Wellness Talk with George Batista
Jul 12, 2026 · 1 hr 13 min · 14 segments
In this episode of Wellness Talk, George tackles a question that affects nearly everyone: Who should we trust for nutrition advice—doctors or social media influencers? With health information flooding…
John Henry SotoHost
George BatistaHost
What's going on, George? What's happening? Well, let's check it out so they say here that overall supplement use of increased okay from 51 percent of adults to 60 percent in 25 years so we've known that the supplement industry has been booming in the last 25 30 years and I was obviously a part of that because supplement use was a part of my my health restoration, if I could call it that, along with just clean diet and all this other stuff.
And they looked at 25 years of U.S. dietary supplements use in data from 1999 to 2023.
This included more than 63,000 adults over the age of 20 who reported their supplement usage.
the analysis you know when we're looking at the booming supplements and stuff like the analysis revealed that overall supplement use increased 51 to 60 percent the largest rise from 62 to 78 was identified in adults 65 and older that's interesting
okay
and by the way just as an aside um the the demographics that most listen to the uh programs like this are from like 35 to 55, roughly.
Maybe I, you know, I want to take some supplements to kind of help out, you know, get myself on track or whatever the case may be.
I think it's the ones also that are, you know, that's the age where you start really realizing your body, you know, like you, you know, when you're in your twenties, you just do whatever you got to do and you just do it and no problems.
When you started in your thirties, mid thirties, forties, You know, you start your body starts doing things that aren't that weren't, you know, just behaving differently.
And then when you're in your, you know, definitely in 40s and 50s, you realize because, you know, usually most people are more aware of.
they get older and they start researching things a little bit better a little bit more you know they got kids at this point they want to have they want to be there for their grandkids so that kind of hits into their their thing and uh yeah and they uh they read what's in the jama man Exactly.
So during this same period, and this is kind of where we start to hit those points, multivitamin use decreased from 35% to 31%, while intake of vitamins and minerals outside of multivitamins increased.
What's going on, George? What's happening? Well, let's check it out so they say here that overall supplement use of increased okay from 51 percent of adults to 60 percent in 25 years so we've known that the supplement industry has been booming in the last 25 30 years and I was obviously a part of that because supplement use was a part of my my health restoration, if I could call it that, along with just clean diet and all this other stuff.
And they looked at 25 years of U.S. dietary supplements use in data from 1999 to 2023.
This included more than 63,000 adults over the age of 20 who reported their supplement usage.
the analysis you know when we're looking at the booming supplements and stuff like the analysis revealed that overall supplement use increased 51 to 60 percent the largest rise from 62 to 78 was identified in adults 65 and older that's interesting
okay
and by the way just as an aside um the the demographics that most listen to the uh programs like this are from like 35 to 55, roughly.
Maybe I, you know, I want to take some supplements to kind of help out, you know, get myself on track or whatever the case may be.
I think it's the ones also that are, you know, that's the age where you start really realizing your body, you know, like you, you know, when you're in your twenties, you just do whatever you got to do and you just do it and no problems.
When you started in your thirties, mid thirties, forties, You know, you start your body starts doing things that aren't that weren't, you know, just behaving differently.
And then when you're in your, you know, definitely in 40s and 50s, you realize because, you know, usually most people are more aware of.
they get older and they start researching things a little bit better a little bit more you know they got kids at this point they want to have they want to be there for their grandkids so that kind of hits into their their thing and uh yeah and they uh they read what's in the jama man Exactly.
So during this same period, and this is kind of where we start to hit those points, multivitamin use decreased from 35% to 31%, while intake of vitamins and minerals outside of multivitamins increased.
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