According to Dr. Catherine DeAngelis, editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association, nutritional supplements should be equated with medications and their application should be regulated by the same rules.
In 2001, Americans spent $ 18 billion on the purchase of food supplements such as ginkgo biloba, ginseng, echinacea, and others..
Scientists have analyzed the content of several hundred Web sites devoted to advertising food additives of plant origin and found that many of them disseminate false and illegal information regarding the advertised products.
Many of these drugs compete in the body with conventional medicines and change their mechanism of action. Recently, several deaths have been reported in athletes who took food supplements concurrently with medicus drugs authorized for use. en.
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