{"id":5582,"date":"2018-01-03T14:41:22","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T19:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.willclower.com\/blog\/?p=5582"},"modified":"2019-06-11T23:17:17","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T03:17:17","slug":"wait-so-supplements-dont-help-whooda-thunk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=5582","title":{"rendered":"Wait. So Supplements DONT Help? Whooda Thunk?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our physiology is what it is, how it is, and why it is because of its relationship with this Earth and the <img data-opt-id=1335468406  fetchpriority=\"high\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7428\" src=\"https:\/\/mlcmmqmgggev.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:200\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.willclower.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/colorful-meal-300x200.jpg?resize=300%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mlcmmqmgggev.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:4000\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/colorful-meal.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mlcmmqmgggev.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:4000\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/colorful-meal.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mlcmmqmgggev.i.optimole.com\/w:1024\/h:4000\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/colorful-meal.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mlcmmqmgggev.i.optimole.com\/w:1730\/h:1155\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/colorful-meal.jpg 1730w, https:\/\/mlcmmqmgggev.i.optimole.com\/w:1470\/h:4000\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/colorful-meal.jpg 1470w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>things that grow on it.<\/p>\n<p>That relationship is so intertwined, so long and broad and deep that the very notion that some invented pill could come along and improve our health is straight out of Crazytown, Loonyville, and Nonsensicalburg.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sciencealert.com\/we-might-have-been-wrong-to-tell-people-to-take-daily-vitamins-new-study-suggests\">link to article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So. Now the data come out on the health impact of supplements, and it does no more than confirm common sense &#8212; that they don&#8217;t help your health status, although they do provide you will really expensive pee, if you&#8217;re into that.<\/p>\n<p>Alternatively, you could eat food and do that in control. Just thinking out loud.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our physiology is what it is, how it is, and why it is because of its relationship with this Earth and the things that grow on it. That relationship is &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[494],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/mlcmmqmgggev.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/colorful-meal.jpg?fit=1730%2C1155&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7Qv5g-1s2","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5819,"url":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=5819","url_meta":{"origin":5582,"position":0},"title":"Nutrition Month is 50 Shades of Crazy. 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Got Joint\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Articles&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Articles","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?cat=494"},"img":{"alt_text":"Bookmark and Share","src":"https:\/\/mlcmmqmgggev.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/s7.addthis.com\/static\/btn\/v2\/lg-share-en.gif?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1890,"url":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=1890","url_meta":{"origin":5582,"position":2},"title":"Dear Will, \u00a0 My family\u2026","author":"Will Clower","date":"February 25, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Dear Will, \u00a0 My family has always been health conscious and we try to do the right thing for our health \u2013 because it\u2019s important!\u00a0 \u00a0 But I\u2019m getting mixed messages from the news when I hear about supplements. 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