Most American adults and more than a third of children use dietary supplements, according to a new study from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The researchers from the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics looked only at supplement use from 2017 to March 2020. Experts say that use is probably even higher now because it grew during the Covid-19 pandemic, particularly before the arrival of vaccines and treatments, studies and surveys showed, when people were trying to boost immunity any way they could. Around the world, the market for supplements has been growing for at least a decade. In the US alone, it was an estimated $20.
Other supplements may be harmful; the USPSTF said there was enough evidence in that study to recommend against the use of beta carotene supplements, which the body turns into vitamin A, to prevent cardiovascular disease or cancer because of a possible higher risk of mortality, cardiovascular mortality and lung cancer. “It’s promoted as a natural product.
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