I started working at Thrifty Drugs in 1972 and vitamins weren’t the giant business they are today. As I remember it, we had maybe three feet of shelf space devoted to them.
I didn’t know much about vitamins. Honestly, I barely knew they existed. So one day I asked our pharmacist about them.
Were they actually useful?
He told me they certainly could be.
“Take a fistful and do bicep curls. That’s probably the best use for them.”
I never forgot that.
Fifty-four years later, I’m not sure I’d go quite that far. But some mornings, looking at the number of pills, powders, gummies and capsules we’re being told we need, I wonder if that old pharmacist wasn’t onto something.
When Did We Become So Deficient?
Walk through the supplement section today and it’s hard not to come away thinking the human body is missing half its parts.
Something for your heart. Something for your brain. Something for your joints. Something for sleep. Something for energy. Something for digestion.
Something to help you relax aft…
