James,

That is extremely scary stuff. I feel like you can not trust anything or anyone anymore. I hope and wish that Superfoods is 100% safe, but after reading that I am questioning its integrity. Nutritional yeast as stated in your article is very disturbing. I do not know what to think anymore, but to have faith in my decisions. I will look into this matter further and hope people have some answers.

I am working on getting a professional opinion on this and will provide in time. I don't like the fact that it is a competitor and he uses some nice misdirection and circular logic here without much else.

btw, Vitalerbs also contains NON-Active Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Nutritional Yeast
and while I have seen yeast sensitive people have issues with this Superfood ingredient - I have never seen anyone who is known to be sensitive to Mono-Sodium-Glutamat (Natrium Glutamat) actually have any problem with Superfood or Vitalerbs.

btw, http://superfood.andmuchmore.com is now carrying Vitalerbs @ $17.49 - which simply boggles my mind as retail is 30.

bobmantz.com

I've been aware of this debate (whether nutritional yeast is good or bad for you) for years. I was told that contemporary nutritional yeast is different in kind than the old Brewer's yeast I was given as a child -- that the yeast-promoting elements have been removed, and the nutrients remain. Who knows. I was also told that the Europeans feel more comfortable using nutritional yeast then we do. They don't worry as much about it increasing a yeast/Candida problem. They find that it is health promoting.

Meanwhile, I learned muscle-testing from taking an applied kinesiology class (hope I'm spelling that right) and learned how to use a pendulum. I use both those methods to determine whether a substance strengthens or weakens my system. Strangely enough, Dr. Schulze 's Superfood only checks out positively for me if I add more nutritional yeast to it. Otherwise, I get a bit unbalanced and irritable. So there you go. Different strokes for different folks.

For me this article lost power when the writer referred to The School of Natural Healing to be Dr. Schultz's, right at the beginning.

No matter what we choose to nourish our bodies there will be someone to say no way...

Sharon

My brother has the same feeling that many have had. There are folks who are known Mono-Sodium-Glutamat (Natrium Glutamat) sensitive not having an issue with Superfood or Brewer's yeast at all.

MSG is an isolated chemical; brewer's yeast while high in glutamate has many other amino acids in its profile prohibiting an unbalanced absorption of any single AA. In our brains we have AA transporters that act as a gateway to the CSF (brain fluid) aka the blood-brain barrier. These transporters have a staturation point where they are "booked" and cannot let more AA's in. That's why when you take melatonin (derivative of tryptophan) or tyrosine you need to not eat protein with them so that you keep all the transporters open to get the drug like effect. Once you eat other AA's you won't get the absorption necessary to produce a drug-like effect.

I still think the label 'yeast nutrient' is different from 'nutritional yeast' because items that would contain yeast nutrient are probably heavily processed while nutritional yeast (at least the brand that I have) is very minimally processed.

I asked Doc Fuhrman whether brewer's yeast could have a neurotoxic effect. He said unless I was eating ridiculous amounts of it by itself, he didn't see it as a problem as long as the brand I was getting didn't have a whole bunch of bulls*&t added to it. The brewer's yeast I get is from Lewis labs and its minimally processed and just brewer's yeast. Its also NON-fermentable. Superfood herbdoc.com and Vitalerb's http://devoted.to/drchristopher nutritional yeast, as you know, are minimally processed.

As I go through med-school I've learned that when people make statements they need to back it up in some way. That way you can understand their logic and make a decision as to whether you agree with them or not. For instance, flavor enhancers are not all bad. Mono-Sodium-Glutamat (Natrium Glutamat) is an unnatural isolate developed in a lab that has definite neurotoxicity (proven to destroy neural retinal cells). It was originally derived from a seaweed called Kombu that is used in traditional asian cooking as a flavor enhancer. I would have no reservations eating something "enhanced" with kombu, I would however, have issues with MSG. The end all be all is that if I sawsome proof or at least some sort of logic that was reasonable enough to demonstrate that a Lewis Lab's type nutritional yeast is neurotoxic I would stop. But I haven't and like you I was concerned about it and did some research on it and came to the conclusion that its fine. This could always change.

If you do come across some good logic or proof, feel free to send it my way. One last thing I have been using about 2.5 servings of Brewer's yeast almost everyday for around 3 years now. I have never had a side-effect (headaches, dizziness, confusion, etc...) after eating it OR any withdrawal effects when occasionally I would go off of it for a week or 2. You would figure that something that is neurotoxic would effect a sensitive person like me with side effects or at least some withdrawal symptoms when I would stop eating it.

Mike


http://www.bobmantz.com

I suspect the FDA will be shutting these folks down soon -- if they can find them.

They make statements such as their formula #2 "eliminates colon polyps". Another statement about their renal formula says: "This formula works 100% of the time, even when Antibiotics have failed."

Reputable nutriceutical companies understand what can and cannot be said without violating the law.

These folks are may be collecting all the cash they can before they vanish, one step ahead of the FDA. Or they could be uninformed.

Either way, buyer beware!

I'm seriously considering buying into the Dr Schulze program, as I've been using the #1 formula for awhile now. I am taking 5 #1's a night, with some success, and that seems like a lot, however. But, that's another story.

This caught my eye, and made me wonder if I should think and look further, before buying the Superfood, or going through his entire program.

Another question is if I'm at 5 #1's a day(and I'm thinking of 6), is this normal? I've seen quite a few other posts claiming they take far less. I know it varies, but I'll be going through bottles like wildfire at 6 a day. Might I be able to decrease my dosage, over time?

Thanks for any help.

Bill

I've been eating grass fed beef for many years now. I used to buy it in Claremont NH and Springfield VT, and I now buy it in NE Tennessee. It's very good quality meat. I definitely feel best when I eat animal proteins 3 times a day - meat, free range eggs, quality cheese, chicken with the skin (organic) free range turkey, kefir, butter, vegetables, coconut oil.

JR