Committee on Dietary Supplements

Dietary supplements.

For the athlete training hard, nutritional supplements are often seen as promoting adaptations to training, allowing more consistent and intensive training by promoting recovery between training sessions, reducing interruptions to training because of illness or injury, and enhancing competitive performance. Surveys show that the prevalence of supplement use is widespread among sportsmen and wom...

Dietary supplements for osteoarthritis.

A large number of dietary supplements are promoted to patients with osteoarthritis and as many as one third of those patients have used a supplement to treat their condition. Glucosamine-containing supplements are among the most commonly used products for osteoarthritis. Although the evidence is not entirely consistent, most research suggests that glucosamine sulfate can improve symptoms of pai...

Why dietary supplements?

Botanicals in Dietary Supplements

1 Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Mahidol University, 447 Sri Ayudhya Road, Rajathevi District, Bangkok 10400, Thailand 2 Institute of Pharmaceutical Biology, Technical University of Braunschweig, Mendelssohnstraße 1, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany 3 Clinical Pharmacognosy Laboratory, Department of Pharmacy Practice, PAHO/WHOCollaborating Centre for TraditionalMedicine, College o...

Risky Dietary Supplements

Millions of people rely on dietary supplements for everything from enhancing their sex lives to improving their athletic performances. There is essentially no systematic regulation of the dietary supplement industry, so there is no guarantee that a given supplement will live up to its claims. More important, there is no guarantee that any supplement is safe. We asked a panel of experts to discu...