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Why did Denmark ban Ashwagandha?

2 Jun 2023

Over the past couple of years, there鈥檚 been a lot of buzz about ashwagandha. This herb, estimated to have an annual market value of $42 million USD is available in health food stores and on Amazon,...

Fake Drugs, Real Problems

31 May 2023

We are drowning in fraud. Simply defined, fraud is intentional deception, usually for monetary gain. We have become used to robo-calls telling us that we have been subjected to a tax audit and had...

What the 鈥淏ig Pharma鈥 Accusation Gets Right (and Wrong) About the Drug Industry

26 May 2023

Grievances against the pharmaceutical industry are common in new media spaces. Influencers on Instagram tell us to shun drugs and embrace the 鈥渘atural.鈥 Diatribes are shared on Facebook against the...

Looping in to Chat GPT

24 May 2023

Like so many, I have been experimenting with Chat GPT, the artificial intelligence technology that can answer questions or produce articles on a given topic in humanlike conversational language. In...

Don鈥檛 Believe Everything You Hear, Especially when it Comes to Magical Solutions for Hearing Loss

19 May 2023

In the first 20 minutes of the movie Sound of Metal, the audience watches a young musician lose his hearing. As the background buzz of car motors, conversation, and birdsong fades to silence, we...

Saffron for Teenage Moodiness? The Evidence Is Immature

19 May 2023

鈥淐linically proven鈥 is a very malleable term. What exactly does it mean for an intervention to have been clinically proven to work? In the world of dietary supplements, the veracity of this phrase...

Jumping the Gun?

17 May 2023

Ready, Set, Go鈥. for Ozempic. That鈥檚 what the incessant television ads suggest. 鈥淎sk your doctor about Ozempic,鈥 the ads advise, without mentioning what the drug is for. The marketer鈥檚 hope is that...

Chlorophyll Water Won鈥檛 Clear Your Skin

12 May 2023

Our social media feeds are filled with buzzwords like anti-inflammatory, detoxifying, or antimicrobial. Chlorophyll water is no exception. There are countless social media posts claiming that...

Another TikTok Trend Not Based on Science: Vabbing

10 May 2023

Vabbing, as the name perhaps suggests, involves the dabbing of vaginal secretions onto so-called pulse points of the body鈥攚rists, neck, inside the elbows鈥攋ust as you would a fragrance.

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