{"id":492,"date":"2022-12-03T13:46:29","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T18:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/?p=492"},"modified":"2023-07-25T21:03:36","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T02:03:36","slug":"study-says-supplements-dont-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/2022\/12\/03\/study-says-supplements-dont-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Study Says Supplements Don&#8217;t Work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">A recently-released <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/popular-heart-health-supplements-found-ineffective-at-lowering-cholesterol\/\">study<\/a> has concluded that several popular supplements for heart health don&#8217;t work.&nbsp; Among other findings, there was no improvement on the levels of cholesterol.&nbsp; Despite this, I would suggest hanging on to your supplements just in case the study wasn&#8217;t altogether reliable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The study lasted for a total of 28 days.&nbsp; This isn&#8217;t really enough time to form any solid conclusions beyond the fact that in 28 days, no improvement was seen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">One reason why I question the validity of this study is because of its sponsor &#8211; AstraZeneca.&nbsp; AstraZeneca is a drug manufacturer.&nbsp; One of their products is Crestor, which is a statin used to lower cholesterol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">So a company that manufactures a cholesterol-reducing medication pays for a study to show whether supplements can lower cholesterol within 28 days &#8211; and surprise, surprise &#8211; the supplements don&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recently-released study has concluded that several popular supplements for heart health don&#8217;t work.&nbsp; Among other findings, there was no improvement on the levels of cholesterol.&nbsp; Despite this, I would suggest hanging on to your supplements just in case the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/2022\/12\/03\/study-says-supplements-dont-work\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754,"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions\/754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}