FTC sends refund checks over unproven supplement health claims
Nearly six years after accusing a California company of claiming its products could cure COVID-19 and cancer, the agency has started mailing checks to affected buyers.
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Nearly six years after accusing a California company of claiming its products could cure COVID-19 and cancer, the agency has started mailing checks to affected buyers.
Biotin deficiency causes hair and nail problems, but a 2026 systematic review of 10 studies found no consistent benefit from supplementing without one — and the FDA warns high intakes distort lab tests.
Creatine's strength and power effects are well supported; the cognition claims are early, the hair-loss claim rests on one unreplicated study. The evidence, claim by claim.
A modest infection-risk reduction in deficient people, null results in everyone else — the large randomized trials on vitamin D and immunity, weighed claim by claim.
Early training starts cost athletes up to 90 minutes of sleep per night, studies show. The schedule and light fixes with real evidence.
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