Supplements: what works, what doesn't, and what's a waste of money

Fancy a chat? CLICK ME. The UK supplement market is worth well over a billion pounds a year, and most of what's in your cupboard is doing nothing.Not all of it, though. A small number of things genuinely work and are worth your money.  The trick is knowing which, and almost every article you've read on this was written by someone selling something.So: no affiliate links, nothing to sell you, and I'll tell you which ones I take myself.In this episode: The short list of supplements with real evidence behind them, and what each one actually doesVitamin D, and why the UK government position on it is different from everywhere else, and what that means between October and MarchCreatine: the most researched supplement there is, why the loading phase is unnecessary, and why the hair loss thing traces back to one small studyProtein powder, which is food rather than a supplement, and when it's worth buyingWhere a multivitamin does and doesn't make senseThe ones that only work if you're deficient, and how to know whether you areThe big money-wasters: fat burners, detox products, greens powders, collagen, and anything sold on "supports" rather than "does"Why the word "supports" is doing so much work on that labelHow to read a label so the marketing stops working on youWhen a supplement is genuinely worth taking, and the situations where testing beats guessing@paulthenutritionist