Health Experts Fear Avalanche Of Scam Supplements

From the medical site STAT News:

The health community is spinning with worry about the fate of science and evidence-based medicine if Trump makes good on his promise to let Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “go wild” on the nation’s leading health agencies. We are particularly concerned that RFK highlighted nutraceuticals, a subtype of dietary supplement, and peptide hormones, a common adulterant in the dietary supplements sold for weight loss and muscle building, as advancing human health.

In the absence of meaningful regulation from the FDA, the supplement industry will no doubt take Kennedy’s stance as a free pass to relentlessly promote its deceptive and predatory products. We recently published a study of TikTok videos promoting weight loss and muscle building supplements to young people, finding virtually none of the videos provided any scientific evidence that the products work — and almost none disclosed commercial sponsors.

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With the reelection of Donald Trump, we could be looking at further erosion of any semblance of oversight of supplements on the federal level. https://t.co/x8TtGtiqjz

— STAT (@statnews) November 11, 2024