Shilajit, also known as Mountain Blood, has been used in traditional Ayurveda healing for thousands of years. Extracted from mountain ranges by locals, it’s full of naturally-occurring minerals, vitamins and micronutrients and promises big health benefits. Nature Provides, a family-owned company, was one of the first to sell authentic shilajit in the UK.
But the Yorkshire nutritionist behind the business has warned of a rise in fake products, sold online at a fraction of the price, that are failing all the tests for authenticity. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Yorkshire Evening Post, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. “It was a niche product up until two years ago,” Rachel Aceso, who founded Nature Provides in 2016, told the Yorkshire Evening Post.
“We had a very solid customer base that knew this product and knew that we sell one of the best. But in the last year or so it’s really taken off on social media, and with that has come a rise in fake products. “We know it’s not shilajit because we’ve tested these samples from all over the world.
Raw ingredients are expensive - Mountain Blood is collected by local people and you can’t make it in a lab.” Shilajit bleeds from mountains and is commonly collected from the Himalayas or the Altai mountains. Millions of years of plant matter that’s been compressed into rock is extracted using loca.
