Tag: supplements
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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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Detox supplements don’t do what you think
Your liver and kidneys already detox you. The supplement industry has built a billion-dollar category solving a problem your body solved before lunch.
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High doses can do more harm than good
More isn’t always better. From vitamins to painkillers to caffeine, high doses often produce diminishing or reversed returns. Here’s what the dose-response data shows.
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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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Placebo effects drive many results
From supplements to surgery, placebo effects explain a startling share of perceived benefits. Here’s how to tell real treatment from expensive expectation.
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Wellness trends move faster than science
Wellness trends cycle through clinics and feeds long before evidence catches up. Here’s how the gap forms and how to spot trends that will quietly fade.
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More ingredients doesn’t mean better outcomes
Skincare, supplements, and protein powders compete by ingredient count. The clinical evidence shows more compounds rarely produce better results.
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Fat burner supplements are mostly marketing
Fat burners promise easy weight loss in a capsule. The active ingredients, real-world effects, and clinical data tell a much weaker story.
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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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The placebo effect drives many supplement results
Supplements often deliver real subjective benefits, and a large share of those benefits is the placebo effect. That’s not nothing, but it changes the value calculation.