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There’s more evidence for beetroot helping to lower your blood pressure or improving athletic performance. Here’s how to get more beetroot in your diet.
‘Natural’ isn’t the same thing as healthful. You can have too much of a good thing, and taking action can be worse than doing nothing.
A daily fibre supplement improved brain function in twins over 65s in just 12 weeks.
Although most Americans believe dietary supplements are safe, these products often make health claims that are unproven or downright false.
Dietary supplements claim to be able to ‘boost your immune system’ to combat disease. But attaining immune balance through a healthy lifestyle and vaccination is a safer bet to keep in good health.
If you try supplements, you still need to eat a healthy diet, exercise, reduce your stress, quit smoking and get enough sleep. Even then, they may still not be enough.
Sales of vitamins are booming in pandemic times. But is there any evidence that vitamin and mineral supplements can protect you from COVID or help you recover from infection?
Products aimed at sexual dysfunction and weight loss were the most common dietary supplements that contained hidden – and potentially harmful – ingredients.
The FDA has largely lost its ability to regulate the myriad pills, powders and potions that promise to grow muscle, shed body fat and improve your focus.
The FDA recalled commonly used heartburn and ulcer medication ranitidine in April 2020. But new research suggests less reason for alarm.
CBD may not be a panacea for your aches and pains – and it certainly isn’t for COVID-19.
Americans love their supplements, but some of the products are contaminated with heavy metals, bacteria and toxic fungi. The FDA has little control because of a law passed in 1994.
The pharmaceutical waste from Buffalo City dump sites reveals that the sale of over-the-counter drugs remains vastly unregulated and under-researched.
With fear of a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s a constant concern for many seniors, they turn to supplements. A recent study suggests they’d be better off keeping their money.
A new review of 180 studies found little or no protective effects from taking dietary supplements, and actually found some harm.
Something exciting is going on – no thanks to the supplements industry.
Fish oil capsules are marketed as prenatal supplements to improve brain development in children. But now top quality evidence suggests they won’t make any difference in women eating a balanced diet.
A new study finds that folic acid can block the effect of drugs used to treat bipolar disorder.
Protein-based health products have been criticised for inappropriate marketing but are they even worth the money?
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Distinguished Professor of Pharmacy Practice, University of Connecticut
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Professor of Community Health and Wellbeing, The University of Queensland
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Lecturer, Southern Cross University
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Doctorate in Health Sciences candidate, George Washington University
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Professor of Biochemistry, University of Aberdeen
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Associate Professor, Human Molecular Nutrition, University of Newcastle
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PhD Scholar and Lecturer, Queensland University of Technology
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Honorary Associate Professor in Pharmacy Practice, Monash University
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Professor of Nutrition Research in the School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy; Director, Clinical Nutrition Research Centre, University of Newcastle
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Professor of Dermatology, The University of Melbourne
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Associate professor and Royal Society Research Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford
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Assistant Director of Pharmacy, Mater Health SEQ in conjoint appointment as Associate Professor of Pharmacology, Bond University and as Associate Professor (Clinical), The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer in Sport, Health & Exercise Science, University of Stirling
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Postdoctoral research fellow, South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute
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Chair of the University of Sydney Cancer Research Network and Associate Dean of Research at the Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney
