You're listening to Well Now, Sleyts Podcast on Health and Wellness.

I'm Kavita Patel and I'm Maya Feller.

As humans have evolved, so have our eating patterns

and whole body health.

I'd say that consumer confusion

is at an all-time high, especially

when it comes to what we actually need to be well.

And never is this more true than in the Vitamin and Supplement Industry.

Maya, it's so true.

I can't tell you how many times, whether it's honestly family members, friends,

patients, or just scrolling through social media every couple of seconds I see some celebrity some fitness expert and in many cases some sort of

doctor and I put quotes around that hocking some vitamin or supplement and I can't

there's part of me Maya that after so many of those

ads I start to think well maybe there's something true maybe there's something real

maybe I should be taking these vitamins and my I've got you know like you I think between us we've got

about 40 years of school and 25 years of experience each one of us in the clinical setting

so you when you look in history, this dates back to literally snake oil and kind of

18th century times when people really had nothing to promote other than some of these like over the counter at the time.

They were just things that people found naturally occurring.

People would put potions in bottles and marketed that as promoting health.

The truth and now fast forward several centuries

we know that at best they probably don't do much for you at all and at worst they have

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