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Its more complicated than that, actually.

Even if a doctor tells you to use it (and doctors aren't immune to quackery) there is still a problem, you have no idea if the bottle of Vitamin D actually contains Vitamin D or just sawdust, or worse.

This was actually the case here, the bottle of "herbal Viagria" was actually just Viagria. Weight loss/bodybuilding supplements are also known to contain prescription stimulants.

You also can't know if the dosage is what it says on the label. Frontline showed an example where the Vitamin D content of a pill was double the stated dosage on the label.



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