Supplement Safety Blogs

Recent anti-supplement stories have stirred up a lot of undue hysteria around supplement safety. Learn how to become a discerning consumer to get the best benefit from nutritional supplements.
 

There’s no question that there are shoddy companies and unreliable labs out there, but they shouldn’t be allowed to taint the entire industry. The real answer is that you need to be savvy about what supplements you buy—and not get fooled by big promises or ridiculously low prices. If a formula appears to be “too good to be true,” it probably is.

Some of you may have seen on the news last night or read in the paper this morning about a study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine. One typical headline screamed, “Vitamins Tied to Higher Death Rates in Older Women…” Folks, this stuff may increase nightly news ratings, but it’s doing more harm than good.