Ep. 16 - Science Vs Bullshit - MCT oil and cholesterol concerns, Ketone supplements, Mushroom gummies & How much people are actually paid to promote supplements
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Emma Storey-Gordon
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🗓️ 19 January 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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How much people are actually paid to promote supplements
MCT oil and cholesterol concerns
Mushroom gummies
Ketone supplements
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to this episode of Science versus Bullshit, which annoyingly I recorded and the audio |
| 0:07.1 | quality was so bad that I'm doing it again. But I think it was a good episode and I hope this will be |
| 0:14.2 | even better and the audio would be significantly better and there'll be a lot of take homes for people. |
| 0:19.3 | So here we go. Okay, so first of all, I'm back. |
| 0:23.3 | And I have a lot to get through. And if you have been sending me stuff, thank you. I have put it |
| 0:29.0 | all in a superb file on my laptop somewhere in a big word document. So I will get through |
| 0:35.2 | everything. But I decided instead of trying to |
| 0:37.5 | rush through everything, I would go and kind of deep dive on a few topics because I think that's |
| 0:42.1 | much more beneficial. And then people can search and look back and find what they're interested in. |
| 0:47.8 | Over the break, what I've realized is I feel like the industry is worse than ever when it comes to pushing crap supplements and |
| 0:57.4 | diets. And I would say this is especially true for supplements. And it's most likely because |
| 1:04.2 | influencers and celebrities are paid a huge amount of money to promote them. And I mean like insane. So back in the day when I first |
| 1:15.0 | started in the fitness industry, really all people were getting was like a 10% My Protein kickback or |
| 1:21.9 | something, right? People weren't making huge amounts of money from promoting supplements. And you might, |
| 1:26.8 | you know, if you were a sponsored athlete |
| 1:28.3 | or something, you might get given a couple hundred pounds worth of free supplements a month, |
| 1:33.9 | but like you weren't making a big amount of money from this. Now even pretty low level |
| 1:39.5 | influencers are making thousands of pounds. Most of them are probably making tens of thousands |
| 1:43.8 | of pounds. Like for one real probably making tens of thousands of pounds. |
| 1:45.0 | Like, for one reel, people will be paid tens to, you know, I know people that have been paid |
| 1:50.2 | 40,000 pounds to make one real. And they're not celebrities. They are influencers. And then if you're |
| 1:56.7 | kind of a mini celebrity, I also, by the way, these aren't like made up numbers. I know people |
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