The Dark Side of the Supplement Industry
Eat to Live
Jenna Fuhrman, Dr. Fuhrman
4.8 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | today on the eat to live podcast go to target go to Costco go to you know Walmart do not buy those |
| 0:07.2 | supplements so there are certain ingredients that you absolutely should get from food and should not be |
| 0:13.1 | supplemented so you said each individual ones are studied and the pictures and the pictures are |
| 0:18.2 | complicated you can't have some philosophical bent and decision that all supplements are good, all supplements are bad. |
| 0:23.6 | I take that with a grain of salt because the FDA approves millions of drugs that are awful for you. Hey, Dad and Eat to Live listeners. |
| 0:43.7 | We are doing a supplements podcast, but we are not talking about good supplements. |
| 0:48.7 | No, no. |
| 0:49.7 | We're talking about the dark side of the supplement industry. |
| 0:53.3 | So we're going to get into ingredients that are not favorable and what is in some of our products that are very common among shelves. |
| 1:02.4 | Yeah, I think that I've talked about this in the past, but I think that we do have to devote a podcast just to the subject because it's such an important subject |
| 1:11.8 | that people really have to understand thoroughly. |
| 1:14.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:14.6 | So to kick things off, which I didn't even know because you've been making supplements for the |
| 1:18.8 | majority of my life, what are some unsavory ingredients in supplements, like in mainstream |
| 1:26.0 | supplements that are on Amazon that tons of people |
| 1:29.1 | are buying with artificial flavors or ingredients? |
| 1:33.8 | Well, I think some of the most harmful part of the supplement industry is that dyes and |
| 1:41.6 | that they're using to color the pills, and they use red dyes and blue dyes and things like make them colorful. |
| 1:48.0 | And they're using artificial dyes and flavor and colorings, which is really harmful. |
| 1:52.0 | And plus the fact that they use, they use titanium dioxide to make things white. |
| 1:57.0 | And they also don't, you know, sometimes have harmful fillers, but they often don't you know sometimes have harmful fillers but they often don't |
| 2:04.4 | even contain what is said to be contained on the label so when they're missing what's |
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