Do we REALLY need SUPPLEMENTS?
Australians are big fans of supplements. More than eight million of us buy them, and almost one in two women take them regularly. And it's not just the popular multivitamins we’re popping either. Some tailored pills out there now claim to benefit everything from the gut, the immune system, right through to the severity of menopausal symptoms. And they’re all available over the chemist’s counter.
But just because you can buy supplements with no prescription, should you? Do they actually work? Are risks involved? If you don’t take a supplement, then what? Here’s everything you need to know.
YOUR HEALTH GOAL
To improve your gut health
POPULAR SUPPLEMENTS:
→ Probiotics
→ Prebiotics
What the science says
Whether taking a probiotic supplement to boost your gut health will actually work is something of a lottery. According to 2018 study, many people get zero benefit from them because their digestive tracts simply prevent standard probiotics from
