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by Zak 17y ago
Direct link: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/snake-oil-supplements/ http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/snake-oil-supplem...
Interesting, but not very comprehensive. A number of supplements that I've found relevant to recommend to friends, including GABA, 5-HTP and levodopa are absent from the graphic (or did I miss them?).
It's also problematic that some of the conditions indicated are very general. There are many possible biochemical causes for depression or insomnia, and a treatment that works for one might have no effect on another.
- warfangle 17y agoIt also doesn't list Citocoline (one of the ingredients in that 5-hour energy stuff), which according to WebMD* is actually used a bit in medicine in regards to stroke victims and alzheimers sufferers. [*] Not necessarily an authoritave source, I'm aware.