{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"No Forking Nonsense - The Nutritionist UK","title":"Supplements: what works, what doesn't, and what's a waste of money","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1413,"description":"Fancy a chat? CLICK ME.\nThe UK supplement market is worth well over a billion pounds a year, and most of what's in your cupboard is doing nothing.\nNot all of it, though. A small number of things genuinely work and are worth your money. \nThe trick is knowing which, and almost every article you've read on this was written by someone selling something.\nSo: no affiliate links, nothing to sell you, and I'll tell you which ones I take myself.\nIn this episode:\n\nThe short list of supplements with real evidence behind them, and what each one actually does\nVitamin D, and why the UK government position on it is different from everywhere else, and what that means between October and March\nCreatine: the most researched supplement there is, why the loading phase is unnecessary, and why the hair loss thing traces back to one small study\nProtein powder, which is food rather than a supplement, and when it's worth buying\nWhere a multivitamin does and doesn't make sense\nThe ones that only work if you're deficient, and how to know whether you are\nThe big money-wasters: fat burners, detox products, greens powders, collagen, and anything sold on \"supports\" rather than \"does\"\nWhy the word \"supports\" is doing so much work on that label\nHow to read a label so the marketing stops working on you\nWhen a supplement is genuinely worth taking, and the situations where testing beats guessing\n@paulthenutritionist ","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/OrKGtLZblvV2vo8ljmzlXnwMX8LWVdWaLdw4xca1njY/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9iNmI5/YmVmNjMwZThmM2Yw/YzZiNzc2MDliZmYy/NzdjMi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}