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September 16, 2025 11 mins

Dr Sam weighs in to give his HONEST insights into the supplement industry!

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Speaker 1 (00:10):
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
Okay, I'm forty three, I reckon.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
For the last three years, I have been getting sucked
in and targeted on Instagram for supplements.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
I'm in my supplement.

Speaker 4 (00:27):
Era Health Supplements.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Yeah, it's really funny.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
It's all all of a sudden, you turn forty and
you get like all these little Instagram ads popping up
about probiotics and collagen and Rachel Finch's Kissed Earth. I
got sucked into that. I mean, I'm sure it's a
great product. I was just something that I would put
in my coffee and my drinks at home.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
I was like, she looks great. I need this ad
to kat.

Speaker 4 (00:47):
And these things are all to make you feel and
look better.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
Yes, all I get fed is like things to make
you look younger, feel younger, bloated, like everyone complains about
a bloated stomach. I've had Bellah did Smoothie on my
Instagram feed. I've had Hayley Beaber selling me stuff. I've
got this hormone harmony lotion that I've just bought that
I don't even I think it's out of date now,

(01:10):
so I'm too scared to use it. But I end
up being convinced by all these people are like, Oh, yeah,
that's going to make me look ten years younger, or
feel ten years younger, or be less bloated.

Speaker 4 (01:19):
Wait, so you're buying these things.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
I'm buying all these things also for you moods, because
when you get to forty, you start your mood start
to go a little bit of radic.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
So I was like, oh, that's I need that hormone harmony.
So what only need that potion?

Speaker 4 (01:30):
What have you got at home?

Speaker 3 (01:31):
I've also got, well, recently, I've got something that my
dad had sent me about if you have like ibs,
I bad tummy because I always complained about my stomach
because I eat too Fastchlrella.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
I've just bought that. I don't even know what it is,
but they're green tablets and I have it every day.

Speaker 4 (01:46):
It's a daily.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
I literally have no idea what it is.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
You're one of those pill boxes that like eighty year
olds have a nursing Wednesday.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
I should get that. I should because then I would
remember to take it. The other one that I've recently
got was Ultra Flora Women's probiotic or something. It was
some weird thing for down there.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
There.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
First of all, I got delivered, because I get a
lot of things delivered to my house, right, So I
was like, oh, what's this box?

Speaker 2 (02:09):
Oh, someone sent me vitamins.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
The next month I get it again, I'm like what
And I opened up the form inside and it's like,
you've signed up for a year's subscription for these animates.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
I don't need this.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
Had you previously noted that you didn't have enough Flora downstairs?

Speaker 3 (02:25):
No, this is the thing. I don't even know how
I got onto this subscription. I don't even know how
because I get sucked in. I'm on Instagram, I'm scrolling
and all of a sudden, I've got all these tablets
coming to my house.

Speaker 4 (02:36):
So, after all these things you've wasted all this money on,
have you noticed the difference in your life?

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Never? And it makes me go, is this whole collage
and phase even real?

Speaker 4 (02:45):
No, it's not.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
I'm putting college in my coffee. I'm gonna have better
skin though, you're.

Speaker 4 (02:48):
No, what's it doing? You know this?

Speaker 2 (02:50):
I know, but they're so convincing on Instagram.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
This influence them telling me that it's good, and then
they'll even do like a before and after photo they've
clearly photoshopped. In my brain, I know they've photoshopped it,
but the other half of my brain, the created brain, is.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
Like, oh, they look really young there. I'm going to
definitely buy this.

Speaker 4 (03:09):
Are you alone here or are your mates doing it?

Speaker 3 (03:11):
All? My friends are in our supplement era where and
it's what we talk about on the weekend, like what
did you get?

Speaker 2 (03:16):
I got this? And then we and then we also
convince each other and then we're at breakfast also buying
more medication.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
So you go out to the cafe on the weekend,
put some fish oil on, Yeah, fish oil, some magnesium
so tumeric olive leaf extract.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
That's another one.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
Are you in the same boat as Haley Pierson here?
I e Are you a big sucker? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (03:38):
Did you get sucked into a health gimmick?

