No deaths from any dietary supplements reported

With deaths attributed to prescription drugs continually on the rise, we were curious to see how the stats compare to treating dieases with diet and supplements instead. MegaVitamin Man and author Andrew W. Saul reports his findings in our guest blog – proving yet again how powerful food can be as medicine.

Dr. Andrew W. Saul

Not even one death was caused by any dietary supplement in 2013, according to the most recent information collected by the U.S. National Poison Data System.

The new 251-page annual report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers, published in the journal Clinical Toxicology (1), shows no deaths whatsoever from any dietary supplement.

Additionally, there were zero deaths from any amino acid or herbal product. This means no deaths at all from blue cohosh, echinacea, ginkgo biloba, ginseng, kava kava, St. John's wort, valerian, yohimbe, Asian medicines, ayurvedic medicines, or any other botanical. There were zero deaths from creatine, blue-green algae, glucosamine, chondroitin, melatonin, or any homeopathic remedy.

Furthermore, there were zero deaths from any dietary mineral supplement. This means there were no fatalities from calcium, magnesium, chromium, zinc, colloidal silver, selenium, iron, or multimineral supplements. Reported in the "Electrolyte and Mineral" category were two fatalities from the medical use of "Sodium and sodium salts." These are not dietary supplements.

The U.S. National Poison Data System is "the only comprehensive, near real-time, poisoning surveillance database in the United States. In 2013, poison professionals at the nation's 55 poison centers managed about 2.2 million human poison exposures, with children younger than 6 accounting for about half of all poison exposure cases."

No man, woman or child died from any nutritional supplement. Period.

If nutritional supplements are allegedly so "dangerous," as the FDA, the news media, and even some physicians still claim, then where are the bodies?

To find out more on how to treat yourself with therapeutic and preventative medicine, check out Andrew Saul's newest book, The Orthomolecular Treatment of Chronic Disease at www.basichealthpub.com or www.amazon.com.