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I'm Amanda Montalbo, functional and integrative dietitian, also known as the hormone healing RD.

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All right, episode three for season five, can supplements harm your health? Like, are there

supplements out there that can cause

more harm than good? That's what we're going to focus on today. I did an episode like this

over two years ago for season one of the podcast. Very popular, but it definitely needs some

updates. I'm like, there's supplements that I want to add to this list and just more nuance. So if you're like, where'd that old episode go? It's back. I just wanted to

redo it, update it, and provide not just like, okay, here are supplements that we maybe should

reconsider, but also like, how do you be a little bit more critical of supplements you're taking?

Like, how can you analyze them more?

And that's really my goal with this episode. And you may think, like, why does, like, why does

like supplements matter? Why does it matter if we take certain things? I think it's, we forget how

powerful they are. They're so common. You can go to the grocery store, pharmacy, online, like literally anywhere,

and you can get just about any supplement that you want. And while I think that access is really

important and great, I also think that they are so readily available that sometimes we just

take supplements without even thinking twice about it.

And because we can add them to our cart so easily,

we may not realize that they could cause more harm than good,

depending on the person and the supplement that they're taking.

So they're powerful.

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