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It rather amazes me the number of people who are suspicious of the pharma industry, who then turn around and put total and absolute faith in the supplement industry.

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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

knowing (or maybe not!) that over 80% of the vitamins are artificial and imported from China. No thanks.
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

It is not that hard to understand. Often, this perspective is not based upon anything empirical about the pharmaceutical or supplement products themselves, but on lack of trust of institutions. Many people in the alternative health community deeply distrust our healthcare system, big pharma & our governing institutions as a whole, and gravitate toward solutions just because they are alternative to what they distrust.
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

I think it's more being able to try something out that you don't have to go through a lot of gatekeeping to get access to, and sometimes it makes you feel better and sometimes it doesn't but at least you didn't have to pay thousands of dollars for it and it doesn't work anyway. If it's a $20 placebo, great, if it makes you feel better.
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

a shocking amount of pharmacuticals are essentially just rehashes of naturally cultivated bioactives.
in reply to know

@know FWIW, I wasn't making the argument that the pharmaceutical industry is trustworthy. 😉
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

i tend to resist popular criticism of the supplement industry. supplements are underrated.

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