The annual 315 Consumer Rights Day is coming soon, as the author of the daily science popularization of the elderly health science knowledge, today's popular science article, let's talk to you about the "pits" of the elderly health care products.
Health care products market is a big market, especially the elderly group, with the growth of age, the probability of various health problems in the body will be increasing, and many health product manufacturers, is to see this business opportunity, launched a lot of health care products, the price is not cheap, the promotion of super efficacy, thus obtaining high profits, and who are the victims? The victims, of course, are those consumers who listen to the rumors and listen to the exaggerated propaganda that they have bought health products.
For health care products, we should first make it clear that health care products are a type of product that plays a role in nutritional supplementation or functional regulation of the body, and such products cannot play the same role as drugs in preventing, controlling and treating diseases, let alone replacing drugs. However, some of the routines publicized by merchants have captured some "pain points" in these aspects such as the importance of health problems for the elderly, do not like to take medicine for a long time, worry about drug side effects, etc., and carry out some exaggerated and untrue publicity, resulting in many elderly consumers being deceived, and even stopping the drug because of this, resulting in the aggravation of disease problems and even seriously affecting healthy life.
There are many false and exaggerated publicity routines for health care products, and I believe that everyone will be very familiar with it.
- It can treat and prevent a variety of diseases
- Safer to take for a long time
- Pure natural, non-toxic, no side effects
- It can cure certain chronic diseases, such as high blood pressure, high blood lipids, etc
- Works quickly
Under such some publicity, some elderly friends who do not have strong discernment ability, because they are worried about the risk of adverse reactions to long-term medication, or for some chronic diseases that need long-term control, but want to cure quickly and completely, will gradually be brainwashed by some of these propaganda, gradually enter the pit, spend a lot of money on these ineffective products, and even stop using drugs that should be taken normally, bringing unnecessary health risks and economic burdens, which is really more than worth the loss.
There are many health care products on the market, all kinds of publicity, marketing means can not be exhausted one by one, today's popular science article, come to clarify the 5 kinds of hot selling common hot health care products related rumors, hope to be able to recognize the truth for the elderly friends, conditioning diseases and health problems can really play a helping role.
Enzymes improve constipation and weight loss
And for improving constipation, weight control, there is a health care product is very popular, that is, "enzyme" products, such products in the publicity of the treatment of constipation, intestinal detoxification, weight loss and other attractive effects, but in fact, enzyme itself is a "biological enzyme", and the essence of the enzyme is a protein substance, this substance to eat, will be degraded by protease in the digestive tract, can not play any effect, and do not mention the improvement of constipation and weight loss.
If you eat such so-called "enzyme" products, there is a significant improvement in laxative effect, that is to be careful, some products in the illegal addition of laxatives, will achieve a rapid effect, and most of the illegally added laxatives are anthraquinone laxatives, long-term use will lead to intestinal mucosal black lesions, damage to rectal health, but also will bring about an increase in the risk of colorectal cancer.
Want to improve constipation, weight loss, or should do more from daily life diet, exercise conditioning, drink more water, eat more dietary fiber-rich cereals, fruits and vegetables, for patients with serious constipation problems, should be through the formal medical route, short-term use of safe defecation drugs to improve treatment, rather than believe in the therapeutic effect of some health care products.
Red yeast rice and fish oil lower blood lipids
Many friends with high blood lipid problems, want to control blood lipids, one does not want to be strictly self-disciplined in life, and the other does not want to take drugs for a long time to control, and the result is to find a variety of health care products to replace, fish oil, red yeast, is two common "lipid-lowering" health products.
High-purity fish oil (health care product fish oil generally does not reach the corresponding purity), although there is a certain reduction of triglycerides, but for other blood lipid indicators does not have a role; and the hypolipidemia effect of red yeast, in fact, is also the natural result of the "lovastatin" contained in it works, the amount of ordinary red yeast contains this substance is very low, can not play a role in regulating blood lipids, and if you want to take red yeast products to lower lipids, you can choose the relevant products of the drug brand, rather than health care products.
