Top 17 Best-Selling Supplements Reviewed

The Nutrition Science Podcast

Dr. Adrian Chavez

Science, Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

4.8 • 633 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Do you ever feel confused when walking down the supplement aisle (or shopping online? You are not alone; there are thousands of supplements on the market in different forms, doses, and formulations you almost need a PhD to make sense of it all. Lucky for you, I got a PhD and did that research, and I am going to break it down for you here. In this episode, we cover the top 17 best-selling supplements, what they do, who they can be beneficial for, who shouldn't take them, and more. ...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Nutrition Science Podcast, where we help you cut through the noise and make informed science-based decisions about nutrition and your health.
0:11.4	Welcome back to another episode of the Nutrition Science Podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Adrian Chavez, and today we're going to be discussing the top 17 bestselling supplements in the United States.
0:22.5	So the reason that I decided to record and publish this episode is because I get so many
0:28.0	questions about supplements. When I do a Q&A on my social media, probably half or more of the
0:35.1	questions that I get are surrounding supplements. And when I work
0:38.9	with people and have conversations with people, I find that there are a lot of people who are
0:44.3	taking several supplements that they probably don't need, that they don't really understand
0:48.6	very well, but were promoted to them through ads or through someone who they follow and they just decided to take it.
0:55.9	So what I want to do in this episode is give a quick overview of the top 17 bestselling supplements,
1:02.7	some of the potential benefits that you may experience from taking these supplements,
1:07.0	and some of the reasons why you might want to avoid taking some of these supplements.
1:10.6	This is going to be a quick summary of each of the various products just to give you an
1:15.3	introduction. What I also did is I put together a more detailed supplement guide that you can
1:22.2	download. I will post that link in the show notes. Or you can go to Dr. Adrian Chavez.com
1:27.1	forward slash supplement,
1:28.4	and you'll find that guide there where there's going to be more details about forms of supplements
1:32.8	and dosing.
1:34.1	But what I want to do in this episode is just kind of introduce you to the various supplements
1:38.9	and discuss when they might be helpful and for who and also why you shouldn't need to take these.
1:45.1	Because I think that's the important part that's missing in a lot of these supplement advertisements,
1:50.4	a lot of the people who are introducing you to supplements, influencers podcasts.
1:54.7	They're talking about the quote unquote benefits of the supplements,
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