Supplements have no guarantee of purity. What do you expect when the fucking stupidity of the US Congress passes the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA): (DSHEA) defined dietary supplements as a category of food, which put them under different regulations than drugs.
Memory supplements are already dubious, and some don’t even contain the right ingredients
The US is going grey: Recent estimates by the Census Bureau show that within the next two decades, there will be just as many seniors as there are children under 18.
As the population ages, dementia rates are also set to increase. By 2060, there will be almost 14 million people living within the country with severely impaired cognition.
Adults
concerned with cognitive decline have given rise to a dubious memory
supplement market. Between 2006 and 2015, memory supplements sales
increased from $353 million to $643 million—despite the fact that
there’s no concrete evidence that these pills can actually ward off
cognitive decline.
More worryingly, though,
some of these pills may not even contain the ingredients they advertise.
On Thursday (Nov. 14), the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) publicly released a report
on three memory supplements that had been tested in a lab. Only one
pill contained the ingredients it was supposed to; the other two
contained either half or none of the marketed active ingredient.
Instead, these pills contained unknown chemical substitutes, the safety
of which has not been assessed.
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