This study got me thinking about supplements Some of them may be effective, but just haven't been studied well enough yet However, there are a surprisingly large number that have been demonstrated not to work Here are a few of my favorite exampleshttps://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1177439662782074880 …
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First up, one of the best - echinacea It's a pretty flower, it's in every herbal cold remedy you've ever seen, and the Cochrane collaboration found that there was good evidence it has no/minimal benefit in a systematic review in 2014 https://www.cochrane.org/CD000530/ARI_echinacea-for-preventing-and-treating-the-common-cold …pic.twitter.com/dFF8iEkGKS
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Next up - cinnamon for diabetes It's everyone's favorite spice, but several systematic reviews have now found either no benefit or only a tiny difference in some markers for diabetes If only it worked! https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0965229918309130 …pic.twitter.com/x0CML2RKSg
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Valerian. It's in every single herbal sleep remedy around It also doesn't do anything. Several systematic reviews have found the same thing - no benefits for insomnia, or even for sleep improvements in healthy people https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25644982 pic.twitter.com/z2KNAyeFyt
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Really? What did they put in the valerian tea i used to buy? Wiped me out like a baseball bat.
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Well, a lot of supplements are adulterated with other drugs so...
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