Liquid Zeolite Brands
February 28, 2010 by Zeolite Blog
Filed under Zeolite Information
The original brand of activated liquid zeolite was Waiora’s Natural Cellular Defense (NCD). This brand been such an astonishing commercial success, that other companies have naturally started to produce their own versions. This is to be expected, and the competition is certainly good for the future evolution of the product.
As a generic, non-commerical zeolite information site, liquidzeolite.org tries desperately to be impartial to branding. However, there is such a massive difference between the different brands of liquid zeolite that to give each one equal billing would not be in the public interest. We are aware that there are many very sick people who are looking to use these detox products as an integral part of their treatment programs, often for life-and-death medical conditions, and it is important for us to share with you some of the information that we have received.
First of all, we have to state that almost all the scientific information we have come across on clinical use of liquid zeolite, spec sheets, clinical research etc. have involved a single brand — Waiora’s Natural Cellular Defense (NCD). We have not seen any other comprehensive information from any other brand. If we do, we will most certainly post it up. All the testimonials on this site are actually NCD testimonials, which we have modified by replacing the brand name with “liquid zeolite” in keeping with the overall presentation of this generic information site.
We have witnessed, first hand, one long-standing liquid zeolite “expert” who masqueraded as a doctor and was actually recommending treatment programs to people with cancer, but who was finally forced to admit that the title was bogus, offering the excuse that he was merely using a long-standing nickname. We have checked his work with a UK university biochemistry professor, a retired UK research doctor, a US cell biologist and a leading US chemist who all dismiss many of his scientific claims as bogus. Even the product he makes has been shown to be basically mineral water, and yet, he continues to be promoted and his product continues to be sold, often to very sick people.
There are companies out there selling products that have not been cleaned properly, one of which even boasts that their natural source of zeolite is so clean already that this process is unnecessary! (All natural deposits of zeolite are “dirty”.) There are products that claim to have nano-sized particles, when in fact their particles size is large enough for the products to be ineffective. There are products that have high mould and bacteria content because they use ingredients such as humic acid, but you wouldn’t know this as they avoid having 3rd party analysis. And we have seen companies steal other companies’ literature and clinical research, despite have a product that is qualitatively different. And there are other companies that seem perfectly happy just to mix powdered zeolite in water because powdered zeolite is so cheap, calling the mixture “liquid zeolite” despite it being almost totally inactive as a detox product. Liquid zeolite manufacturing is far more complex than just adding powdered zeolite to water and shaking the bottle!
It is unfortunately that in this modern commercial world, scientific research is increasingly being substituted by unsubstantiated PR and marketing claims, which owe their validity more to creative imagination than the rigours and relative expense of scientific inquiry.
Our advice, therefore, to anybody interested in using liquid zeolite is the following:
- Ask for a full 3rd party (must be done by independent lab — not in-house) specification sheet giving full elemental analysis (including any impurities), particle size analysis, micro analysis (bacterial and fungal content), and VOC (volatile organic compound) content. If any of this information is missing for a particular brand, don’t buy it.
- Ask for powder diffraction analysis to prove that the product actually contains zeolite. As there are liquid zeolite products with no detectable zeolite in them this is very important. If you can’t get hold of this analysis for a particular brand, don’t buy it.
- Ask for blood serum zeolite level tests to show that the product is actually being absorbed by the body. (It will only be absorbed if the particle size is small enough.) If you can’t get this information for a particular brand, don’t buy it.
Your health is too important to risk buying scientifically unsubstantiated products, even if they compensate for their lack of analysis with colourful websites and pseudo-scientific brochures.
Any company producing a product must not think that it can avoid the expense (and perhaps embarrassment) of getting it fully analysed by a 3rd party lab. Spec sheet are essential for public safety and to prove that a particular brand is delivering zeolite to the blood stream. Otherwise, you may as well take much cheaper powdered zeolite which does its work from within the intestine only, or in some cases, a bottle of mineral water from the supermarket.
