Do rice flour fillers and gelatin capsules interfere with supplement / vitamin absorption?!
Question: Yes, they do create a problem for absorption. Gelatin, when dissolved, coats the substrate preventing absorption by up to 50%.
Additionally, the rice flours used by most vitamin companies are most likely not organically grown and contain a lot of pesticide residues. Ask yourself, "why do they need a filler in a capsule of nutrients?" They could make the capsule smaller or put more nutrients in. The typical answer to this is that they are putting it in to preserve the ingredients or make it look like you are getting more bang for the buck. A good example of this is to purchase a bottle of Oleuropin that comes from olive leaf extract. Open the capsule and smell the ingredients. They should smell fresh and clean, but after about 2 months on a shelf, they will have deteriorated to the point where potency is greatly diminished and the smell will be pungent from the deteriorated product. This is why, even so called natural products, contain lots of synthetic chemical activators (called synthetic vitamins) that are not from once living sources that damage your DNA.
Animal-based organ and glandular products (FROM COMMERCIAL ANIMALS FED GRAIN IN FEED LOTS) carry the risk of infectious prion contamination exposure as well as a A GREATLY INCREASED BURDEN on the kidney and liver to metabolize them.
Great concern and fear over "mad cow" disease, which causes spongiform encephalopathy in humans, has now been reported in animals around the world, including the U.S. Recently, mass animal exterminations have been carried out in numerous locations worldwide in an attempt to curtail outbreaks of the disease. In the U.S., the USDA ordered mass exterminations on two sheep farms in Vermont (March, 2001) for fear of spread of the disease to other animals and humans. Products made with constituents from commercial animals (such as as organs and glands) now carry the risk of contaminations with toxic prions (infective particles which transmit the disease). Due to the widespread risk of prion contamination in commercial animals, the wisest advice is to avoid nutritional products made with constituents from commercial animals (including beef, sheep and pork). This means avoiding gelatin capsules made from hooves and bones of commercial animals.
When a product containing isolated vitamin and mineral nutrients is taken long term, it may induce side effects that are difficult to identify and correct.
A person taking a formula with isolated vitamins and minerals may receive help at first, but later may begin to react to the imbalance of too much of a specific mineral or vitamin. A good example of a toxic overload from taking isolated vitamin/mineral formulas is a prostate formula containing 15mg or more of zinc. It may be beneficial when taken during the first few weeks, but over time, zinc levels that have become too elevated may burden the body, imbalancing other mineral levels such as copper, triggering a cascade of new problems. You may not associate these new problems with a product that initially helped. Each mineral we ingest has an opposite mineral that must be eaten to balance the two in the body. If you get too much of one over the other, the imbalance happens. Zinc and copper have that relationship.
Most schooled nutritionists, doctors, drug companies, and pill manufacturers will not address this issue and this is why eating food is the best way to get nutrients or to buy nutrients that are in well adjusted complexes, not a single vitamin, especially avoid ALL synthetic vitamins for this reason.
Avoid ALL multi-vitamins as well. These are notorious for these imbalances. A good example of this is to look at the governments daily requirement (RDA) of vitamin C is 90 mg. for an adult over 19 years old. Now look at your typical multi-vitamin tablet, such as Centrum for Adults. It has 90 mg. in it. Your liver requires 3,000 mg. of vitamin C each day to carry on it's normal functions! To top it off, the vitamin C in that garbage is Ascorbic Acid, a single ingredient found in the C complex. Ascorbic Acid won't even cure scurvy. It's a chemical activator, not a vitamin that nourishes the body.
You need to look at what the body will absorb and utilize as a nutrient, not the garbage being added to so called "fortified foods" and chemical activators they typically put into the gelatin capsules. Just be thankful that your body only absorbs about 50% of that garbage in gelatin.
The whole reason to take nutrients in capsule or pill form is to improve our health and provide nutrients that are not in foods. You can be tested by a Certified Nutritional Therapist to determine what nutrients you are lacking and supplement your diet with those nutrients. The best thing is to get on a quality diet and I don't mean the typical American diet high in carbohydrates and low fat where 3 out of 4 are dying of heart disease. Look at the highly respected, author and vegetarian nutritionist Pavlov Areola that died at 62 of a stroke. Then look at cultures all over the world that eat high protein, moderate fat, and low carbohydrate diets that live very healthily and long lives.
good luck to you
Answers: Yes, they do create a problem for absorption. Gelatin, when dissolved, coats the substrate preventing absorption by up to 50%.
