The market for supplements in the UK is worth an estimated £385 million per year and it’s on the rise, fast.
As well a burst of print media and TV widely reporting information on the subject, the number of health and wellness, fitness and nutrition blogs has sky rocketed. Figures and brands like The Hemsley Sisters and Deliciously Ella are now very much part of the commercial mainstream and are spreading their health conscious message like wild fire. This is fantastic news for practitioners like me who work closely with patients’ physical and emotional health will natural medicine. But is turning to a whole food, organic, toxin free diet enough to battle our health and wellness woes. In an ideal world, it would be. But, sadly, we are not living in one.
The market for supplements in the UK is worth an estimated £385 million per year and it’s on the rise, fast. But why? People are desperate to feel better. “Is this new wonder supplement going to rid me of all my health worries?” we ask ourselves. Even I am guilty of spending a little too much money on the new unpronounceable, magic herb from somewhere I’ve never heard of! But are these supplements necessary? If you spend two minutes on Google you’ll find a host of varying arguments for and against the use of them and find yourself in an even more confused state than when you started.
This story is from the Winter 2016 edition of Thrive Magazine.
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