Dr. Christopher Labos

My parents gave me one.

It did nothing.

And there is so much research on this now.

If you think that vitamin C is going to cure the common cold, it actually won't.

And vitamin D, again, this was heralded as the thing that was going to cure both heart disease and cancer and everything else under the sun.

It was going to be the cure for COVID at some point, too.

The problem is that when you actually test these things in objective manners, they don't work.

When you take somebody who has heart disease and give them vitamin D versus a placebo, no difference.

If you take people with cancer, give them vitamin D versus a placebo, no difference.

So a lot of this stuff

is largely being driven by initial enthusiasm that has not borne itself out.

So for the people who are out there taking supplements and buying stuff over the counter, you probably don't need it.

I didn't talk about this in the book, but Omega three is something I see a lot of my clinical practice.

People coming to me and being like, I'm eating, I'm buying these Omega three supplements.

You're like, really, that does nothing.

Even if you have heart disease, there's no reason for it.

And in this day and age, when money is tight because everybody's feeling the pinch of inflation,

Not having to spend $20 to $30 per month on supplements that don't work makes a huge difference, and that is the harm of these things.

You'll get people who say, well, what's the harm?

There's no downside.