For generally healthy and non-pregnant adults, experts said there's no 'magic set of pills' — noting how diet and exercise are key.
"Patients ask all the time, ‘What supplements should I be taking?’ They’re wasting money and focus thinking there has to be a magic set of pills that will keep them healthy when we should all be following the evidence-based practices of eating healthy and exercising,"
More than half of U.S. adults take dietary supplements as a way to improve or maintain overall health, and the use of supplements is projected to increase, Linder and colleagues wrote in the editorial. In 2021, close to $50 billion was spent on vitamins and dietary supplements in the U.S., they added.
But they argue that whole fruits and vegetables "contain a mixture of vitamins, phytochemicals, fiber, and other nutrients that probably act synergistically to deliver health benefits." In isolation, micronutrients may act differently in the body than when naturally packaged with a host of other dietary components, they wrote.
The task force’s new guidelines do not apply to people who are pregnant or trying to get pregnant, JAMA editorial co-author, an instructor of general internal medicine at Feinberg, said in the statement.
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