Immuno 150 is a nutritional supplement sold by a brand called Exceptional Health Products. The brand claims that this supplement provides “Everything Your Body Needs” and that it can support health, energy and happiness.
But do multivitamin supplements actually have any effect on health? Does Immuno 150 contain effective ingredient doses? Does it contain any unhealthy additives? And why do we take issue with some of the claims on the brand's website?
In this article we’ll answer all of these questions and more, as we analyze the ingredients in Immuno 150 to give our take on whether or not it's effectively formulated.
We'll also share our concerns about some of the health claims on the brand's website, and compare Immuno 150 to other popular multivitamin brands like MaryRuth's to pick our winners (and losers).
Because this supplement contains so many active ingredients, we’ll break our ingredient analysis into two sections: Vitamins & Minerals and Herbal Ingredients.
Key takeaways:
- We disagree with some vitamin ingredient doses
- Contains very low doses of some herbal ingredients
- We do not currently recommend Immuno 150
Ingredient Analysis – Vitamins & Minerals
The vitamin and mineral ingredients in Immuno 150 are shown below:
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The doses of some of these ingredients are relatively high, and may be unsafe to take for extended periods of time.
Vitamin E is included at a dose of 60.3 milligrams (mg), or 402% of the Daily Value (DV).
A medical review published in the Annals of Internal Medicine journal reports that high dosage vitamin E supplementation may increase all-cause mortality, and while the dosage (400 IU) that was shown to have a statistically significant effect was somewhat higher than the dose in Immuno 150, we still consider such a high vitamin E dose to be concerning.
Vitamin B12 is included at a dose of 600 micrograms (mcg), which is 25,000% of the DV.
Exceptional Health Products fails to provide any evidence on their product page that taking such a high dose of vitamin B12 for extended periods of time is beneficial for human health, or that it’s safe.
Copper is included at 111% of the DV, and a 2006 medical review found that high copper blood levels were associated with increased mortality rates.
Aside from our concerns about some of the specific nutrient levels in Immuno 150, we haven’t come across any convincing evidence that multivitamin and multimineral supplementation improves human health.
A medical review published by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force concluded the following:
“Vitamin and mineral supplementation provides little to no benefit in preventing cancer, CVD, and death, with the exception of a possible small benefit for cancer incidence with multivitamin use, where lung cancer showed the largest benefit.”
Perhaps in individuals who consume an unhealthy diet and are unwilling to make dietary changes, multivitamin use may be beneficial because it can provide adequate nutrition.
But for the majority of otherwise healthy adults without nutritional deficiency, we haven’t seen much evidence that spending money on multivitamin or multimineral supplements is worth it.
Ingredient Analysis – Herbal Ingredients
Some of the active herbal ingredients in Immuno 150 are shown below:
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The doses of these ingredients are incredibly low in most cases.
The entire “Herbal Complex” only contains an active ingredient dose of 31 mg, which equates to an average ingredient dose of 2 mg.
One teaspoon of turmeric root contains 3,000 mg according to the USDA, which means that one single teaspoon of turmeric contains 1,500 times the turmeric dose that Immuno 150 provides.
We have not come across any medical evidence that any of these herbal ingredients at a dose this low provides any health benefit.
Flaxseed powder is the final active ingredient, at a dose of 3 mg.
A medical review published in the Nutrients journal examined the potential benefits of dietary flaxseed on human health. The only doses cited were 25,000 mg per day and 50,000 mg per day.
This means that the doses of flaxseed shown in this review to be beneficial to human health were around 10,000 times higher than the dose in Immuno 150.
Titanium dioxide is included as an inactive ingredient, and this ingredient is banned for use as a food additive in the E.U. due to toxicity concerns.
Overall, we do not currently recommend Immuno 150 due to our concerns about some of the ingredient doses, and due to the inclusion of titanium dioxide.
Questionable Health Claims on Website
There are a number of questionable and uncited health claims on the Immuno 150 website.
As shown below, the brand claims their supplement’s “high ORAC value…generates sustained energy”:
image source: https://immuno150.com/
ORAC value refers to the antioxidant capacity of foods, and while high-ORAC foods may slow aging according to the USDA, we can’t find any clinical evidence that high ORAC foods create “sustained” energy levels, nor does the brand cite any.
Exceptional Health Products also claims that their capsules “quickly dissolve for complete absorption”:
image source: https://immuno150.com/
However, the brand provides no evidence of this claim, and we don’t understand how the brand can claim “complete absorption” for a supplement that doesn’t appear to have been clinically tested and proven to be completely absorbed.
The Immuno 150 website claims that their supplement “has a track record of being the first over the finish line” in regard to strengthening the immune system:
image source: https://immuno150.com/
We don’t understand what this even means.
How can the brand suggest their supplement is superior to any other supplement in regard to immune system health, if it hasn’t been tested and proven to be superior to any other supplements in regard to immune system health?
What is this claim even based on?
We recommend that consumers be wary of health brands making specific unproven claims.
Immuno 150 vs. Popular Multivitamins
Here's how Immuno 150 compares to other popular multivitamin brands in terms of formulation quality, in our opinion:
MaryRuth's
Some formulations contain natural flavor, which is a broad categorical descriptor which may include compounds which have negative effects on human health.
However, we don't have the same concerns regarding active ingredient dosing, and we consider natural flavor to be less harmful than titanium dioxide.
We consider MaryRuth's to be the superior brand from a health perspective.
Winner: MaryRuth's
Standard Process
Standard Process is a "whole food vitamin" brand.
While we do not currently recommend this brand, and have some issues with formulation quality (as documented in the above-linked review), both of the formulations we analyzed were free of unhealthy inactive ingredients.
We consider Standard Process to be the better option from a health and safety standpoint.
Winner: Standard Process
Ritual
This is one of the higher-quality vitamin brands in the US, having funded clinical trials showing their formulations to increase blood levels of nutrients.
The Ritual multivitamin formulations we've analyzed were free of any unhealthy ingredients.
Winner: Ritual
Immuno 150 Pros and Cons
Pros:
- Contains many whole food ingredients
- Multivitamins may improve health of those with poor diet
- Multivitamins may slightly reduce cancer risk
- Mostly positive Walmart reviews
Cons:
- Contains extremely low dose of herbal ingredients
- Contains titanium dioxide
- Brand makes questionable health claims on website
- Contains relatively high doses
- Less healthy than some competitors
