supplements

Supplements, currently a $30 billion industry, are the best example of “it couldn’t hurt.” A meta-analysis of meta-analyses finds, once again, that supplements have no impact on the great killer, cardiovascular disease.

The FDA met last week in the first hearing to decide the regulatory fate of the cannabinoid CBD; you know the marijuana component that has no or little psychoactive effect. At the most basic of levels, a drug is a chemical.

Complementary medicine (CM) runs the gamut in its healing claims from offering authentic stress relieving massage and well-meaning, but expensive placebo to outright spurious declarations.

The Crime

Anyone who regularly reads ACSH's writings knows that we look askance at the practice of many Americans to gulp down vitamin and/or mineral supplements (VMS), in the belief that even if one isn't deficient they will provide some sort of

Joshua Corn, “a natural health advocate for 20 years” reveals the secrets physicians have withheld from the public about heartburn, and promised us a way to soothe our symptoms and fix the underlying problem.

This week JAMA sought to puncture one component of the supplement bubble, the promised prophylactic benefit of Calcium and Vitamin D supplements in preventing fractures.

Celiac disease (CD), an autoimmune disorder that is marked by damage to the lining of the small intestine, can only be treated by following a gluten free (GF) diet.

A Google search of the term “turmeric” yields well over 36 million links (full disclosure: I did not read them all).

Vitamin D status and supplements seem to have become a societal preoccupation. Encouraging the latter’s use as a cure-all, the “magic bullet” commercialization of vitamins and supplements has created a multi-billion dollar industry.