supplements are not patentable... so no private company can inject 100 million dollar in clinic trials where the outcome is that even proven to work, everybody can just make and sell...
the disgusting thing is, in europe, many supplements are now forbidden to import by codex...
like DHEA... or melatonin above 300 mcg ... while fully available to the rest of the world
and why you think ? big pharma and patentable HRT , etc...
I would love to have the freedom to try natural alternatives to the expensive with FRAUD ridden big pharma medication ...
recently some things that got you banned a few months ago about c.... starts now to be proven FACTS... but the people proclaiming in that time (no not me) where conspiracy theorists...
our food is depleted of nutrients, with only NPK used in agriculture... the rests of the 87 minerals it is lacking , you can compare in taste and lack of nutrients...
there are a lot of crap cheap costco/walmart bull crap products, but you have to learn to buy quality with natural ingredients instead of chemical pseudo equivalents...
there are many diseases of nutritional deficiencies creates by big pharma meds, but off course, nobody cares, certainly not your MD, that wants you out in a record time, prescribing what makes him/her and the hospital big money