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Despite all the warnings for years about the limited benefit and potential harm of supplements, people continue to gobble them up - Julia Belluz

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Stop wasting your money on dietary supplements

For years, public health experts have practically begged people to stop wasting money on dietary supplements.

For one, many of these pills don't work. Study after study has demonstrated that favorites like multivitamins don't actually improve outcomes on a number of health measures, from staving off cognitive decline to preventing cardiovascular disease and cancer. The health benefits of probiotics are wildly exaggerated, and taking antioxidants like beta carotene and vitamin E might even kill you faster.

And because of lax regulation, there are well-documented concerns about supplement quality and adulteration. Supplement makers don't need to prove their products are effective…

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 Stop wasting your money on dietary supplements

For years, public health experts have practically begged people to stop wasting money on dietary supplements. For one, many of these pills don't work. Study after study has demonstrated that favorites like multivitamins don't actually improve outcomes on a number of health measures, from staving off cognitive decline to preventing cardiovascular disease and cancer. The health benefits of probiotics are wildly exaggerated, and taking antioxidants like beta carotene and vitamin E might even kill you faster.

7 Popular Supplements That May Have Hidden Dangers

When it comes to supplements, there’s so much hype about their potential benefits that it can be hard to separate fact from fiction. While it’s true that vitamins and minerals are essential to health, it’s not true that taking them in pill, capsule, or powder form — especially in megadoses — is necessary or without risks.

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ConsumerLab.com

To identify the best quality health and nutritional products through independent testing.

Council for Responsible Nutrition

The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), founded in 1973, is a Washington-based trade association representing ingredient suppliers and manufacturers in the dietary supplement industry. CRN members adhere to a strong code of ethics, comply with dosage limits and manufacture dietary supplements to high quality standards under good manufacturing practices.

Critical Health News

Critical Health News brings together select alternative health voices, whose perspective and expertise offer evidence of the bodies natural ability to heal its self. Our goal is to create and gather the most meaningful health related information together as a service to give our readers the tools to empower themselves.

Examine

We have no conflicts of interest: Our team is composed of scientists; all we do all day, every day, is analyze studies on nutrition and supplementation, to answer your questions.

Fake Food Watch

Folly, fun, and fraud in U.S. industrial food.

LabDoor

As consumers, we'd like to think that the vitamins and supplements we buy are effective and safe. In reality, this isn't always the case. Labdoor is an independent company that tests supplements. We find out whether products have what they claim and if they have any harmful ingredients or contaminants. Then, we grade and rank those products, write reports, and publish that information for free, so consumers can confidently buy the best supplements for their health.

List of Supplements

Examine.com is an independent and unbiased encyclopedia on supplementation and nutrition. We are not affiliated in any way with any supplement company. Founded in early 2011, we have one goal - to be the unbiased source for supplements and nutrition. We have spent tens of thousands of hours collating the latest scientific research. This site is run by editors who examine primary research. Users are encouraged to submit corrections and any research we may have missed.

Natural Medicines

Natural Medicines approaches the subject of natural medicines from a completely objective and unbiased perspective. It seeks to answer questions about natural medicines by systematically identifying, evaluating, and applying scientific information. As a result, it curtails perpetuation of myths and age-old beliefs and replaces them with reliable scientific data.

Natural Products Foundation

Naturalproductsinfo.org is a part of the Natural Products Foundation, your source for science-based vitamin and supplement information.

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