5/30/25: TOXIC Dietary Supplements?; Fakery, AI & the MAHA Report; Obesity Meds & Saving Muscle Mass; Quote of the Week; Poll from the CAREERS group
Nutrition News You Can Use
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📰 💊Substack: Supplements: the real toxicity - by Derek Beres
(this is a short FDA video…enjoy it while it still lives on their website because it may be “disappeared”— as many other things have been)
“…From 1995 through 2020, supplement-related liver failure requiring U.S. patients to be waitlisted for transplants increased eightfold, according to a 2022 study in the journal Liver Transplantation. In addition, a 2017 review in the journal Hepatology found that 20% of liver toxicity cases nationwide are tied to herbal and dietary supplements…”.
✅Another good resource on this: 15 million Americans take supplements that may be toxic to the liver | Michigan Medicine
🙄MAGA: (M)ore(A)bout(G)aslighting(A)merica
According to various news outlets. The MAHA report cites studies that don't exist. (and some question if they used AI to create the report)
"While the report does attempt to address critical issues and questions related to children’s health — including nutrition and the effects of childhood exposure to digital devices — at its core the report is an attempt to backfill Kennedy’s more outlandish claims about vaccinations, autism, and medications with shoddy data...According to a Thursday report from NOTUS, at least seven sources cited in the MAHA Report do not seem to exist...The MAHA Report was also riddled with broken links, incorrect authors, and other erroneous attributions."
https://www.notus.org/health-science/make-america-healthy-again-report-citation-errors
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/29/rfk-jr-maha-health-report-studies
🙋🏽♂️Poll: Careers Group
The question was posed in the Build Up Dietitians CAREER ADVICE Group
Q: How have things changed for you since March of 2020?
How about you? What has changed for you (professionally) since March of 2020?
👩🏽⚕️Preserving Lean Body Mass while on Obesity Meds
One of the criticisms of the GLP-1’s has been loss of lean body mass/muscle wasting experienced alongside weight loss. What if muscle mass could be preserved or even increased?
Look for more articles and discussion in coming months on BIMAGRUMAB, a medication initially developed for age-related sarcopenia, and it being used in combination with GLP-1’s (semaglutide) in a study called the “BELIEVE trial”.
Researchers to share weight loss results from bimagrumab and semaglutide combo - ADA Meeting News
“…The trial randomized about 500 individuals at 26 centers across the United States, Australia, and New Zealand to semaglutide plus bimagrumab versus semaglutide plus placebo for 72 weeks. Participants had a baseline body mass index (BMI) ≥30 or ≥27 with one or more obesity-associated comorbidities including hypertension, insulin resistance, sleep apnea, or dyslipidemia. All participants had failed at least one behavioral attempt to lose body weight.
…data showing a 20.5% decline in fat mass, a 3.6% increase in lean mass, a 9 cm decline in waist circumference, and 6.5% decline in body weight for bimagrumab versus placebo.”
🗣️Quote of the Week
This quote shared to our Facebook page got >1.3K “likes” and >400 shares— guess it really resonated with a lot of dietitians!