{"id":1999,"date":"2021-08-19T02:28:45","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T02:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=1999"},"modified":"2021-08-19T02:28:45","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T02:28:45","slug":"what-are-the-supplements-you-take-really-doing-to-your-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=1999","title":{"rendered":"What are the supplements you take really doing to your health?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an\u00a0article\u00a0published in\u00a0<em>Australian Prescriber,\u00a0<\/em>University of Queensland Adjunct Associate Professor of Pharmacology\u00a0Geraldine Moses\u00a0has warned of major potential harms associated with the use of dietary supplements.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018One reason for the persistent popularity of vitamins and minerals is the perception that they are harmless,\u2019 says Moses. But that perception masks a troublesome reality.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018When it comes to complementary medicines, most consumers are only given information about the possible benefits of these products, and little if anything about risk \u2013 and there\u2019s always potential risk.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The advice comes as supplement use is soaring. In July, a US survey claimed that nearly 30 per cent of Americans are now taking more supplements than they were before the COVID-19 pandemic. Commissioned by the US health non-profit Samueli Foundation, the\u00a0Harris Poll concluded that 76 per cent of US citizens were taking supplements.<\/p>\n<p>Keep reading at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.echo.net.au\/2021\/08\/what-are-the-supplements-you-take-really-doing-to-your-health\/\">Echo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an\u00a0article\u00a0published in\u00a0Australian Prescriber,\u00a0University of Queensland Adjunct Associate Professor of Pharmacology\u00a0Geraldine Moses\u00a0has warned of major potential harms associated with the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2000,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alternative-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2001,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999\/revisions\/2001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}