{"id":622232,"date":"2026-08-05T18:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T18:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/622232\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T18:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T18:17:11","slug":"which-supplements-are-worth-taking-per-a-dietitian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/622232\/","title":{"rendered":"Which supplements are worth taking, per a dietitian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dietitian Josie Porter, author of How Not to Take Supplements, sized up ten popular supplements for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2026\/jul\/31\/supplements-multivitamins-creatine-collagen-magnesium-omega\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Guardian<\/a>. One of the largest multivitamin trials found a memory improvement in older adults, but it came to &#8220;roughly a quarter of a word in a 20-word recall test.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Magnesium is sold for sleep, cramps, and blood pressure, but Porter writes &#8220;the evidence is more underwhelming than the marketing&#8221; \u2014 the benefit shows up mainly in people whose intake was low. Electrolyte powders sell as a daily essential, though heavy sweating excretes only about 1 to 3 grams of salt an hour, or two pinches to half a teaspoon from the shaker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Porter says some supplements are worth buying: psyllium husk, for constipation and diarrhea; collagen peptides, for small gains in skin elasticity, mostly in women in their 40s and 50s; and creatine, which cab be hard get enough of from food. In the UK, sunlight is too weak to make vitamin D from early October to late March, so she recommends 10 micrograms a day during those months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Previously:<\/strong><br \/>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2026\/02\/27\/magnesium-helps-migraines-but-the-rest-of-the-hype-is-shaky.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Magnesium helps migraines but the rest of the hype is shaky<\/a><br \/>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2013\/12\/17\/do-multivitamins-help-your-hea.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Do multivitamins help your health? New research says nope.<\/a><br \/>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2015\/04\/21\/take-lots-of-dietary-supplemen.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Take lots of dietary supplements? You may have increased cancer risk, says new meta-study.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dietitian Josie Porter, author of How Not to Take Supplements, sized up ten popular supplements for the Guardian.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[277],"tags":[13649,18,135,19,17,522,155353,508,133,3013,28911],"class_list":["post-622232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nutrition","tag-creatine","tag-eire","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-magnesium","tag-multivitamins","tag-nutrition","tag-science","tag-supplements","tag-the-guardian"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117044277855548401","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}