About us

Health Leads UK Ltd. is based in Wales and is a leading supplier of vitamins, minerals, herbal & nutritional supplements. We take pride in the quality of our products and the fact they are produced without harmful additives.

Welcome

Health Leads was formed by John and Christine Doyle as a result of their interest in health, nutrition and education. During their research they were surprised to discover that many companies manufacture supplements with additives, not to provide nutritional value, but merely to increase productivity. Most of these additives are unnecessary and on occaision linked to possible harmful effects. This provided the impetus to manufacture additive-free supplements as insisted upon by many leading therapists and Doctors such as Dr. Hulda Clark..

After extensive research, Health Leads was founded in 1996 in a small premises near Carmarthen. After 3 years, as the business was growing, the company moved to new premises. Shortly after that a second premises was leased to keep up with the expanding business.

Now in our 15th year, Health Leads has moved to a new larger premises in Llandysul, Wales and continues with the same inspiration, principles and dedication to health. 

Health Leads continue to gain recognition for quality and service. Our entire production processes, from unpacking raw materials, manufacturing and bottling supplements is all carried out in our purpose built class 7 clean room.

Health Leads is dedicated to source the best available ingredients to make high quality supplements without additives, except organic rice flour in only a few products, giving optimal absorption and bio-availability.

Pure, Additive-Free Supplements - Why?

Nutritional supplements are used to enhance diets, restoring or supplementing nutrients, the key focus being nutritional value. One widely used supplement additive is magnesium stearate, also known as Stearic acid. Research shows magnesium stearate may suppress the body's natural killer cells. It produces a reaction in the gut to form a film or lining that works as a barrier to stop or limit absorption of nutrients.

So, why do supplement companies use such additives? Good question. Dr Mercola of the Natural Health Center and many other physicians also believe that magnesium stearate is hazardous to health. It is a lubricant, its sole function is to aid the flow and mix of the formula so that the ingredients do not stick to machinery parts, increasing flow whilst also making the machines easier to clean.

Many companies continue to use additives and to be fair we believe we should present the other opinion here. Please see the article by Michael Ash BSc DO ND Dip ION mIOD http://tinyurl.com/crlws9x

Nevertherless, we still believe it is best to avoid additives that serve no nutritional function and that raise controversial questions of safety. Therefore all of our capsule herbal supplements are 100% additive free. With our range of supplements we strive to fill each capsule so there is noneed of fillers, but of course, this is not always possible especially with microgramme products, so in these cases we use organic rice flour.

High Quality You Can Trust!

A great number of the supplements we manufacture are recommended by Dr. Hulda Clark, who spent many years as a research scientist and moved into private practice employing a number of protocols. Dr. Clark focused on the idea of using uncontaminated high quality & high potency natural herbs, vitamins & minerals with no compromises and high potency being of importance. Of course, 100% purity is not possible as an assay test of any product can confirm but why why deliberately add chemicals that may be harmful, when unecessary? We strictly avoid solvents in the cleaning of our machines, only using our own organic Clean & Safe soap hence avoiding benzene and isopropyl alcohol contamination in the first batch following the clean. In fact, our quality standards are high enough to merit recommendation on the Dr. Clark Research Association website.

No Tablets, Only Capsules

We do not manufacture tablet supplements for the same reason we make additive-free supplements: avoidance of uneccessary contamination. Tablets are the cheapest way to make supplements and contain a high amount of inactive additives, called excipients. Here are a few types - 

• Fillers: are used to bulk out the active ingredients to the required tablet or capsule size.
• Tablet coatings often contain pthalates especially enteris coatings. Pthalates are known endocrine disruptors, altering hormones and detrimentally affecting development and reproduction.
• Binders: do a similar job to glue, the binder holds the tablet together.
• Disintegrants: help the product break up in the digestive tract after being consumed.
• Lubricants: help powders flow, stop them sticking to machine parts and aid in allowing tablets to be ejected from the moulds.

Cheap tablet supplements can contain up to 50% excipients, even high quality tablets may contain up to 25%. Many excipients are sourced from petrochemicals.

For these important reasons we encapsulate our own products with high quality ingredients in a vegetable capsule shell.

Potent & Fresh Ingredients

Many supplement manufactures purchase raw materials in large quantities and manufacture every other year. We only manufacture in our custom built clean room in small batches every 6 to 12 months, giving fresh potent supplements.