Are Vitamins and Supplements a Scam?
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The supplements industry — with all its vitamins, weight loss pills, workout powders, and hormones — has been growing exponentially over the last couple of decades despite there being no increased regulations for them. We wanted to know — are supplements dangerous to take, and are they even effective?

Thank you to the experts we spoke with that helped with our research in this story:
Dr. C. Michael White, Pharm.D., FCP, FCCP
Dr. F. Perry Wilson, MD, MSCE
Dr. Edzard Ernst, MD, PhD, MAE, FMedSci, FRSB, FRCP

And thank you to Ryan Howkins, the founder of the Lion’s Mane Recovery subreddit, who brought the Lion’s Mane story to our team. You can find the subreddit here:   / lionsmanerecovery  

Resources to look up supplements and vitamins:
US Pharmacopeia: https://www.usp.org/
NSF: https://www.nsf.org/

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VIDEO CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
3:57 How the Supplement Industry Works
12:25 What the Science Says
17:34 Supplements Gone Bad
25:19 What Can Be Done
28:28 Announcements & Outro

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About:
Johnny Harris is an Emmywinning independent journalist and contributor to the New York Times. Based in Washington, DC, Harris reports on interesting trends and stories domestically and around the globe, publishing to his audience of over 3.5 million on Youtube. Harris produced and hosted the twice Emmynominated series Borders for Vox Media. His visual style blends motion graphics with cinematic videography to create content that explains complex issues in relatable ways.

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NPR Planet Money: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/10721...


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