Sarah Gonzalez

And they could now claim this as long as they avoided a couple keywords.

Wait, is one of those okay and the other one is not okay?

Yeah.

They sound exactly the same.

Yeah, so I have trouble distinguishing.

This is the thing that the supplement maker, Frank, was kind of like guiding us on, right?

He's like, you can't say it burns fat.

You got to say it supports metabolism.

So here's a little news you can use.

Melanie says, if the front of your supplement bottle says supports metabolism,

X or promotes Y, that should be a signal to you that it is not actually proven to do anything.

If you turn over your supplement bottle right now, you will even see in tiny fine print that the claims on the bottle have, quote, not been evaluated by the FDA.

So what's the point?

What's the point of a supplement if it's not supposed to actually work on the thing it's claiming to work on?

Hopes and dreams.

The law also says you don't even have to prove your supplement is safe before you sell it to people.

Unless, there's one unless, unless it is a brand new, never before used ingredient in a supplement.

Then you do need to show some paperwork.

And if that doesn't make you feel super safe, then you should know that there is also a workaround to this rule.

And there's one supplement more than any other supplement, according to Melanie, that really exemplifies this fun workaround.