Three Marketing Myths the Supplement Industry Wants You to Swallow
What You Can Do to Protect Yourself from the Supplement Market
The Appeal to Nature Fallacy
You often hear people saying how good it is to use vitamins, minerals, and other dietary substances from natural sources. They promote natural remedies over synthetic substitutes and claim that they are as natural as the human body allows them to be. While it has a certain charm to the whole natural thing, you need not consider it when deciding a drug from a natural supplement.
But why doesn’t the same rule that holds for foods and supplements on what is a good practice hold for medicines? Isn’t it logical that something healthy like a supplement could equally provide health benefits like a drug of which we’re sure but of which we know very few specifics? The fact is that for decades, the world of health industry marketing has been riddled and pummeled by fallacized and misleading practices, often intentionally manipulated to make products sound too convincing and too impressive, especially because so many consumers do need that extra reassurance especially.
Trial and Error, as they say
While we find numerous examples in history the past of people getting cured despite consuming supplements in an unsafe dosage, we are left clueless about the risks that accompanied it. It was also never discussed whether there was any clear improvement in health because not just the vitamins or supplements per se, but because there was no proper guidance in the first place, and a proper doctor with a proper degree who was on site to guide people was on leave or too busy somewhere the outcome seems even more unlikely and
Epidemiological Study that Stands for ‘Survey,’
This idea stems from a flawed logic whereby assuming that an ingredient does
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