The world takes $40 billion of dietary supplements – from vitamin A to yohimbe bark – every year. Yet, the jury is still out on whether most of them work. In America, the FDA isn’t allowed to approve supplements, and no one can say what is in your pills.
# Stuff You Should Know - Dietary Supplements
In this episode, Josh and Chuck dive into the wild world of dietary supplements, exploring why Americans spend billions of dollars a year on vitamins, minerals, and botanical extracts with surprisingly little government oversight. They uncover how a 1994 law essentially deregulated the supplement industry, leaving the FDA powerless to stop contaminated or misleading products from hitting store shelves, and discover that some supplements contain hidden prescription drugs while others might just give you really expensive urine. Along the way, they discuss everything from vitamin D extracted from sheep's wool to the deadly ephedra craze of the 90s, plus they tackle the confusing and often contradictory science around which supplements actually work and which ones you should avoid.
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