Personalised Vitamin Plans
Sliced Bread
BBC
4.6 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
The vitamins market is growing fast, with many companies now offering bespoke vitamin plans that claim to produce the perfect personalised prescription just for you.
Our listener Gareth wants to know if this could be a quick fix for his low energy and poor diet so Greg is going to find out. He’s got his sights on the popular companies suggesting personalised plans based on a simple online questionnaire that builds up a picture of your vitamin deficiencies via questions about your exercise, stress levels, diet and more.
But these personalise plans comes at a premium - some go for close to £25 per month. Greg tests the questionnaires, speaks with nutritional experts, and sees whether Gareth thinks personalised vitamin plans are the best thing since sliced bread, or marketing BS.
This season we’re testing YOUR suggested wonder-products. If you’ve seen an advert, trend or fad and want to know what the evidence says drop us an email to sliced.bread@bbc.co.uk or drop Greg a message direct on his social media where he’s @gregfoot
PRESENTER: Greg Foot PRODUCER: Simon Hoban
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, podcast fan. |
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| 0:34.1 | BBC Sounds, music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:40.3 | Hello, I'm Greg Foote and welcome to the show that examines the wonder products, promising to make us happier, healthier and greener. |
| 0:52.4 | Are they really the best thing since sliced bread, or is it all |
| 0:55.9 | marketing hype? Today's topic of investigation is firmly in the world of wellness. But first, |
| 1:03.1 | if you would like to suggest a wonder product for me to look into, just send us an email to |
| 1:08.1 | sliced.bred at bbc.c..com.uk or drop me a message on Twitter or |
| 1:12.8 | Instagram where I'm at Greg Foote. This episode, we're talking vitamins. The vitamin market is |
| 1:18.7 | worth almost half a billion pounds. The vitamin products on offer, they seem to be constantly |
| 1:24.6 | evolving and they make a lot of bold claims. |
| 1:28.5 | In fact, it's such a big topic. I'm sure we're going to return to it again. |
| 1:31.8 | But today, we're focusing on something personal. |
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