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5 Things You Need to Consider Before Taking Any Supplement

5 Things You Need to Consider Before Taking Any Supplement Self 3 hrs ago © Maki Company Limited/Adobe Stock If your morning routine involves tossing down a handful of dietary supplements in vague hopes of boosting your energy or warding off illness this week or disease down the line, you might want to dial back and rethink your approach especially if you’re of the mindset that you don’t need to discuss your supplements regimen with your doctor. Here’s why: Although dietary supplements can play a role in remedying a vitamin deficiency or nutritional imbalance, they’re generally unnecessary for people who have a well-rounded diet, and supplements might even pose health risks, Donald Hensrud, M.D., MPH, director of the Mayo Clinic Center Healthy Living Program, tells SELF.

What Are the Health Benefits of Echinacea?

What Are the Health Benefits of Echinacea? © (Getty Images) bunch of healing coneflowers and sack with dried echinacea flowers on wooden plank, herbal medicine While the coronavirus is unquestionably the most newsworthy virus this year, winter is prime time for other viruses that cause upper respiratory infections such as the common cold, the flu and others. For centuries, humans have looked to natural and herbal remedies for these illnesses. At the top of that list is echinacea. This plant, also known as purple coneflower, coneflower and American coneflower, was used by Native Americans of the Great Plains as a traditional medicine, according to the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, part of the National Institutes of Health.

The strange, booming market of Florida's palmetto berries

The strange, booming market of Florida s palmetto berries Mike Baker, a longtime harvester and collector of palmetto berries, built his own collection facility in Indiantown, Florida. Photograph: Rose Marie Cromwell/The Guardian Despite no clinical evidence, the oil is used to treat prostate issues in an international market estimated at $200m this year by MichaelAdno Mon 23 Nov 2020 01.00 EST Last modified on Wed 25 Nov 2020 10.29 EST Mockingbirds announce the first signs of light as Elbin Sales Pérez disappears into a tightly knit maze of saw palmetto, a creeping, palm like shrub that blankets Florida. He’s searching for a berry nestled under the stalks of the spiky plant that grows wild in the American south.