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Why Do People Lose Their Minds Over Other People Taking Supplements?

I was reading an article about the best single supplement that experts in their fields take every day. The list was good. Turmeric in your coffee to help with inflammation. Vitamin D for people living in a northern climate. Probiotics and prebiotics to help balance the gut. And then one expert decided that all his colleagues (why is it always a guy?) were wrong and that nobody should take any supplements, ever. Can we put this in context? The entire supplement industry in the U.S. is $42 billion  or maybe it's just $31 billion  or maybe that's how big the global market is growing in the next three years . Anyway, who cares if the numbers are off by billions, it's enormous! Or is it? We spend $2 billion in the U.S. on Oreo cookies last year, not cookies, just Oreos. We spent $ 36 billion at McDonalds . Not all fast food, just McDonalds. And in 2018 we spent $253 billion on soft drinks in the U.S. $32 billion on Coke alone. Now, I'm not saying that spending a...