Vitamins and Supplements

Taking melatonin every night for a year: a large study flags a serious heart signal

The bedtime supplement millions reach for is looking less harmless when the habit stretches past twelve months.

7 common supplements to avoid if you take warfarin or a blood thinner

Some are in nearly every kitchen cabinet, and your doctor may have no idea you take them.

A once-weekly menopause patch just got a lot cheaper to access

The weekly patch tackles two of menopause's toughest problems at once, and the long-standing price gap may finally start to close for millions of women.

Daily vitamin C cut deaths nearly in half in a randomized blood cancer trial

Researchers tested a cheap, everyday vitamin in people with a quiet blood disorder, and the survival numbers caught them off guard.

8 warning signs of selenium deficiency most people mistake for fatigue

Your thyroid needs more than iodine, and when this second mineral runs short the signs are easy to blame on burnout.

Taking melatonin every night for a year: a large study flags a serious heart signal

The bedtime supplement millions reach for is looking less harmless when the habit stretches past twelve months.

7 common supplements to avoid if you take warfarin or a blood thinner

Some are in nearly every kitchen cabinet, and your doctor may have no idea you take them.

A once-weekly menopause patch just got a lot cheaper to access

The weekly patch tackles two of menopause's toughest problems at once, and the long-standing price gap may finally start to close for millions of women.

Daily vitamin C cut deaths nearly in half in a randomized blood cancer trial

Researchers tested a cheap, everyday vitamin in people with a quiet blood disorder, and the survival numbers caught them off guard.

Expert warns: These supplements can cause liver damage

An American liver specialist has warned of serious side effects and highlighted three ingredients in particular.

After decades of research, this is what creatine actually does to your body

Some claims about it hold up across hundreds of studies, but three widely repeated ones do not survive a closer look.

Girls who took this supplement for a year built measurably more bone than those who didn’t

The powder is cheap, mixes into a drink and feeds the gut bacteria, but it may do something else that matters for life.

Your fish oil supplement may not be protecting your brain the way you think

The omega-3s do reach the brain, but a new two-year trial checked whether that is actually enough.

New drug could prevent 70% of muscle loss linked to Ozempic

An experimental drug protected most of the muscle people typically lose while taking a GLP-1 drug.

7 warning signs of vitamin C deficiency most people write off as stress

The warning signs can show up months before anything looks obviously wrong, and most of them get blamed on stress or getting older.