PDF of the article reviewed in today’s video is provided below.
Lam CS, O'Connell K, Monroy-Iglesias MJ, Wang P, Hou YN, Du M, Giovannucci EL, Mao JJ, Kantor ED. Emerging Patterns in Dietary Supplement Use Among US Adults, 1999-2023. JAMA Netw Open. 2026 Jun 1;9(6):e2619291
DrV’s notes (1-8) from the video
The medical profession refuses to educate doctors about nutrition (because they know it would reduce drug dependence and therefore drug sales) and then jealously complains when the public/patients use nutritional supplements, especially “without medical supervision.”
Medical ignorance about nutrition is not simply passive emptyness, but board-certification (eg Family Medicine) actually requires agreement with antinutrition disinformation; this “hate your enemy while not knowing your enemy” is common among cults and political extremist groups.
The medical profession jealously complains that the public/patients is using nutritional supplements that are promoted by social media knownothings and DTCA (direct to consumer advertising) yet this same medical machine uses social media knownothings, DTCA, corporate network comedians, and free donuts to promote its ineffective-yet-dangerous drugs and injections.
The same medical machine that complains about the public’s use of nutritional supplements also endorses: 1. Triple vaccination against Covid, 2. Double-masking and triple masking, 3. Social distancing, plexiglass for adults and plastic bubbles for kids, 4. Quarantining of healthy people, 5. Closing of beaches, gyms, parks while keeping cigarette and alcohol stores open.
FDA “approves” worthless drugs and dangerous chemical-composed and pesticide-loaded “food-like products” while blocking the acceptance of nutritional interventions as disease treatments. The US FDA refuses to acknowledge the legitimate benefits of nutritional therapies yet eagerly approves high-profit high-cost patented drugs that 1) are not manufactured for safety and batch-to-batch consistency, 2) have unfavorable risk:benefit profiles, 3) have no real-world effectiveness, 4) fail any reasonable cost-effectiveness analysis, 5) are less effective, more expensive, and more dangerous than nutritional interventions. Further, the US FDA “approves” genetically modified foods that are loaded with pesticides and the sale of foods that are so fake that they cannot even be called by the names of the foods that they are supposed to imitate. As such, “FDA approval” is meaningless.
American Slices / Singles: These are legally classified as “pasteurized process cheese food” or “pasteurized prepared cheese product”. Because they contain vegetable oils, whey, and milk protein concentrates, they do not meet the minimum requirement to be labeled purely as “cheese”. Not All Slices are Cheese: You may see some extremely inexpensive or plant-based packages specifically labeled as just “sandwich slices” or “American sandwich slices” to indicate that they do not contain dairy or enough dairy to be called cheese.
Much “top-tier medical research” is loaded with propaganda and logical fallacies, but most readers don’t recognize them because they are embedded within statistics and science gibberish. The authors of this paper are using an intentional misrepresentation of Nutrition in order to attack and denigrate Nutrition—this is both “refutation by denigration” and “strawman fallacy” as a variation of argumentum ad hominem.
People indoctrinated into the drug-compliance-monitoring paradigm will assert and defend that drug-centered medical-dominance paradigm even when it is clearly inferior to other options (eg interventional nutrition) and even when their promulgated “rationale” is completely and obviously stupid.
