of the way you're choosing to eat, are getting a load of omega six fatty acids from all the vegetable oils and seed oils and things like that. So our ratios are way off. So omega three makes a lot of sense for those reasons. And then a great multivitamin. I always preface multivitamin with great, because most multivitamins are not great.

33:08 – Essentially, structure function means you can point to the area of the body that where the structure is that you're trying to treat and the optimized function of that area of the body, but you can't point towards anything that would be considered a disease claim.

41:50 – CGMP is a certification that is essentially a partnership between FDA and the industry, which is a weird partnership, because it's kind of an adversarial thing too. CGMP is good manufacturing practices certified. And then there's companies that will actually inspect based on that, like NSF and some of these other companies.

50:45 – Many of these larger companies are big enough and they're too big to fail, so to speak, kind of like the old bank crashes. They'll follow the standards. What they do, though, is they cheat on other areas. They cheat on the marketing of it, and they start to deteriorate the quality of the formula without necessarily lying about what's in the product, but taking advantage of an uninformed consumer and putting lower quality versions of those things in the product. So usually the product gets worse, but they're still CGMP because CGMP is just the process of how you make it. Pfizer is making Centrum with CGMP, and they're still passing the test, but they're putting the very lowest quality vitamins and minerals they possibly can put in the product, because they're looking to make mazimum profit.

01:00:30 – Final Words

Our Final Words of the Show:

But I think what it really boils down to is this in America, especially in other countries as well, but I think in America, it's almost a little more uniquely an American issue. We've been trained to turn our health care over to a so called expert, and often at times, that guy is in a white coat and has a degree, and we think, and I'm not just picking on MDs, but chiropractors, functional medicine, doctors, guys like me, guys like Vinnie,, you listen and you're like, man, that guy's really smart. I'm gonna believe him and I'm gonna do what he says. I don't think that's wise, no matter who you're listening to. Ultimately, your health is your responsibility, and if you've got kids, their health is your responsibility, and it behooves you to get educated yourself now you use resources like me and Vinnie and so many other great resources out there. There's some awesome ones. Find people that you trust and research through those avenues, for sure, but ultimately trusting any one source for your health education, I think is a mistake.

You've got to to test the market and look at who's out there and what they're saying and because you're getting competing messages for sure, and know what their biases are. I'm very open about mine. I'm a supplement guy. I sell supplements for a living, and so know that when you're talking to me in the back of my head, I'm sure, whether it's conscious or subconscious, I'm hoping you're going to buy something from me, and that's kind of the case. That's what capitalism is, I guess, right? But ultimately, don't just take the prescription that the doctor prescribes and assume that he knows what he's doing and that what that and that prescription is in your best interest. Don't just buy the product that the influencer is telling you is the product that he uses, and just assume that it's good. Because of that, be your own boss of your health. If you do that, I think you get the best results and and you create a level of confidence for yourself to where you're able to make those decisions moving forward. As you start getting the results, you're proving that point.

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