#393 ‒ AMA #85: A guide to medications and supplements: determining what to take, what to skip, and how to know if they're working for you

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So without further delay, here's today's sneak peek of the Ask Me Anything episode. Welcome to Ask Me Anything AMA episode 85. Today we're talking about medications and supplements. This is one of the topics I get asked about more than almost anything else and I think it's also one of the easiest areas to go wrong. People tend to ask me whether something is good or bad, whether they should take it or not, but those are, I I think, kind of the wrong questions.

The right question is whether a specific intervention makes sense for a specific person with a specific problem. And that's what I'm going to try to get to today. So in this episode, we'll cover why defining the problem matters more than picking the intervention. the different jobs a medication or supplement can do and why the evidence bar should move depending on the job. How to tell strong evidence from weak evidence and why mechanism alone isn't enough.

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