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Supplements may be useful when dietary intake is insufficient or osteoporosis is present, but excessive intake should be avoided.

From Science Daily • Jun. 6, 2026

Supplements are less about biology and more about identity: a daily exercise of personal agency over one’s body.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025

Supplements have a limited effect because our body can only absorb a set amount of any vitamin or mineral at a time.

From Salon • May 1, 2024

Supplements, thanks to a fun legal loophole, can be sold without the burden of safety and efficacy data that Food and Drug Administration–approved medications must generate.

From Slate • Mar. 27, 2024

Supplements: April 1956 to September 1956; October 1956 to March 1957; April 1957 to September 1957.

From Report of the National Library Service for the Year Ended 31 March 1958 by New Zealand. National Library Service