{"id":170973,"date":"2025-09-24T17:28:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T23:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/?p=170973"},"modified":"2025-11-28T14:56:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T20:56:02","slug":"supplements-vitamins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/health\/supplements-vitamins\/","title":{"rendered":"The Supplements and Vitamins Industry Moves Billions \u2014 But are They Really Necessary?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Gummies, Collagen, Creatine, Protein: Are Vitamin and Mineral Supplements Really Worth the Investment?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before the 20th century, no one prescribed or even suggested taking vitamins or supplements to avoid getting sick. In fact, people believed that food served no other purpose than being \u201cfuel\u201d<\/strong> to give the body energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It wasn\u2019t until 1747 that a military doctor discovered that giving oranges and lemons to sailors suffering from scurvy \u2014a disease caused by a lack of vitamin C\u2014 could cure them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, in 1937, biochemist and later Nobel Prize winner Albert Szent-Gy\u00f6rgyi successfully isolated the compound for vitamin C, or ascorbic acid<\/strong>, a name derived from Latin meaning \u201cwithout scurvy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Carla Cepeda<\/a>, an integrative physician at TecSalud<\/a>\u2019s Hospital Zambrano Hellion and clinical researcher at the Institute for Obesity Research (IOR)<\/a>, the use of supplements dates back much further in some parts of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf we talk about supplements, they\u2019ve always been around. Through observation, we\u2019ve learned that sometimes the body is missing something. For example, in Europe, women who were once labeled as \u2018witches\u2019 were often the ones who understood how certain plants, when used in cooking, could have effects on health,\u201d explains Cepeda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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