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Originally Posted by troutman
http://skepdic.com/vitacon.html
update: January 21, 2016. The supplement industry is largely self-regulated and many of its products don't contain the ingredients that their labels say they do. This may explain why the best scientific studies of supplements have found no health benefits and some harm from the daily use of supplements.
Several large studies have shown the futility of taking vitamin and mineral supplements on a daily basis as a hedge against some unspecified adverse health effects. Many people, however, consider daily supplements to be part of a healthy lifestyle. Some people may be overdoing it on some of the supplements, doing themselves harm instead of good.
Should everybody avoid supplements of any kind, then? Of course not. Some people have vitamin or mineral deficiencies and supplementation is necessary for them to maintain good health.
Below you will find links to articles about persons or practices relating to vitamins, minerals, or herbs. You'll also find excerpts from various items on these topics that I've blogged about. As a bonus, I mention people who make a living selling supplements at inflated prices and encouraging others to do the same with the promise that by doing so you will be on your way to riches beyond your imagination, eternal youth, increased spirituality, or something of the sort.
There are too many companies and products involved in this kind of chicanery to list them all by name. The following links should help you decide whether a particular outfit or product is trustworthy.
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This is huge to me and thanks for posting it. I used to be a supplement monster, I was taking a whole bunch of them, but the more I researched the more I decided that I couldn't trust the labels and that's pretty dire.
There's no quality control, anyone can go out and open a store or sell this crap from their houses and say anything they want to sell them.
Like I said, I got really pissed when I looked at this couple's store ad and they were selling one medication that dealt with and cured bi-polar disorders, depression and anxiety. Three of the corner stones of real mental health stories that we read about every day.
I personally think that people see these ads where these supplements will cure their slow brain functions, or restore their perfect health, bring back massive boners and their hair line and at that point they just buy out of desperation.
This is an industry that really needs to be regulated and tested and professionalized.
Because right now with the way people can get in and sell them following a Tupperware party or Mary Kay business model is dangerous. there are too many people that listen to these quacks that took an online course as opposed to a medical professional. The worst is the holistic cancer industry that deems itself fit to siphon 10's of thousands of dollars from the desperate by selling the wrong kind of hope.
And we've seen more then one death occur because of it.