Sep 18, 2026 \u2013 5.00am<\/p>\n
Most healthy people should ditch their daily supplements because they\u2019re a waste of money, says a prominent British doctor whose new book takes aim at the charlatans of the $6.8 trillion global wellness industry.<\/p>\n
Xand van Tulleken, best known for co-hosting the children\u2019s TV show Operation Ouch with twin brother Chris, says the science doesn\u2019t stack up for most \u2013 if not all \u2013 popular supplements, including old favourites such as multivitamins and fish oil, as well as trendy newcomers like collagen<\/a> and NMN, touted as an anti-ageing product.<\/a><\/p>\n Loading…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sep 18, 2026 \u2013 5.00am Most healthy people should ditch their daily supplements because they\u2019re a waste of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[103,61,60,446],"class_list":["post-627914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nutrition","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-nutrition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}