Supplement Infographic

[Denver Buchanan]

Ran across this at InformationisBeautiful.net... Pretty cool.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/infobeautiful/snakeoil_supplements_956.png

[Tony Ferous]

Nice graphic.
Surprising that magnesium is at the bottom of the pile...

[Wayne Riddle]

Site link (http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/snake-oil-supplements/)

Magnesium being low reflects it either doesn't live up to the hype or just a lack of studies that met the authors criteria.

[Steven Low]

All of the bubbles are for different specific things.

So if relaxation/sleep wasn't specifically looked at for magnesium then it wouldn't be listed as such.

And there is no category for sleep so... yeah.

[Garrett Smith]

What a pile of crap.

"Google hits" + scientific evidence + likely that the authors have never worked with anybody health-wise with the compounds nor know when/if a certain supplement is warranted = garbage.

Thanks for sharing, though. JMO.

[Denver Buchanan]

You're right. Any type of meta-analysis like this is going to have it's flaws.

And the authors don't work in the health field, that's true. Of course, that could be considered a good thing, as they're probably not biased toward any particular supplement(s).

[Garrett Smith]

I'm straining to figure out what a layperson is supposed to gain from this, actually.