Supplements: Flushing your money down the toilet in expensive urine

[longship]

18. So the obese are lacking in supplements?

I see adverts for those loose weight fast without dieting supplements all the time on the televisionary set. But what doctors say is quite simple. Eat less; exercise more. Make that a lifelong change.

But the supplement manufacturers continue to write checks they cannot cash.

Support your immune system! ( How? Let's see throw that works?)
Eliminate toxins! (If your liver shuts down, you're gonna die, but if you take our...)
Increase your erections! (Particularly insidious scam.)
Loose weight without dieting! (Right! :sarcasm
Cure all cancer!!! (Paging Hulda Clark, Stanislaw Burzynski, et al.)
Etc.

And don't get me started about that 18th century wonder of medicine, homeopathy, which has never cured anything, but is particularly good at making people feel better about their self-limiting or psychogenic symptoms. That would be called confirmation bias which is one of the very many logical fallacies used by both supplement manufacturers and those who swallow the hype.