Debunking supplement and aromatherapy myths

It seems like a day doesn’t go by that I don’t get another solicitation for fancy-schmancy energy drinks (such as Lance Armstrong’s FRS) containing exotic ingredients such as Quercetin, or encounter more ladies’ magazine fluff articles about the supposed benefits of aromatherapy.

Aromatherapy: NOUN, fancy, scientific sounding word developed to sell people silly smelly things they don’t need. A marketing ploy.

In my latest UC Berkeley Wellness Letter, December 2009, there is an article asking the question: ‘Aromatherapy: does it work even if it doesn’t?’

The bottom line: NO.

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