If someone is very sick and urgently needing to detox, using a product that is labeled “liquid zeolite” without 3rd party lab spec sheets for that product is irresponsible. The brands differ enormously.
The only brand we have come across so far that delivers on all three requirements listed above is NCD by Waiora. Most meet none of these three requirements! This we hope changes as more companies decide to conduct the proper tests, but until it does, we advise anyone to stick with the tested products. We will keep you posted if and when we come across other brands that have completed all three tests.
NCD also has the unique distinction of being the only brand used in clinical trials. We have heard that these trials are positive and the first paper was published on 3rd Nov 2009. You can read it in the research section of this website. Now this is published, it will open the flood gates for other research into liquid zeolite, so there will be no excuse for any company not to actually back its products with bone fide peer-reveiwed scientific research. (Most won’t bother because it is expensive, but we believe that your health is worth that expense.)
Below is a comparative study that has been done on 4 of the current leading liquid zeolite brands. The study was compiled from a court case involving two of the parties, and so the data’s validity has been vetted. The results show the huge disparity between just these three brands, with two of the brands showing no detectable zeolite content at all!
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The current four leading brands are Natural Cellular Defense (NCD) sold by Waiora, UK ZNatural sold by Spirit of Sunshine and US ZNatural sold by Trilogy, and ACZnano sold by Results RNA. All these brands of liquid zeolite claim to contain zeolite that is cleaned and activated, which means toxins naturally found in the mineral are removed and the zeolite cages are filled with lighter, healthy metal ions like sodium, potassium, magnesium, calcium etc. The reason we refer to the US and UK versions of ZNatural separately is that, although they are both ostensibly produced by LifeLink Inc. in the US, the compositional analysis below shows them to be different products manufactured in different ways. The only thing they seem to share is the ZNatural brand name.
We have been trying to find third-party lab analysis for these leading liquid zeolite products for a couple of years now because we were tired of just relying for this information on the marketing machine of the two respective companies. To be fair, Waiora did release 3-party analysis of their NCD brand in June 2006, so we knew it was safe, but the report they issued was not detailed enough. (As far as we are aware, no other major brands have issued even this sort of basic safety report.)
So you can imagine our delight when Rik Deitsch, biochemist and CEO of Nutra Pharma Corp., who is directly involved with the Waiora product, sent us the following report which has been compiled from four different 3rd-party labs: Lubrizol Advanced Materials Inc., Watson Analytical Services LLC, Microbac Laboratories Inc., and AnalytiKem Services Inc. We are aware that Deitsch is the scientific adviser for Waiora and their NCD brand, but as these results were undertaken by 3rd-party labs we feel that they carry weight. (Labs are not doing to risk their reputations by fiddling data.) Also, much of this comparative data was key in having Lifelinks’ court case against Waiora dismissed (Lifelink accused Waiora of copying their manufacturing process) as it clearly showed huge disparity between the products. This adds to the data’s credibility.
More recently, in 2009, we received from the same source another 3rd-party lab comparison study, this time comparing NCD with ACZnano. The data was also compiled from several laboratory sources: Watson Analytical Services, Microserv Laboratories and AnalytiKem Services.
We have integrated the results from both studies together to give cross brand comparison.
LIQUID ZEOLITE BRAND COMPARISON STUDY
Materials Provided:
Comparative Study 1
Spirit of Sunshine (SOS) ZNatural – 2 bottles (15ml each)
Trilogy Essentials (TE) ZNatural – 2 bottles (15ml each)
Waiora Natural Cellular Defense (NCD) – 2 bottles (15ml each)
Comparative Study 2
ACZnano – 2 bottles (120ml total)
Waiora NCD – 7 bottles (105ml total)
Description:
This first study, a compilation of data from 4 independent 3rd-party analytical laboratories — Lubrizol Advanced Materials Inc., Watson Analytical Services LLC, Microbac Laboratories Inc., and AnalytiKem Services Inc. — was completed in April 2008, and was undertaken to compare and contrast 3 liquid zeolite brands: NCD, SOS and TE.
