Want more money for your holiday budget? Cross off dietary supplements from your grocery list.
My holiday wish is to clear up one of the major and most profitable myths in the world of nutrition. The majority of U.S. adults take dietary supplements. In fact, Americans spend more than $30 billion annually on dietary supplements including multivitamins, Omega 3 supplements and specific nutrients. Even your Facebook friends are selling multivitamins whose labels claim they are optimized for your body type.
It’s no secret that our bodies need vitamins and minerals to function. These micronutrients play a role in the ways our bodies do everything from generating energy to functioning as hormones. The truth is, most people don’t need supplements, nor do these products improve overall health.
This article highlights the scope for developing therapeutics with new innovative, alternative approaches. The current trillion dollars pharmaceutical industry is in peril where the current drug development pipeline is slow, inefficient and incapable of being extended to multi-combination drug therapies as well as minimally focused on prevention. The complex modeling of diseases and biological functions has been limited because of the inability to integrate large scale molecular pathways.
Watch this Video to understand how recent advances provide breakthrough technology for doing scalable modeling of complex molecular systems to dramatically accelerate drug discovery and development.