Supplements: Flushing your money down the toilet in expensive urine

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69. Anecdotes are by definition FUD.

Scientific research goes through peer review, where it is checked, and rechecked by others, many of whom would gleefully prove one wrong. That's an important part of it. Science is competitive, yet beholden to final arbitration by nature itself. There is no substitute for such open oversight. (And yes, it is never open enough, which is why Science Based Medicine is becoming a big thing.)

Take your vitamin C. I hope you don't have my life long kidney stone problems, which is triggered by vitamin C supplementation. But that's something a doctor would know. But by all means, decide for yourself what you need. Don't bother telling your doctors. It's none of their business.

Unless you're Suzanne Somers, who was self-medicating with bio-identical hormones (steroid analogues) which suppressed her immune system. She could have died from the resulting fungal infection which put her into the hospital. But Somers claims it was Western Medicine's fault when they misdiagnosed her because she apparently had said nothing to them about her personal hormone supplementation which would have led them directly to a diagnosis.

She still apparently pitches her woo.