The world of supplements is booming right now. It feels like there's a new buzzy ingredient— magnesium , lion’s mane , creatine , and more—showing up on our feeds every day. But here's the thing: In the United States, there are no standard regulations for their safety. As Dinar Sayani , MD, an internal medicine physician at Summit Medical Group, explains it, the US Food and Drug Administration does not approve supplements or their labeling before they are sold to the public. Companies have full rein to introduce what they want with little oversight. And with so much misinformation floating around, it’s very tempting to ingest one—or twenty—that you might not even need just because an algorithm fed it to you on your social feeds.
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