VIDEO: Do Health Supplements Even Work? (Patreon)

Do Health Supplements Even Work?

Are Vitamins and Supplements a Scam? Click my CoPilot link https://go.mycopilot.com/johnny-harris to get a 14-day FREE trial AND 20% off your first month of personalized fitness if you sign up before February 1st! The supplements industry — with all its vitamins, weight loss pills, workout powders, and hormones — has been growing exponentially over the last couple of decades despite there being no increased regulations for them. We wanted to know — are supplements dangerous to take, and are they even effective? Thank you to the experts we spoke with that helped with our research in this story: Dr. C. Michael White, Pharm.D., FCP, FCCP Dr. F. Perry Wilson, MD, MSCE Dr. Edzard Ernst, MD, PhD, MAE, FMedSci, FRSB, FRCP And thank you to Ryan Howkins, the founder of the Lion’s Mane Recovery subreddit, who brought the Lion’s Mane story to our team. Resources to look up supplements and vitamins: US Pharmacopeia: https://www.usp.org/ NSF: https://www.nsf.org/ My next video is live on Nebula NOW! It's about how the world economy is changing. Watch now: https://nebula.tv/videos/johnnyharris-how-the-world-economy-is-changing Check out all my sources for this video here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QpeAf2LG20HzloFg59R8hVI1W4J3NmaaHwJ9YU08niE/edit?usp=sharing -- VIDEO CHAPTERS -- 0:00 Intro 3:57 How the Supplement Industry Works 12:25 What the Science Says 17:34 Supplements Gone Bad 25:19 What Can Be Done 28:28 Announcements & Outro Check out my new channel with Sam Ellis - Search Party: https://youtube.com/@Search-Party Get access to behind-the-scenes vlogs, my scripts, and extended interviews over at https://www.patreon.com/johnnyharris Do you have an insider tip or unique information on a story? Do you have a suggestion for a story you want us to cover? Submit to the Tip Line: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdpNs1ykIwd7KNkwntN897X_SX9hJ8WiTH_erlLU_bQp2GGLg/viewform?usp=sharing I made a poster about maps - check it out: https://store.dftba.com/products/all-maps-are-wrong-poster Custom Presets & LUTs [what we use]: https://store.dftba.com/products/johnny-iz-luts-and-presets The music for this video, created by our in house composer Tom Fox, is available on our music channel, The Music Room! Follow the link to hear this soundtrack and many more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hDeO03FIZ4 About: Johnny Harris is an Emmy-winning independent journalist and contributor to the New York Times. Based in Washington, DC, Harris reports on interesting trends and stories domestically and around the globe, publishing to his audience of over 3.5 million on Youtube. Harris produced and hosted the twice Emmy-nominated series Borders for Vox Media. His visual style blends motion graphics with cinematic videography to create content that explains complex issues in relatable ways. - press - NYTimes: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/09/opinion/democrats-blue-states-legislation.html NYTimes: https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000007358968/covid-pandemic-us-response.html Vox Borders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLrFyjGZ9NU NPR Planet Money: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1072164745 - where to find me - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/johnny.harris/ Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@johnny.harris Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JohnnyHarrisVox Iz's (my wife’s) channel: https://www.youtube.com/iz-harris - how i make my videos - Tom Fox makes my music, work with him here: https://tfbeats.com/ I make maps using this AE Plugin: https://aescripts.com/geolayers/?aff=77 All the gear I use: https://www.izharris.com/gear-guide - my courses - Learn a language: https://brighttrip.com/course/language/ Visual storytelling: https://www.brighttrip.com/courses/visual-storytelling