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Essential Oils, Skinny Tea, & The Wellness Influencer Industrial Complex

The Financial Confessions

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The Insidious Thing About Social Media

The US prevention services task force published a new recommendation last summer that current evidence available is quote insufficient to determine the benefits and harms of taking most vitamin mineral and multivitamin supplements. So if you put enough stuff in a bottle no matter what hope or fear people have there will be someone somewhere claiming one of those substances will help them with it. And when those promises don't end up working eventually it only drives the same misinformation and distrust that people already had in the medical community right because they're looking at this as a medical product that didn't work for them rather than looking at it as what it is which is a scam to keep you from getting actual medical help.

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