Thanks Emily. Well said. And just to add: don’t ever buy or sign up on repeat for supplements recommended by influencers or podcasters or celebs just because they say it makes them “feel good”. I personally am aggressively marketed at on social media - probiotics, powders, shakes etc. My healthy friends constantly send me ones that are marketed to them to ask my opinion. My advice is always the same - start with diet - more fruit and veg! You can get a lot of food for the price of some of these pills you don’t even need.
This was a reassuring post to me. I only recently quit taking supplements after years of thinking I was being healthy by taking them.
I'm glad it's helpful! And there's a lot of conflicting information out there that can make it hard to know what to do for your health - so I get it 🧡
Thanks Emily. Well said. And just to add: don’t ever buy or sign up on repeat for supplements recommended by influencers or podcasters or celebs just because they say it makes them “feel good”. I personally am aggressively marketed at on social media - probiotics, powders, shakes etc. My healthy friends constantly send me ones that are marketed to them to ask my opinion. My advice is always the same - start with diet - more fruit and veg! You can get a lot of food for the price of some of these pills you don’t even need.
Absolutely! the supplement market is the wild west, and easy to get sucked in with beautiful labelling and aggressive marketing adverts.