Natural Cellular Defense

Does anyone know anything about natural cellular defense? I was introduced to this by a friend. I am naturally skeptical about any miracle cures such as these and would ignore them completley but I fear for my friend and am resarching this product.

Natural cellular defense… used to remove heavy metals, pesticides, herbicides, radiations, and other toxins from the body, maintains your body’s pH balance, natural, non-toxic, has a US patent, labeled GRAS by the FDA (genearlly recognized as safe).

I’ve tried researching it but cannot find many things against it or any type of criticisms. Is is safe? Does it really work? Is it a scam? Help!

More information about NCD:
http://www.bforeveryoung.org/
http://www.newstarget.com/015232.htm

I have no medical qualifications, but, as the active ingredient seems only to be Zeolite, I doubt very much whether it’ll have any theraputic effect.

If your friend has, or thinks he might have, cancer (one of the many illnesses that this drug claims to treat), you should do all you can to persuade him to seek conventional medical attention.

To answer your questions: (a) Probably (b) No © Yes.

Pretty much every word in your description is a big giant red flag on my scam-o-meter. Does it even pretend to explain how it does all these magical things?

These types of words are all you need to look for in the huge numbers of products of this type: “remove heavy metals, pesticides, herbicides, radiations, and other toxins from the body”.

When the word “toxin” appears in any product advertisement gives you 99% assurance that it is quakery. When you combine it “heavy metals, pesticides, herbicides, radiations” then have got your guarentee of quakery there and that holds true for ALL products that use that sort of advertisement.

If you have ever taken some type of cell biology, ask yourself how one product could identify all of those things and find a pathway to eliminate them? How does it know bad metals from good? You need some iron. Does it contain a database of pesticides? How would it get rid of radiation and why would you even want to seeing how radiation includes light?

If this miracle product could sort out the bad from the good in lots of disparate forms of matter and energy, what would it do with it? Each requires its own complex breakdown and elimination mechanism? Where does it send it? Do you start peeing lead and radio waves?

Legitimate products always have the science to back them up. This is so far beyond impossible that it makes impossible blush.

ALWAYS watch for these buzzwords. Extrordinary claims require extrodinary evidence and the real ones have it out there to see a legimtimate biological way for the product to work. This one does not.

I goggled some of the names and places in the “scientific paper” The place in cailfornia doesn’t come up on the Chamber of Commerce site for the city it’s supposed to be in.
The name of the main researcher is spelled wrong. :dubious:

I understand what everyone is saying and it screamed “scam!” at me when I heard it.

The problem is, I’m pretty much inept at science to these degree and researching it, I don’t understand what it means. NCD claims to have been researched for over 20 years until recently they deemed it safe and got a patent. My friend claims that even some doctors recommend this. If I could have some definite answer as to whether this is safe or not, scam or not, it would be helpful. My friend claims to have researched it all thoroughly and these are the links she has provided me with (all uploaded to my site):

Anti cancer
Anti viral
Dirrhea
Patent
[Scientific Research Monograph](http://www.akayouth.com/NCD/SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH MONOGRAPH.doc)
Toxin
Heavy Metal
Lead
Nitrosamine
Arsenic
Mercury
Density
Neuro Immunomodulation

Well, the FDA isn’t too impressed. See their warning letter (pdf)

If you don’t want the science, then I can give you this answer straight up:

Is it safe? If you’re using it to avoid a hospital visit, no. You could have a potentially serious or life threatening condition, and only a doctor is qualified to determine this. Don’t self medicate.

Is it a scam? Yes. It doesn’t do what it’s advertized to do. It may potentially be helpful in some way or another, but likely not for any of the reasons they claim.

If you, or your friend, or anyone you know is ill, see a doctor.