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To: miniTAX

My experience has been that cheaper nutritional multi supplement brands are rarely as good as the expensive ones. Your experience may differ. If so, please give me some guidance. I am not in favor of paying more than is necessary to get good quality.


25 posted on 07/28/2025 12:32:48 AM PDT by Rockingham
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To: Rockingham

Nobody can personnaly know if a supplement, which is by definition has small and long term health effects, is better than another or not. If you can feel the difference, it’s just the placebo effect (especially due to the price), a psychological, unscientific and irreproducible thing.

I’ve seen eye watering priced magnesium supplement (from Juvamine, not to name names) that ends up being junk because it’s made of “marine magnesium”, a marketing term for magnesium oxyde, the cheapest and LEAST bio available magnesium form. That’s why I called out the price=quality claim, especially as a blanket statement in a field with so poor science as nutritional ‘science’.
Unfortunately, there is no simple solution against the wild claims and the marketing push, except extreme skepticism and a lot of personal research. Eating carnivore has dramatically improved my fitness so I don’t really need supplements anyway.


29 posted on 07/28/2025 1:32:16 AM PDT by miniTAX
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To: Rockingham; miniTAX
My experience has been that cheaper nutritional multi supplement brands are rarely as good as the expensive ones.

You're speaking from personal experience? Did you conduct trials on yourself? Were you really able to discern a difference in your state of health while taking one brand of MV, as opposed to another? What parameters were you measuring and recording, on a daily basis?

Regards,

32 posted on 07/28/2025 2:12:38 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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