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Optimal Health Daily - Fitness and Nutrition

3105: 3 Important Ways To Know If A Supplement You Are Taking Is Safe or Effective by Ben Greenfield

Optimal Health Daily - Fitness and Nutrition

Optimal Living Daily LLC

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Fitness

4.5677 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3105: Ben Greenfield explores how to avoid wasting money or risking your health on questionable supplements by drawing insights from experts Sol and Kurtis. Their advice highlights the risks of under-researched compounds, the limits of supplement regulation, and practical ways to evaluate safety and effectiveness before you buy. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://bengreenfieldlife.com/article/supplements-articles/ways-to-know-if-a-supplement-you-are-taking-is-safe/ Quotes to ponder: "Safety is not assured with over-the-counter products as sometimes there just isn’t enough research to fully conclude that it is safe." "Some supplements that can be perfectly safe to take under normal conditions are completely contraindicted when taking other supplements or pharmaceuticals." "While it would be inadvisable to just blindly disregard studies that are funded by supplement companies, they should be looked at with a bit more skepticism than normal." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Three important ways to know if a supplement you are taking is safe or effective.

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By Ben Greenfield of Ben GreenfieldLife.com. And I'm Dr. Neal, your host and narrator.

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Welcome back to Optimal Health Daily or O.D, where I act as your narrator of popular health

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and fitness blogs and always with a bit of my commentary at the end. But with that, let's get right

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to it and start optimizing your life.

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Three important ways to know if a supplement you are taking is safe or effective by Ben Greenfield

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of Ben Greenfield Life.com.

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I was tempted to title this post, The Art of Not Making Expensive Urine.

1:46.3

After all, you can easily spend lots and lots of your hard-earned money on nutrition supplements

1:50.8

and wind up peeing most of it away, or worse yet, inflicting permanent damage on your body, brain, and gut.

1:58.4

But I'll be the first to admit that there's a problem with me answering the

2:02.1

question of whether or not a supplement is safe or effective. And it is a bias problem I've been

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