People Against Synthetic Supplements (PASS)

Have you ever wanted to change something so much you would do anything to make it happen? That’s how I feel about synthetic vitamins. Do you take them? I used to, but not anymore. I got so worked up after I learned what they could do to a person that I started PASS.

Remember MADD?
I feel like a version of Candy Lightner, the mom who founded MADD in 1980. She was driven to it after a repeat drunk-driver killed her daughter, Cari. Candy started as one mother with a passion and clear mission to protect other moms from drunk drivers killing their child. Today MADD is recognized worldwide.

I want to do the same thing with PASS
Bring about awareness about the possible dangers of synthetic multi vitamins see here and here and offer people who care, an alternative that’s whole-food based instead of artificial and maybe even toxic.

Check your multivitamin bottle
Pull out your bottle of daily vitamins. Look at the label (if you’re like me you’ll need the magnifier) and see if you find any of these synthetic ingredients, e.g. Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C) (click here for many more).

Birth defects increase 400%
Did you know that in one study reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, 22,000 pregnant women were given synthetic supplements, and birth defects increased 400%? They had to halt the study.

Zoltan P. Rona, M.D., says that while a healthy person will not drop dead immediately after ingesting synthetic supplements, “the long-term consequences of continuous, daily intakes are potentially dangerous.” Reactions, he reports, include fatigue, memory loss, depression, insomnia and potential liver disorders.