The second study, a compilation of data from 3 independent 3rd-party analytical laboratories — Watson Analytical Services LLC, Microserv Laboratories Inc., and AnalytiKem Services Inc. — was completed in February 2009, and was undertaken to compare and contrast NCD and ACZnano liquid zeolites.
Analyses conducted were particle size analysis, elemental analysis, powder diffraction analysis, measurement of serum concentration of product after ingestion and trace metal analysis by Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy (AAS) and INductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectroscopy (ICP-MS).
Microbial analysis was also conducted on the products to evaluate the presence of contaminants.
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| All data reproduced here with permission from Rik Deitsch, Nutra Pharma Corp. Blood Plasma Concentrations: The plasma was collected from blood samples of patients utilizing one of the three products tested. Everything larger than 5 microns (cellular debris, etc.) was filtered out and then each sample was split in two. Several extractions (proteins and lipids, etc) were performed on one half of each sample. These were compared with averaged readings from the same analysis on pooled plasma from seven non-NCD consuming individuals (waste plasma from the blood bank) to give a control. The second half of all four samples (3 liquid zeolite samples and the control) were then analysed by ICP-MS (inductively coupled plasma mass spectroscopy) for the presence of silicon and aluminium. The control plasma readings were then subtracted out so that a serum zeolite concentration could be determined. NCD gave a plasma reading of 1.03 picograms/dL, however, no additional Si or Al were observed in patients using either of the Znatural brands. As no long-term consumer was available for ACZnano, the data remains unavailable. Powder Diffraction Analysis: Powder diffraction graph for NCD, proving conclusively that it contains clinoptilolite, 4.1 micron mean particle size. There is no powder diffraction graph for either of the ZNatural formulas due to their ‘below detectable limits’ zeolite content (you can’t analyse what you can’t see). The green line in the above graph represents a tracing of authentic clinoptilolite (the safe form of zeolite used in health supplements). The yellow line represents a sample of NCD attained by filter removal of the liquid phase of the product. The reader can see that the chemical profile or fingerprint almost exactly matches, proving that the NCD liquid zeolite actually contains this form of zeolite. Where the fingerprint does not match — at the beginning of the graph below 10.00 (around 5) where there seems to be a loss of signal — is due to the NCD processing which removes heavy metals from the raw product. Trace metals and Minerals: This analysis of the sub-micron fraction of all three products. All products were filtered to remove all larger particles. What remains in the NCD batch still fits the standard for Clinoptilolite taking loose ions into account, while the ions present in the SOS and TE products do not match the chemical formula for the component identified as present: 4,5 di-cyclo, disilico, dimagnesium, dialumino, oxyo, trihydrate, identified as a “Magnesium alumionosilicate”. This nomenclature would require a 1:1:1 ration of Si:Mg:Al. SOS has a ration of approximately 10:5:1 while TE has a ratio of approximately 1:3:1. The conclusion is that neither the TE nor the SOS ZNatural actually contains clinoptilolite or the stated compound on the product label. Conclusions: With the ACZnano, the ion ratios were not consistent with that of clinoptilolite (although this could be because ions were added during manufacture). ACZnano also has no detectable sub-micron zeolite, which is a bit crazy as the “nano” in its name implies a sub-micron particle size. ACZ nano’s larger particle size would mean less (if any) absorption into the blood. The company that manufacturers it has an impressive marketing material, but without backing up their claims with 3rd-party lab tests for both product specification and absorption into the body, we cannot take Results RNA’s claims seriously. This approach of “heavy on marketing but light on research” is a little worrying. What was even more worrying, however, was the results of these lab tests for the Spirit of Sunshine and Trilogy Essential brands of ZNatural. At least the ACZ nano product contained a solid (although there is no evidence that it is clinoptilolite zeolite) but the SOS and TE ZNatural brands did not seem to contain any solids at all — just ions floating around in solution! However, absence of evidence is not