The Problem We Couldn’t Ignore
A few years ago, a patient sat across the desk from me with a carrier bag full of supplements. Fifteen bottles. When I looked at the labels, several ingredients were actively competing with each other for absorption. She was taking calcium alongside iron and zinc in a single tablet. Other doses were too low to have any effect or too high for her profile. One product contradicted the recommendations of three separate meta-analyses.
She wasn’t careless. She’d been given products designed around manufacturing convenience and marketing trends, not around her. The supplement market develops fixed formulas, manufactures in bulk, and sells the same product to everyone. That was the frustration that built Personally.
