{"id":743,"date":"2018-06-05T06:02:46","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T06:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=743"},"modified":"2018-06-07T06:09:22","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T06:09:22","slug":"are-those-trendy-vitamins-really-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=743","title":{"rendered":"Are Those Trendy Vitamins Really Safe?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>These days, essentially every trendy brand prides itself on giving customers &#8220;only what you need, and nothing you don&#8217;t,&#8221; with no middleman, from the finest materials out available.<\/p>\n<p>And recently, a slew of vitamin companies for millennials have tried to use this marketing tactic to appear more transparent about what ingredients go into a tiny pill.<\/p>\n<p>Ritual, for example, is a multivitamin brand that was launched &#8220;for skeptics by skeptics.&#8221; Their website (which, by the way, has a minimalist layout that&#8217;s like catnip for millennials) says: &#8220;We believe in simplicity, traceability, and ingredients that work best in the body. You deserve to know exactly what you\u2019re getting and where it\u2019s coming from.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a perfect world, the supplement companies would follow all these guidelines and create a safe product. But since that&#8217;s not always the case, once a supplement is on the market, the FDA analyzes the safety of the dietary ingredients through purity and quality testing, and they can pull any products that are &#8220;misbranded, adulterated, or otherwise unsafe,&#8221; according to the FDA.<\/p>\n<p>Your best bet is to talk to your doctor or healthcare provider about whether or not you really need to be taking supplements in the first place.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.refinery29.com\/dietary-supplement-vitamin-regulation\">Refinery 29<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These days, essentially every trendy brand prides itself on giving customers &#8220;only what you need, and nothing you don&#8217;t,&#8221; with&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-vitamins-supplements","tag-vitamins-supplements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743","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=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":745,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions\/745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}