You cannot rest assured that anything you buy in a supplement shop is safe or effective. Before deche there were roughly four thousand dietary supplement products on the ket. There's been an avalanche of products marketed on podcasts, tiktok and youtube. Even after a botanical has been shown in a large, carefully conducted study not toork, it can still be promoted as having those sort of health effacts.
Millions of Americans take dietary supplements — everything from vitamins and minerals to weight loss pills and probiotics. But because supplements are loosely regulated in the US, their makers don't have to prove that they work, or even that they are safe.
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