Supplements that promise to support the health of hair, skin and nails are growing in popularity, but they can come with “significant risk.”
, skin and nails are growing in popularity, but they can come with “significant risk” and there’s limited evidence to show they offer any benefits, dermatologists warn in a new analysis.research letterThe portion of Americans who reported taking such a vitamin in the past month jumped from 2.5% to 4.9% in the decade ending in 2020, the analysis found.
“It’s the appeal of beauty,” Hartman, who is also associate chief of dermatology at the VA Boston Healthcare System, tells TODAY.com. The quality assurance is very difficult to assess with many of these products, adds Dr. Adam Friedman, professor and chair of dermatology at the George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences.‘Significant risk’Both are safe when used as directed, says Haiuyen Nguyen, vice president of regulatory and nutrition policy at the Council for Responsible Nutrition, a trade group that represents dietary supplement manufacturers, in a statement to TODAY.com.
The daily recommended allowance for biotin is 0.03 milligrams for adults, but many dietary supplements promoted for hair, skin, and nail benefits have levels up to 650 times that amount, “with recommendations to take multiple pills per day,”The agency began warning in 2017 that biotin interference with certain lab tests may lead to faulty results.
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