Tag: nutrition
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The truth about proprietary blends
Proprietary blends let supplement companies hide doses behind a single number. Once you know what they’re concealing, the label rarely impresses.
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Cycling Supplements Makes More Sense Than Daily Use
Most supplements weren’t tested for indefinite daily use. Cycling on and off matches biology better than taking the same pills every day for decades.
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Most People Don’t Need Daily Supplement Stacks
The supplement industry is a $50B business built on optimism, not evidence. For most healthy adults, elaborate daily stacks deliver expensive urine, not better health.
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Why whole foods beat pills most of the time
Most multivitamins and isolated supplements show weak or null results in randomized trials. Whole foods deliver nutrients in forms research consistently supports.
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Mega-dosing vitamins is risky
High-dose vitamin protocols promise rapid benefits, but the harms are well-documented and the upside is thinner than the marketing suggests.
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Multivitamins are a waste for most people
Decades of large studies keep finding the same thing: multivitamins don’t meaningfully improve health outcomes for healthy adults. The marketing has outpaced the evidence.
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Most supplements don’t do anything
The supplement industry is a $50 billion business built on weak evidence, marketing language, and the placebo effect. Here’s what the trials actually show.
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Supplements can create false confidence about health
Taking supplements can produce a sense of doing something for your health that the pills don’t actually deliver. Here’s the licensing-effect problem nobody discusses.
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Whole foods outperform pills most of the time
Supplements are a $50 billion industry that consistently underperforms a decent diet. Here’s where pills genuinely help and where they’re mostly expensive urine.
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The line between food and supplement is blurry
Functional foods, fortified snacks, and protein everything: the regulatory line between food and supplement has eroded. What does that mean for consumers?