{"id":119798,"date":"2025-09-07T01:26:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T01:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/119798\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T01:26:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T01:26:10","slug":"how-shoddy-science-is-driving-a-supplement-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/119798\/","title":{"rendered":"How Shoddy Science Is Driving A Supplement Boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-80582\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/supplements.jpg\" alt=\"Closeup photo of supplements with a white bottle. Woman take omega 3, multivitamins, vitamins B, C, D, collagen tablets, probiotics, iron capsule. Girl hold vitamins daily. Top view.\" width=\"1400\" height=\"935\"  \/>Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/image-photo\/closeup-photo-supplements-white-bottle-pregnant-2280653921\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Shutterstock<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dietary supplements are big business, with one recent estimate showing the industry is worth almost <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grandviewresearch.com\/industry-analysis\/us-dietary-supplements-market-report#:~:text=Key%20Market%20Trends%20&amp;%20Insights,control%20of%20their%20nutritional%20needs.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">$64 billion<\/a> in the United States alone. Take a casual scroll through your social media and you\u2019ll find influencers hawking all kinds of supplements. But how effective are they? How are they regulated? And why are these \u201cnatural\u201d remedies so appealing to millions of Americans?<\/p>\n<p>To size up the science and culture of supplements, Host Flora Lichtman talks with supplement researcher Pieter Cohen, and Colleen Derkatch, author of <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/18570\/9781421445281\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Why Wellness Sells: Natural Health in a Pharmaceutical Culture. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sign Up For The Week In Science Newsletter<\/p>\n<p>Keep up with the week\u2019s essential science news headlines, plus stories that offer extra joy and awe.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn border\" style=\"padding: 12px 28px; font-size: 16px;\" href=\"https:\/\/secure.everyaction.com\/3p50t_qhE0W_H-H634sDrg2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Credit: Shutterstock Dietary supplements are big business, with one recent estimate showing the industry is worth almost $64&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[102,6636,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-119798","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nutrition","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-nutrition","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}