evidence for absence, and they possibly contain minute amounts below detection levels. However, their ion ratios are still worrying inconsistent (could be due to added ions) and do not support this. The manufacturer of SOS and TE ZNatural products has produced no 3rd party lab spec sheets or evidence of absorbancy into the blood. We have heard of people getting results from ZNatural so we cannot dismiss it out of hand. Its effectiveness could be the result of non-detectable amounts of zeolite, new sub-components of zeolite (see next paragraph), the placebo effect and/or possibly some sort of homeopathic action. However, leaving placebo, novel molecules and homeopathic action aside, from a scientific ion-exchange point of view, if ZNatural is working at all due to non-detectable amounts of zeolite, it has to be less effective than any product with a detectable amount of zeolite. Harvey Kaufman, a stakeholder in Lifelink Inc., the manufacturer of ZNatural (we understand that Kaufman might have recently left Lifelink), has stated that in his manufacturing process the clinoptilolite is broken down further into soluble sub-components which he labels “nano-zeolite” that he states are novel molecules and not actually zeolite at all. However, any chemist would dismiss even the possibility of his molecule existing as it does not comply to the basic laws of chemistry — for example he draws his nano-zeolite structure with an oxygen atom linked to 5 other atoms, an impossibility in standard chemistry as oxygen cannot have a 5-valency. Although this novel zeolite sub-unit could explain why there is no detectable zeolite in their products, Kaufman has never supplied any scientific evidence whatsoever for the existence of his “nano-zeolite”, and it has been dismissed by academics. You will see from the analysis above that ion ratios do not support this novel molecule explanation (both in their values and inconsistency), nor does ICP-MS analysis of blood plasma. After all, even novel zeolite pieces must contain aluminium and silicon, the basic building blocks of zeolite, but there is no evidence of increase in levels of these elements in the blood serum of ZNatural users, showing that these zeolite sub-components are probably fictional. Claiming that novel zeolite sub-components are present also raises some serious safety concerns because any new molecule is unlikely to share clinoptilolite’s GRAS (Generally Recognized as Safe) status and therefore needs to be fully researched before appearing in a food supplement. As far as we are aware, this research has not happened, and ZNatural promoters push their product on the back of standard clinoptilolite information, status and research. So more explanations and some scientific data are needed from Lifelink to clear up this confusion, and they need to publically release their evidence for this “nano-zeolite”, safety data for it, and proof that it is present in the blood serum of those that take ZNatural. Not to do so is irresponsible as there are many sick people who rely and have relied on their product to detoxify. * * * Based on the above, we have to conclude that the safest and most effective brand of liquid zeolite is currently Waiora’s Natural Cellular Defense. At least you know, by the ion ratios and the powder diffraction analysis that you really do have a colloidal suspension of clinoptilolite zeolite. However, we do remain open to new data, and will continue to modify this section to keep it up-to-date as new liquid zeolite brands emerge. We hope that liquid zeolite manufacturers will realize that manufacturing liquid zeolite is far more complex than just mixing zeolite in water (as many do), or trying to gain credibility by associating their product with a scientist/doctor, rather than doing actual science. Manufacturers bear a heavy responsibility to produce comprehensive 3rd-party specification data and research on their products as there are many very sick people who rely on liquid zeolite to remove the toxins that are suppressing their bodies’ innate healing abilities. If products are based more on slick marketing and flashy websites than actual research, they could be doing more harm than good. If you have any questions regarding the Pharma Corp data, please take it up with them. We have published this data in good faith for the public interest. |
| The statements above have not been evaluated by the FDA. If you are unwell or on medication, we recommend you seek the advice of a qualified healthcare practitioner before starting a zeolite program. Zeolite is not a medicine, and is not intended for the treatment or prevention of disease. |
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