I have a cabinet full of supplements, from fish oils to CoQ10. In the past, I was never big on taking supplements or pills of any kind. But it wasn’t until I found out how effective the supplements were for my health, that I took them more regularly.

My favorite is CoQ10 as it’s not only good for your gums, it’s also good for your skin. Another great supplement is fish oils. They provide Omega 3 fatty acids are great for health and beauty (skin).

The best place to get both CoQ10 and fish oils is at Costco. The fish oils are a great deal at $10 for 400 softgels of 1,000 mg.

Other supplements I take daily is Jarrows Bone-Up. It’s a multivitamin which has calcium, vitamin C and D3 as well as other good stuff for young women.

Senator John McCain has introduced the “Dietary Supplement Safety Act”. If passed, it will drive up the cost of dietary supplements and restrict your access to them.

We need to make sure supplements are within all of our reach. This act even has a misleading title to it too. I have emailed my representative about opposing this bill. Please take action by clicking here.

Just enter your zip code to contact your local representative. It’s simple and easy to do. Exercise your right to representation!

Highlighted below are some interesting points made by William Faloon of Life Extension:

“If this bill is passed, it will make it far easier for pharmaceutical companies to file use patents on what are now inexpensive dietary supplements and convert them into outrageously priced “drugs.” Just look at the cost of prescription drug fish oil that so many cardiologists are prescribing to their patients. It costs about seven times more than the same amount of EPA/DHA fish oil you can buy as a dietary supplement.

Just imagine if the FDA was given arbitrary power to ban omega-3 dietary supplements! Recall that in the early 1990s, the FDA declared that many of the supplements used today, including CoQ10, selenium, and chromium, were inherently dangerous. The public’s revolt against the FDA’s absurd proclamation led to passage of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) of 1994. This is the law that protects consumers’ rights to access low-cost dietary supplements. The Dietary Supplement Safety Act (DSSA) would largely eviscerate the protections afforded by DSHEA.”

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“Daily dose of fish oil ‘could help thousands with heart failure’ cut risk of death” - Read more here.

Update 5/1/2010: “To give you an idea of how much money is involved, just look at the cost of prescription drug fish oil sold under the trade name Lovaza®. A 30-day supply of Lovaza® sells for around $195.00. Consumers can obtain the same quantity of EPA/DHA fish oil for under $32.00 as a dietary supplement.

With the passage of the Medicare Prescription Drug Act and Health Care Reform Act, the federal government (that means you) pays outrageously inflated prices for fish oil prescriptions and other drugs.

The pharmaceutical industry heavily lobbied Congress to obligate Medicare to shell out full retail price for prescription drugs. In the case of prescription fish oil, taxpayers pay 500% more than what consumers pay for the same amount of fish oil as a dietary supplement.” - Life Extension