Many flu and cold supplements lack scientific evidence supporting their effectiveness and are generally a waste of money. The best prevention against flu is vaccination. Claims that these supplements boost the immune system are oversimplified and misleading. Evidence-based treatments exist,… Read More »Flu and cold supplements — mostly, they are worthless
Vitamin C is widely believed to prevent or treat the common cold, a notion popularized by Linus Pauling. However, meta-analyses show no significant evidence supporting its effectiveness in prevention, with only minor reductions in cold duration and severity. Thus, while… Read More »Vitamin C and the common cold — myth or science
New research shows that vitamin C does not help treat or prevent severe cases of COVID-19. Get the vaccine, it actually works.
A systematic review examined whether vitamin supplements had any effect on the course and outcomes of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia.
There are many cold and flu supplements that are pushed on us every winter. Is there any scientific evidence that they work?
Big Supplement makes tons of money pushing pills that have not been shown to be safe and effective in regulated clinical trials.
Alternative medicine pushers love to claim that vitamin C prevents or cures cancer. Science does not support this myth.
As you all know, I am a skeptic of almost all supplements, and I never thought that using vitamin C for sepsis was supported by robust and repeated data. Well, an analysis by an Australian physician, statistician, and Ph.D. student may have found fraudulent data, and it’s becoming a topic of conversation among physicians who have used the protocol to treat sepsis.
Let’s take a peek at this story since it is so amazing because this shows how science really works.
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It’s that time of year when we are bombarded by virus treatments for everything from the flu and colds to COVID-19. The quackery includes things like “immune-boosting” miracle supplements to junk that “cures” every single virus known to medical science.
This article will attempt to debunk the myths of virus treatments such as “boosting the immune system,” magical supplements, and other nonsense involved with the world of flu treatment pseudoscience.
Of course, the best way to prevent the flu or COVID-19 is to get the vaccines. And since these vaccines are free, it’s infinitely cheaper than fake, useless virus treatments.
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One of our favorite alternative medicine quacks, Dr. Joe Mercola, DO, has been warned by the FDA to cease promoting useless COVID-19 treatments. This is not the first time that Dr. Mercola has run afoul of the FDA, and given his past activities, I doubt it’s his last.
The FDA told Joe Mercola that three products he markets with COVID-19 treatment claims are are “unapproved new drugs” and “misbranded drugs” being sold in violation of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. The three products are – Liposomal Vitamin C, Liposomal Vitamin D3, and Quercetin and Pterostilbene Advanced.
In case you don’t feel like reading what Joe Mercola has done this time, I’ll save you a bit of time. There is no evidence that any of these products do anything to treat COVID-19. But let’s take a look at Mercola and his quack treatments.
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