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Most dietary supplements lack scientific evidence for efficacy and are a waste of money for the average consumer.
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Most dietary supplements are ineffective and have no strong scientific evidence supporting their use.
“there are something like twenty thousand or more dietary supplements on sale just in the United States so uh the vast majority of them don't work and even the ones that do work might provide you with a small benefit maybe you know up to three percent performance enhancement”
StarTalk · May 2023 · 1 episode · 107K views on this topicExotic fat burner supplements are a complete waste of money and provide no actual fat-burning benefits.
“when it comes to these kind of exotic supplements, especially the fat burning category of supplements, um I mean, you can you can go ahead and waste your money, but that's exactly what you're doing. It does absolutely nothing uh for fat burning. Yeah, it's a total waste of time and money.”
Mind Pump Show · Mar 2026 · 2 episodes · 28K views on this topicMost of the money spent on dietary supplements is essentially wasted because they are usually ineffective or potentially harmful.
“My intuition is that the majority of that money would be just as well flushed down a toilet.”
Freakonomics Radio Network · Jan 2026 · 1 episode · 14K views on this topic
Fat burner supplements are a massive waste of money that users should avoid.
“Here's an incredible waste of time and money. It's the category of supplements known as fat burners. If you're spending your money on fat burners, here's what you should do. Take your money, light it on fire.”
Mind Pump Show · Mar 2026 · 0 episodes · 0 views on this topicConsumers should prioritize products that undergo third-party validation to ensure safety, quality, and label accuracy.
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Companies must perform rigorous, frequent third-party testing on all raw ingredients and finished batches to ensure safety and confirm that products meet their label specifications.
“you want to have very very specific uh specifications in terms of exactly what the what raw ingredients are going to be, uh what testing they have to hit before you're even going to include them in a formula. And then you have to test them every single time they go in and you have to test uh, after ”
Mind Pump Show · Nov 2025 · 1 episode · 20K views on this topicScott Eastwood believes that using pre-packaged, high-quality, third-party tested supplements is an efficient and effective way to optimize health for performance.
“This is the best supplements on the planet sourced from Japan, America, and Switzerland. North Performance, Dr. Massi. Do you know him? He's a Stanford doc. He started the company. I'm involved. I'm I'm getting, you know, heavily involved in the ownership of it. And I'm excited about it.”
Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2026 · 1 episode · 670K views on this topicConsumers should prioritize products that offer third-party validation for label claim accuracy, as variation in quality exists across the industry.
“there will be some EPA DHA like the different longchain fatty acids that you'll find. We have to write out like we get 1,250 milligs of this and then there's like label claim requirements. So if somebody were to test it, like if somebody took this through a lab, we should be within certain limits of”
Max Lugavere · Nov 2025 · 1 episode · 6K views on this topicThe vast majority of commercially available supplements are problematic due to their supply chains and manufacturing processes.
“it's not that I think that all supplements are bad. only I don't know I 97 98% of them largely due to the supply chains”
Ben Greenfield Life · Mar 2026 · 1 episode · 2K views on this topicExtracted by a model; may misattribute who said what.
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