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NHS staff battling wave of food supplement disinformation
NHS clinicians are routinely addressing misinformation about dietary supplements like turmeric, St John’s wort, and magnesium, often sourced from social media. Two out of five frontline health workers encounter patients with inaccurate supplement claims at least weekly.
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