Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Is Your Supplement Helping You or Hurting You?

28 Oct 2023 · 1 min

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Aaron Hartman, MD introduces concerns about dietary supplements — questioning their sources, contents, and evaluation. He warns supplements may be contaminated with heavy metals (lead, mercury) or adulterated with medications, and stresses physicians must prioritize 'do no harm' when recommending supplements; he plans follow-up blogs and webinars to educate the public.

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Is your supplement hurting you or helping you? Where are you getting your supplements from? Do you even know what's in them? Have they been evaluated? And did you know there's a high possibility these things can be tainted with lead mercury? They could be doped with different medications to help get quote, unquote effects. Were you aware of that? I'd like to talk about this over the next series of different blogs and webinars and whatnot, so people can start to realize that supplements can supplement. And as a physician, the very first thing we're supposed to do is harm. Which means if we're going to recommend something like a vitamin D to help with your immune system, we're going to recommend something to help with your gut function. At the very least, it should do no harm.