Greetings!
Eric Bakker, naturopath from New Zealand, author of Candida Crusher, formulator of the
CanXida range of dietary supplements.
Thanks for checking out my video.
Today, we're going to talk about and bust the myth on "Is magnesium stearate toxic for
your health?"
So, I like watching that program called Mythbusters.
Do you watch that sometimes where these two crazy guys blow up things and do insane things?
I reckon it's a pretty cool program.
I'm going to destroy a myth today about how some people believe that magnesium stearate
is poisonous and toxic and destroys your health and causes cancer and all this sort of crap
that I read online.
Stearic acid is actually a naturally occurring fat found in most fatty products.
All animal fats.
Coconut fat.
Cocoa fat.
If you're a person who's really worried to the point where you can't sleep at night because
there's magnesium stearate in a dietary supplement, then please also avoid anything with fat in
it.
All animal products.
Coconut fat.
Any kind of fat at all.
No chocolate anymore.
All that stuff's taken out because all of that will contain a kind of stearic acid in
it.
Stearic acid is the immediate precursor to oleic acid, which is found in coconut oil.
If you're having coconut oil, please stop it.
You'll die a horrible death.
If you're so petrified about mag.
stearate, you need to carefully think what you're petrified about.
Maybe you're getting hyped up by people who claim it is toxic based on stupid advice because
it is not a toxic thing at all.
Magnesium stearate found in dietary supplements is usually six to eight percent magnesium
oxide, so it is magnesium bound to stearic acid.
It's used as a lubricant.
I used to work a long time ago for a dietary supplement company in America with a crazy
guy who ran the show.
Absolute lunatic of a guy who came up with all these false claims.
He was one of the first people to spread this claim about mag.
stearate.
When I started to really research it carefully, I realized that this was a stupid claim to
make.
It was basically a claim that was perpetuated by a capsule manufacturer to try and annihilate
all of his competitors who made tablets.
This particular person started spreading rumors that mag.
stearate is toxic and poisonous.
Funny thing is this person was a huge wine drinker and had huge marital problems and
a lot of issues himself.
So, you be careful about what you hear online and why it's being spread.
It may actually be a load of crap.
As they say, "Be careful about reading health books because you may die of a misprint."
Don't believe everything you read online.
Mag.
stearate is a perfectly normal and easily degradable kind of fat in your digestive system.
Unless you�ve got cirrhosis of the liver and you're drinking a bottle of whiskey a
day, which I don't think you're doing, you may have issues with fats.
Stearate is required as a lubricant.
If we don't use stearate in tablets for example, we can't compress tablets properly, we can't
coat them, machines gum up.
They stick.
We can only put half as much in a tablet, which means you've got to take twice as many
tablets at a higher cost with a less effectiveness.
If you think that stearates are toxic, then please tell me right now that you're only
going to eat rice and nothing but rice because everything else has got some kind of fat in
it.
Then you can bet your bottom dollar there will be some type of stearic acid in any kind
of fatty product that you eat.
Please don't believe this kind of crap that you read online.
I wrote a big article, which I've often emailed out to people.
My CanXida tablet formulations contain magnesium stearate.
Stearate's been used in tablet manufacturing now for as long as tablets have been made.
Please don't let people tell you it's toxic.
The US Pharmacopeia has given it the GRAS rating, which is generally regarding as safe.
The GRAS rating is pretty darn hard to get hold of if something has got even the slightest
possibility of being toxic.
Any GNP manufacturer who works with very high manufacturing procedures will use mag.
stearates in a tablet formation.
Remember, it was a clever marketing ploy designed to assassinate anyone who sells tablets or
market tablets.
It's designed by a person who's anal about capsules.
The funny thing is the capsules the person was pushing at the time were bovine, so no
good for vegans.
You be careful about the kind of advice that you take from people.
As I say, please don't die of misprints if you read something that may not be the way
it should be.
Take care.
Thanks for tuning in.