Speaker 2 (03:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (03:39):
What did you sign up for? I would love to know,
and if you convince me, I'll probably buy it. But
what did you sign up for that? You're just like,
why did I do this? This doesn't even working.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
I would love to hear from you on thirty one
oh two three?

Speaker 3 (03:51):
Are you being sucked into all these health things online,
like I am.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
There's supplements.

Speaker 3 (03:56):
There's salmon sperm facials, which I've had and I love,
and I think that's working. But there's other things like
collagen and probiotics and all these weird potions that I
just I believe everything they say on the internet, and
I click add to car and makes and it's.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
In my house.

Speaker 4 (04:09):
The health gimmicks that Haley's seeing on Instagram? Have you
seen them? Two?

Speaker 1 (04:13):
Three?

Speaker 4 (04:13):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (04:14):
Okay, Paula in Shadow part, tell me what have you tried?

Speaker 5 (04:18):
Okay, this is a few years ago, but it was
a slim fast nasal stick, a bit like a vix
vase or Robin Hayler love it. And it's like a chapstick,
so it looks like you shove it up your nose
and you breathe into peppermint goodness. And apparently it suppresses
appetite and sugar cravings. And I think I boked three
to three hundred dollars years ago. So I had one
in my pocket, one in my bag, one in my car.

(04:40):
And I'll tell you what at work. Shove it up
on your break on a nightclub, Shove up nostril. Yeah, really,
good look, come on boys. Heck no, but I could
smell peppermint all the time, which is quite nmell.

Speaker 4 (04:55):
But it's a nice smell For three hundred dollars.

Speaker 5 (04:57):
I think in my brain at worked at the time,
but no, looking back, clearly it didn't. So yeah, I
was sucked into the gimmicks as well.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
Okay, yeah, don't don't do that.

Speaker 4 (05:04):
Don't nice.

Speaker 1 (05:06):
We will cross the slimming nasal sticks.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
Emma and Elizabeth Grove. What have you tried?

Speaker 6 (05:17):
I've tried beef tallow.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
What's that?

Speaker 6 (05:20):
It's basically beef fat that you rub onto your face.
This one was particularly like a whipped beef fat and
basically it's like a solid source of rather than a
and it's like heavy Mark lid through like influences on Instagram.
So I was like legitimately like zoned in on that.

Speaker 3 (05:40):
Can I say influences, I've done research on this. You're
actually not legally allowed to do this. You're not allowed
to do a testimony. So all these influencers that are
saying that this something is working and it's not could
actually all be fined gigantic money.

Speaker 4 (05:52):
Maybe they're not, they're just doing it.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
Not So did this work. What happened once you used it?

Speaker 6 (06:00):
No, it didn't work. I just found that it's don't
get me wrong. It came in a really nice metal
tin that I still have that's now empty. But I
just watched it out. But it's so like it's dunk
and it like clogged my paws and I just like
it's basically like that that you're rubbing onto your face.
So there's nothing I felt. There was no purities in
that at all.

Speaker 3 (06:18):
No, there's all these women going around with those big
masks that glow, you know, those masks that they're also
I've been so close to buying one of them.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
It's like so close.

Speaker 3 (06:27):
I think I've added it to cart and then got out.
You've got to be careful, Okay. So what we're going
to do is we've organized a doctor that's going to
come on our show in just a second, and we're
going to decipher through all the things that are actually
like work and that don't work.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
This is what we all need. Girls, stay with us.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
I've got Barca here. I'm hoping that Baraka works for me.
Supplement that I'm going to try to It's not.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
A supplement, Brocca, It's not a supplement.

Speaker 4 (06:53):
It's got its well essential vitamins and minerals.

Speaker 1 (06:56):
It's good for my mental energy and my physical energy,
and it is a dietary supplement.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
All right, Well you can ask you next Good morning, Sam,
you need.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
To help us.

Speaker 4 (07:07):
Doctor.

Speaker 3 (07:09):
Well, I am in my supplement era, as a lot
of my friends and on Instagram, i keep getting fed
all these different supplements and collagen and probiotics and everything,
and I'm buying everything and everything I see because I
believe everything online. Am I meant to be buying supplements?
And are they dodgy?

