{"quotes":[{"text":"I call supplementing with electrolytes and metals: The Electrical Chemistry of the Human.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["chemistry","electric","electrical","electrical-charges","electricidad","electricity","electrolyte","electrolytes","human","human-being","human-condition","human-development","humanity","humans","metal","metal-illness","metals","supplement","supplements"],"id":131872,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"It now appears most of us need about 5,000 units a day if we avoid the sun. The government was off by a factor of ten; an ,I\u003e“order-of-magnitude error.”,/I\u003e Mistakes of this scale are rare in medicine.","author":"John Cannell","tags":["health-and-fitness","medicine","sun","supplements","vitamin-d"],"id":193412,"author_id":"John+Cannell"},{"text":"If a potato can produce vitamin C, why can't we? Within the animal kingdom only humans and guinea pigs are unable to synthesize vitamin C in their own bodies. Why us and guinea pigs? No point asking. Nobody knows.","author":"Bill Bryson","tags":["health","supplements","trivia","vitamin-c"],"id":300928,"author_id":"Bill+Bryson"},{"text":"On need of supplement \u0026 vitamins- 'If you eat a balanced diet you get all the vitamins and minerals you need and you don’t need any supplement and overdosing can actually be more harmful.","author":"Subodh Gupta","tags":["food","health","nutrition","obesity","subodh-gupta","supplements","vitamins","weight-loss"],"id":301528,"author_id":"Subodh+Gupta"},{"text":"Oxygen deprivation and supplemental oxygen are both bio-hazards for Mauna Kea workers.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["astrobiology","astronomer","astronomical","astronomy","astrophysics","astrosociobiology","biological","biological-needs","biological-terrorism","biologist","biology","deprive","deprived","dol","ill","illness","kea","mauna","osha","oxygen","oxygen-of-life","oxygen-theory","sick","sickening","sickness","sickness-and-diseases","sickness-and-health","sickness-of-the-mind","suffocate","suffocation","supplement","supplements","worker","worker-rights","workers"],"id":381189,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"If you work and do pure research in this industry as long as I have – and you actually pay attention and do your homework, then this naked and raw truth stands out -\u003e The supplement world of cancer-fighters, CAD-preventers, health-promoters, magic-water – AND/OR - muscle-builders, fat-burners and weight-loss agents – all of them – already have an over-crowded mass grave-yard of previous magic bullets that would supposedly make your life and/or body better – Yes, so promising and heavily promoted “this” era – but so dead and gone the next – leaving in their wake a trail of mass-consumer confusion – but also leaving their actual intention -\u003e a new generation of passive consumers – those who can’t differentiate the sizzle from the steak. Or as W.C. Fields put it so long ago – “There’s a sucker born every minute.” -\u003e There isn’t a supplement on the planet that marks the difference between ‘health or ill-health’ – or between ‘fit or fat.’ - or between ‘results and stagnation.","author":"Scott Abel","tags":["fitness","health","supplements"],"id":420896,"author_id":"Scott+Abel"},{"text":"50,000-63,000 individuals in the United States and 19,000-25,000 in the UK die prematurely from cancer annually due to insufficient vitamin D.","author":"John Cannell","tags":["cancer","deficiency","diseases","health-and-fitness","science","supplements","vitamin-d"],"id":448952,"author_id":"John+Cannell"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":7,"pages":1}}