If there is a more serious problem of high blood lipids, you need to take medication control and because you listen to some health care product rumors and stop using statins or other lipid-lowering drugs, the risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases caused by long-term hyperlipidemia is huge, if you wait until the onset of myocardial infarction, cerebral infarction and other problems, it is really too late to actively control blood lipids. If you want to control the level of blood lipids, you should actively do a good job in healthy life conditioning on the one hand, and on the other hand, follow the doctor's instructions to reasonably apply drugs to strengthen blood lipid control and stabilize the control of blood lipids, so as to be able to comprehensively reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease.
Panax notoginseng powder prevents blood clots
Sanchi powder is a very popular health care product, and the price has remained high in recent years. As a valuable Chinese herbal medicine, Sanqi is powdered into water to drink, and there is nothing wrong with symptomatic conditioning and physical health. But under the publicity of some merchants, Sanchi powder has become a miracle drug that cures all diseases, high blood pressure, prevents blood clots, reduces the risk of myocardial infarction, and Sanchi powder can do almost everything.
In fact, as a kind of Chinese herbal medicine, sanchi does have the effect of activating blood and stopping bleeding, in terms of trauma and hemostasis, improving bruises, sanchi are symptomatic drugs, and in terms of cardiovascular health, for cardiovascular diseases of the qi stagnation blood stasis type, sanchi can also play a role in improving conditioning, but if sanchi powder is used to prevent thrombosis, and even use it to replace the conventional need to take aspirin, this is an abuse of health care products, and may also bring greater cardiovascular risks because of the discontinuation of conventional drugs.
Therefore, for the application of Panax notoginseng powder, it is recommended that reasonable use should be used in the case of clear defense, and for friends who have cardiovascular diseases and need to prevent thrombosis, it should still follow the doctor's instructions to use aspirin, clopidogrel and other antiplatelet drugs for prevention.
Aminochondroitin treats arthritis
Glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate are also two types of health care products that are very popular in joint maintenance. The joint problems of many elderly friends are indeed senile problems caused by age and bone and joint degeneration, but if you want to improve such senile osteoarthritis problems, it is by no means possible to supplement some joint cartilage nutrition.
Aminosaccharomyndroitin products to improve the problem of arthritis, is not a first-line osteoarthritis treatment, in terms of clinical effectiveness, there has been controversy, in recent years, many large clinical studies have believed that such products have no effect on osteoarthritis, and in the relevant guidelines, ammonia glucose is also listed as a slow-acting drug to relieve symptoms. In real life, there are large individual differences in the effectiveness of aminoglycoitin, some people eat such products, and some people eat completely useless, therefore, for mild osteoarthritis patients, you can try, but if taking more than 3 months without effect, there is no need to spend a lot of money to buy such products.
Coenzyme Q10 treats heart disease
Regarding CoQ10, the controversy seems to be even greater. Every time in the science coenzyme Q10, there will always be friends who leave a message saying that this health supplement is good, which clearly improves their heart discomfort symptoms. But in fact, CoQ10 is an important Coenzyme inherent in the human body, in the antioxidant, protection of myocardium, etc., does play an important role, but this substance mainly comes from our body's own synthesis, rather than external intake, external intake of Coenzyme Q10, whether it is prototype or oxidized, the absorption rate in the intestine is very low. So far, CoQ10 has not received clear clinical evidence that exogenous supplementation can help improve heart disease.
Therefore, as with ammonia sugar, if you believe that it can improve heart health, you can try to eat for a period of time, but if it is completely ineffective, there is really no need to insist on eating, after all, the price of such health care products is not low, it is better to buy health care products money, used in daily healthy life conditioning, may bring us more health benefits.
The above 5 types of health care product rumors, just throw bricks and jade, in fact, similar rumors, similar exaggerated propaganda there are many, the same kind of health care products, but also often derived a variety of disease treatment effects, in short, the elderly friends in the choice of health care products, must be combined with their own actual situation, to supplement nutrition, conditioning the body as the principle, and do not because of some misleading publicity, and affect the rational control and treatment of related diseases. Welcome everyone to actively forward and share, so that more people can see such health knowledge, let us work together to help spread more reliable health science knowledge.