Dr. Jeffrey Bland, a nutritional biochemist with 40 years of experience, argues that supplements aren't wasteful when tailored to your individual biochemistry and nutritional gaps. Most people aren't deficient but have suboptimal levels of vitamin D, B12, and magnesium that supplements can address.
Are dietary supplements junk? Are they a waste of money? Do they create expensive urine, as often people talk about? Hi, I'm Dr. Jeffrey Bland. I'm a nutritional biochemist, been in the field for more than 4 decades, and I'd say that dietary supplements used in the right way, in the right place, the right time, with the right amount, are very valuable because we are all biochemically individual. We all have individual diets, we have individual needs, our genes are different. And there are places where we can have gaps in our nutrition, where we're not deficient, but we're insufficient for specific nutrients. And certain of these nutrients like vitamin D, vitamin B12, the mineral magnesium stand out commonly in being insufficient in people's diets. So yes, in a prudent health promotion program, dietary supplements in prudence are very valuable.
