Supplements can do more harm than good if taken without medical advice

Despite our best efforts to maintain a balanced diet, we find ourselves with nutritional deficiencies, lacking in vitamins and minerals. We reach for different supplements intending to replenish our bodies with what it needs nutritionally, as well as to improve our sleep and moods and to attain better overall vitality. Our lives are stressful, and our commitments are abundant, which explains our poor diets and the need to spend money on these pills.

Popping a pill may sound easy, giving you one less thing to worry about, but as studies show, we need to pay more attention to what we willingly put down our throats with a sip of water and the reasons why.

The concern is not whether or not the ingredients in the specific pill work, but the quantity of the ingredients as potency is important. In 2017 the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that the labels of many supplements did not accurately reflect the different components of the product - the supplements contained higher amounts than what the labels claimed.