>>13642078A lot of the people who say that vitamin and mineral supplements are a scam tend to be commies who hate the idea of people making money selling shit in general. Some are holistic/naturalist wackjobs who think we need to consume some kind of magical life-force that can only be found in living organisms and starts to diminish the second you take a fruit off a tree. The most reasonable are the ones who say "you don't need it, just eat healthy" but fail to understand that in recent decades foods have gotten far less nutritious, so all the nutritional info you find online about fruits and vegetables are overestimated approximations.
The real scam in supplements is herbs. Their only legal requirement is they contain some of the plant matter they're advertised as containing, not the active chemicals found in the plant, which can be completely absent. Plenty of imported supplements contain random grass clippings instead of the actual thing, and a lot of the popular herbs have had studies showing they don't do jack shit even when they are the real thing.
Rather than bothering with the extracts of some dumb fruits, supplement with something that'd be found in a normal healthy body. If you're actually trying to solve a health problem, don't blindly take advice, try to figure out why the problem is there in the first place.
