Supplements: Flushing your money down the toilet in expensive urine

[BlueStreak]

96. Please name some names

I tried to find some and I couldn't identify any. It is the consumer products companies (J&J, P&G, et al) that have ownership in some of the big supplement companies. I couldn't find any case of a top 10 Big Pharma company (Astrazenica, Lilly, Squibb, Glaxo, Merck et al) owning any of the top 10 vitamin & supplement companies.

If there are any, I'd expect it to be Bayer or Squibb.

I did find some articles speculating that some of the big Pharma companies may start making acquisitions in that sector because they aren't able to grow their top lines fast enough with their exotic, expensive drugs.

But what if a Pharma does own a supplement company? It is still far more profitable for them to sell expensive, exotic drugs, so they still have plenty of incentive to trash vitamins and supplements. It is called hedging your bets.

Again, the studies may be proper, but they are so narrow that they cannot possibly justify the headline that all supplements are a waste of money. Therefore, the entire thing should be treated as bullshit -- "science" with an agenda. That is unfortunate because I have no doubt that a lot of money is wasted on supplements that do nothing. It would be nice to have some useful information instead of the BS this article is dishing out.