The TRUTH about Supplements! 

I really dislike the hot take of 'we don't need supplements because we're food secure and wasteful'. In the us a lot of households are both food secure and malnourished. Adequate/excessive calories don't equate with proper nutrition, some nutrients are difficult to get, especially if you have a poor diet

Supplements are overhyped, and many people take unnecessary supplements. HOWEVER, you’re right that some people can benefit from some supplements, but that’s even with a balanced diet. I’m a doctor and have to take 3x the recommended vitamin D daily allowance because I never see the light of day. Ashwagandha has helped my stress a lot, and there are tons of peer-reviewed and replicated studies that back that up.

Side note, vegans, please take B12. It's necessary if you're vegan

so fortifying milk, bread and rice with vitamins also a scam or nah? youtuber thinks taking zinc is a scam and just drinks soymilk to cure his cold

One thing you didn't touch on is that many fruits and vegetables today have less vitamins and minerals than they had 50 years ago. So you'd have to eat more of them to get the same nutrition.

I think a lot of people are missing the point of the video, there's instances where supplements are necessary like when you have a deficiency and it's completely fine to take them because that's their reason of existence, to supplement what you can't get during your meals. The problem comes when people take them as a way to cope with their bad alimentary habits or use them as basically meal replacements

Dear person reading this you are a dream come true!😃

Are we too lazy or are we overworked, underpaid, and over stressed to really take the time to take care of ourselves properly?

I take D vitamins because I am a shut in, and I take iron and vitamin c because of my poor diet. Not all supplements are bullshit if you actually need them for a medical condition. You should be aware that they are not required by law to put vitamin c in the pills they sell as vitamin c, though. We need supplements as regulated as all over the counter drugs.

I think you’re forgetting that supplements are “supplemental.” its not supposed to be in place of healthy food or exercise but in addition to.

A lot of people commenting have said to consult with your health care professional but I think that this is problematic, not only because it might be expensive in places like the USA but the majority of GPs are not highly trained in nutrition, even now. They’ll look at blood test results and say, you’re deficient, take a supplement, when it is much more nuanced than that.

the reason why some vitamins are like 1100% of daily recommendation is its absorption rate. if the body is terrible at absorbing, then obviously they will need to pack more.

Man, this video made me feel all the guilt. I’m currently spending almost $100/month (US) for AG1. I know I should eat healthy, but I just don’t take the time to do the meal prep. This 100% laziness. I already knew everything you said in this video, but it still felt like a slap in the face. You’ve inspired me to grow up and get my butt in the kitchen. ❤

As someone who has given themselves scurvy TWICE, I'm going to keep taking my vitamin c tablet. Having your skin fall off SUCKS.

Interesting take. I think covering some of the third party verifications would have been a good add. If you need/want to take vitamins, it's important to make sure they have third party testing.

One nuance about advice to eat healthy nutrition rich food as the first step (which I completely agree with): there is very little measurement of actual nutrition from produce that we buy today. There is plenty of research about sharply declining values of nutrition in veggies and fruits over the last few decades, you can easily look it up.

I might disagree with the statement that most people are "too lazy" to be healthy. Supplements are attractive because people are overworked and exhausted, I think. I'm a full-time college student with a part time job, and trying to get into medical school means I am doing research, volunteering, and constantly studying to keep straight As. Forget when I actually get to medical school or become a doctor! And the same is true of people in minimum wage jobs working 60 hours a week to support families on poverty pay. And people in "good-paying" jobs who are nevertheless overworked by a corporate machine. If you have a 45-minute commute because you can't live in affordable housing anywhere near where you work, you've lost 1.5 hours of your day right there. If you work 8 hours a day, make it 9 because you have to make up that lunch break. Forget eating a healthy lunch unless you have time to meal prep. Except you probably don't if you also have kids, or pets, and/or a home to keep clean, etc. Add in all the other chores of daily living, and it's truly very challenging

When i seriously started working out i used to take a multivitamin supplement. It was meant for bodybuilders, and they emphasized that it contains a lot more vitamins and minerals than what a regular, moderately physically active person needs. It contained six different pills that i needed to take every day (i think one or two of them was just a capsule of fish oil). It didn´t make me feel sick or anything, but it colored my pee neon green (apparently it´s the effect of surplus vitamins that my body could´t process so it just rejected them) and it made my breath stink like fish for the whole day. After two months i stopped taking it, and nothing really changed, didn´t feel any better or worse.

Before retirement I worked for over twenty two years in the Natural Food Industry in the Supplement part of that Industry. I worked mainly in retail, six years as a team leader at Wholefoods Market in Northern California. I have read hundreds of books, attended dozens of trainings and Naturopathic Conferences and continue (at 71 years old) to continue to research and learn. I have probably tried over a thousand products including, herbs, vitamins, minerals, enzymes, powdered green drinks amino acids and food extracts. To find what really works and who are the really good companies takes a lot of work, unless you have someone really trustworthy to guide you. Truth is, the soil is depleted and so the food is depleted-especially in minerals-so some supplementation is going to be called for. There are also a number of bio-hacks that are useful for strengthening bones, preventing muscle loss, reducing oxidative stress and inflammation etc. So, all supplementation is not useless, yet a lot of it is. Why? Because of ignorance. Most are just rolling the dice and trying things.out hoping for a good result. I did the same thing, but because of how long I have been doing this I have been able to figure a few things out. Testing for nutrient deficiencies is the best way to see if you really need to supplement. A poor man's way would be to go to Cronometer and plug in your daily diet and see what Vitamin's and Mineral's you are deficient in. The diet is foundational, cooking your own fresh organic food is crucial.

The only supplement I've ever felt that I truly needed is Iron. I have had a history of anemia so it's vital that I have enough Iron and even though I eat rather healthy, I don't get enough in the food I eat every. So I agree that unless you are not getting enough vitamins in the food you eat supplements are a option but by no means should be your first option.