StarCaps Cause Failed Drug Tests?
October 28, 2008
A diet pill you may not be familiar with but sells like crazy is called “StarCaps ” and it’s billed as the diet supplement for the stars. Owned by Hollywood star Nikki Haskell the supplement can be purchased via the Internet or many of the health-food stores in the U.S., and the capsules are sold in bottles in quantities of 30 for about $100. Last year, I saw the product sold for $200 at one large retail chain!
According to its Web site, StarCaps is “an all natural supplement ,” which has “been prepared in Peru, using an exclusive drying process to help preserve the enzyme, activity of papaya, grown in the Peruvian Amazon, and the dietary integrity of fresh garlic, grown in the rich and fertile mountains of Arequipa, Peru. Papaya and Garlic have been
used in their raw forms since the time of the ancient Greeks, Romans and Incas.”
There is no mention of the diuretic Bumetanide (pictured on right), a drug banned by the NFL which Saints players Deuce McAllister, Will Smith and Charles Grant reportedly tested positive for by taking this supplement. In late 2007, a group of scientists at the University of Utah did a study on StarCaps. In its research, the scientists gave a StarCaps capsule to male and female volunteers. Urine samples were then analyzed and Bumetanide was detected in each person! To read more on why various supplements have been linked to failed drug tests, click HERE.
SOURCE: The Times-Picayune