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There's nothing I can say to dissuade them.

And I'm not even going to try.

Supplements make people feel better.

There's absolutely no question about that.

Yeah, it's this other thing.

It has a fabulous placebo effect.

Magic.

There's plenty of evidence that supplements are fabulous placebos.

And, in fact, I can tell you a story about a study that proved that.

But it doesn't matter.

Life is really hard these days.

And if all it takes is a supplement pill to make people feel better, I'm not going to argue too much about it.

I love placebos.

Yeah, I do too.

They're so powerful.

I do too.

I do too.

So if you're going to buy supplements, you buy from the most reputable company you can find and keep your fingers crossed.

Well, I think what it reveals is how fragile our economy is.

We have 42 million people in this country, 16 million of them children, who can't rely on a consistent source of food from day to day and have to depend on a government program that provides them with benefits that really don't cover their food needs, only cover part of their food needs.