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Compare WebMD to examine.com The difference? You pay for examine.com. The outcome? The highest quality site for information on supplements, vitamins, etc avai

• jandrese 4y ago
  > The outcome? The highest quality site for information on supplements, vitamins, etc available on the Internet. This just sounds like snake oil advertising but with the privilege of paying to see it.
  • Workaccount2 4y ago
    There are in fact a lot of supplements that are effective. Magnesium for heart issues, Calcium for bone density, creatine for weight lifting. There are also a lot of supplements that do nothing. The "snake oil". Examine exists so that you can use studies to determine which is which.
    • daniel-cussen 4y ago
      Snake oil per se is an analogue of fish oil, effective. It's use as a pejorative term dates to false advertising of petroleum as actual snake oil in the 19th century. The biggest problem was it wasn't well processed at the time, and was not really edible like petroleum derivatives can now be made to be. And I generally don't take it at face value, I accept it as a glitch in English.
• Semaphor 4y ago
  > The difference? You pay for examine.com. Shouldn’t it be "You can pay"? Because I get all the information I need on Examine for free (and checking their paid offering, they seem to have changed from "professionals" to "laypeople" as their target audience, with everything being a guide and behind a clearer interface).