Additionally, the rice flours used by most vitamin companies are most likely not organically grown and contain a lot of pesticide residues. Ask yourself, "why do they need a filler in a capsule of nutrients?" They could make the capsule smaller or put more nutrients in. The typical answer to this is that they are putting it in to preserve the ingredients or make it look like you are getting more bang for the buck. A good example of this is to purchase a bottle of Oleuropin that comes from olive leaf extract. Open the capsule and smell the ingredients. They should smell fresh and clean, but after about 2 months on a shelf, they will have deteriorated to the point where potency is greatly diminished and the smell will be pungent from the deteriorated product. This is why, even so called natural products, contain lots of synthetic chemical activators (called synthetic vitamins) that are not from once living sources that damage your DNA.
Animal-based organ and glandular products (FROM COMMERCIAL ANIMALS FED GRAIN IN FEED LOTS) carry the risk of infectious prion contamination exposure as well as a A GREATLY INCREASED BURDEN on the kidney and liver to metabolize them.
Great concern and fear over "mad cow" disease, which causes spongiform encephalopathy in humans, has now been reported in animals around the world, including the U.S. Recently, mass animal exterminations have been carried out in numerous locations worldwide in an attempt to curtail outbreaks of the disease. In the U.S., the USDA ordered mass exterminations on two sheep farms in Vermont (March, 2001) for fear of spread of the disease to other animals and humans. Products made with constituents from commercial animals (such as as organs and glands) now carry the risk of contaminations with toxic prions (infective particles which transmit the disease). Due to the widespread risk of prion contamination in commercial animals, the wisest advice is to avoid nutritional products made with constituents from commercial animals (including beef, sheep and pork). This means avoiding gelatin capsules made from hooves and bones of commercial animals.
When a product containing isolated vitamin and mineral nutrients is taken long term, it may induce side effects that are difficult to identify and correct.
A person taking a formula with isolated vitamins and minerals may receive help at first, but later may begin to react to the imbalance of too much of a specific mineral or vitamin. A good example of a toxic overload from taking isolated vitamin/mineral formulas is a prostate formula containing 15mg or more of zinc. It may be beneficial when taken during the first few weeks, but over time, zinc levels that have become too elevated may burden the body, imbalancing other mineral levels such as copper, triggering a cascade of new problems. You may not associate these new problems with a product that initially helped. Each mineral we ingest has an opposite mineral that must be eaten to balance the two in the body. If you get too much of one over the other, the imbalance happens. Zinc and copper have that relationship.
Most schooled nutritionists, doctors, drug companies, and pill manufacturers will not address this issue and this is why eating food is the best way to get nutrients or to buy nutrients that are in well adjusted complexes, not a single vitamin, especially avoid ALL synthetic vitamins for this reason.
Avoid ALL multi-vitamins as well. These are notorious for these imbalances. A good example of this is to look at the governments daily requirement (RDA) of vitamin C is 90 mg. for an adult over 19 years old. Now look at your typical multi-vitamin tablet, such as Centrum for Adults. It has 90 mg. in it. Your liver requires 3,000 mg. of vitamin C each day to carry on it's normal functions! To top it off, the vitamin C in that garbage is Ascorbic Acid, a single ingredient found in the C complex. Ascorbic Acid won't even cure scurvy. It's a chemical activator, not a vitamin that nourishes the body.
You need to look at what the body will absorb and utilize as a nutrient, not the garbage being added to so called "fortified foods" and chemical activators they typically put into the gelatin capsules. Just be thankful that your body only absorbs about 50% of that garbage in gelatin.
The whole reason to take nutrients in capsule or pill form is to improve our health and provide nutrients that are not in foods. You can be tested by a Certified Nutritional Therapist to determine what nutrients you are lacking and supplement your diet with those nutrients. The best thing is to get on a quality diet and I don't mean the typical American diet high in carbohydrates and low fat where 3 out of 4 are dying of heart disease. Look at the highly respected, author and vegetarian nutritionist Pavlov Areola that died at 62 of a stroke. Then look at cultures all over the world that eat high protein, moderate fat, and low carbohydrate diets that live very healthily and long lives.
good luck to you
No.
Of course. What happens with gelatin caps is that they don't break down in the stomach quickly. If you are taking more than one at a time, they become glued together and the supplements are trapped inside, not able to be released until sometime later in the intestines (and sometimes not at all).
Vegetable capsules dissolve quickly, right in the stomach, and allows the body to absorb the supplement.
What happens when they use fillers (I'm assuming you're talking about tablets), in order to bind the minerals together, they put it under high pressure, which alters the supplement.
Besides all this, MOST of the supplement companies use magnesium sterate, which is harmful to your system.
For a good website that only uses grade 10 herbs, no binders, glues, fillers, etc., check out healthline.cc (not .com). They will just blow your mind with the information about the "junk" that's out there. I could go on forever, but I don't think I could do it justice.