Speaker 7 (07:29):
Look, this is a question that I get asked every
single day at the week, and I'll be honest, the
greatest majority of them. You just don't need to spend
your money on. We know that in Australia, if you're
eating a good diet which is based on whole foods,
you're eating fruits and veggies and meats and cereals and
all that sort of stuff, then you should be getting
every single nutrient and vitamin and mineral that you need.

(07:53):
Now that said, some people are a little bit low
on it, so it's not all bad, but most of
it it's just an expensive trip to the toilet and
you're just pissing it all out.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 4 (08:04):
I thought that this was the case.

Speaker 1 (08:05):
Are there any that we should be taking like that
are good for our body that we don't naturally get
in our diet?

Speaker 7 (08:14):
Look, not necessarily. There's some evidence that taking some vitamin
C through the cold and flu season can stop you
from getting a cold or reduce the length of a cold,
but it's only by about ten percent, and you have
to be on that vitamin C before you get the cold.
Some people do get some benefit from magnesium with sleep
and joint aches and pains. Obviously, if people are low

(08:36):
in iron or B twelve, then they might need a boost,
but that's through seeing your doctor and getting a blood test.

Speaker 4 (08:41):
Okay, what about if you're on Manjaro.

Speaker 1 (08:43):
I've been told I'm on Manjara and a lot of
people are saying you should be on all these vitamins.

Speaker 4 (08:47):
What about that?

Speaker 1 (08:49):
Look?

Speaker 7 (08:49):
I think people who are on those weight loss medications,
they're out and about and they're very effective. They're good. However,
because it's going to limit your appetite and the amount
you eat, people might become selective, so they might not
be eating the full breadth of food and therefore getting
all of those minerals and nutrients they need.

Speaker 2 (09:06):
All right, For me, the biggest thing is collagen.

Speaker 3 (09:10):
All my friends are like, you know when your late
thirties early forties, are like, Oh, if I drink this
syrup it's got collagen in it, I'm going to look
like ten years.

Speaker 4 (09:17):
Young gooes a collagen chocolate I think that you have?

Speaker 2 (09:20):
Is this all bs?

Speaker 7 (09:22):
Look, it's definitely not a magic powder. There is minimal
evidence out there that it might provide some improvement on skin,
maybe joint But we do know that if you've got
a good balanced diet with enough protein you eggs and
fish and meat, then you're going to have enough of
those building blocks for collagen. So once again, I think

(09:42):
it's an expensive supplement that we don't really need and
only a small amount of evidence for it.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
Well, we could rattle off individual ones all day, Doc
is Sam, But I've got one more that I know
a lot of people take, and I'm holding one right
now in my hands. Does baraka do anything for you?

Speaker 4 (09:56):
Good batter? Otherwise you bb bounce.

Speaker 5 (09:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (09:59):
Look, once again, there's multi vitamin tablets. A lot of
the reason why they give you a bit of a
boost is they've got a bit of sugar in them,
So just a boosty of blood sugar up and you
feel feel better afterwards. Once again, you're pissing out most
of it. Some people may have a little bit of
a deficiency. I wouldn't waste your money.

Speaker 3 (10:16):
So you're staying on Instagram when we're seeing all these
ads pop up for Baraka or for Ultra Flora women's probiotic,
we should just go Nah, not for me.

Speaker 7 (10:27):
Look, as I always say, if you're looking at Instagram
and you're trying to get your health advice from someone
who's been on a TV show or pushed a few
weights in the gym, then you're speaking to the wrong people.
Go and see a bloody doctor.

Speaker 1 (10:39):
Yeah yeah, so right, that's absolutely fair. Do you have
any final medical for advice for us? Then?

Speaker 4 (10:44):
Can I supplement the supplements for something.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
Other than piss?

Speaker 4 (10:47):
What can I take?

Speaker 1 (10:48):
I just want to make myself feel like I'm doing
something beneficial, doctor Sam.

Speaker 7 (10:52):
Go to your local fresh food grosser and get good
wholesome whole food veggie, fruits, cereals, meats and cook it yourself.
That's the best advice I can give.

Speaker 2 (11:04):
You're the best.

Speaker 4 (11:06):
We love you Boozy to the point. Thank you doctor
Sam lways appreciate your time.

Speaker 7 (11:10):
Cheers time
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