I finally cleaned out my supplement cabinet last month, and I want to tell you what I found, because I have a feeling your cabinet looks similar.
There was magnesium glycinate, and also magnesium citrate, bought eight months apart because I forgot I already owned one. A collagen powder I used twice. Ashwagandha I bought after a podcast episode, and stopped talking after the podcast episode stopped being top of mind. A multivitamin that expired two years ago. Something called a “hormone balance blend” I couldn’t tell you a single ingredient of, bought because an influencer I liked said it changed her life.
Add it up and it came to just over $340 in bottles, most of them barely touched, sitting in a cabinet I opened maybe twice a week to grab the one thing I actually take consistently.
If this sounds even a little familiar, you’re not bad with money and you’re not disorganized. You’re responding, reasonably, to a nonstop stream of “you need this” from people who are, often, also selling it to you. Every new symptom seems to come with its own recommended bottle, and it’s genuinely hard to tell which ones are backed by anything and which ones are backed by a good marketing budget.
The problem isn’t that supplements are useless. Some of them genuinely help. The problem is that almost nobody stops to ask the handful of questions that would actually tell you whether a specific bottle, for your specific situation, is worth the shelf space and the money. Instead we buy based on who posted about it most recently.
There’s a short list of questions that, if you’d asked them before buying, would have killed most of what’s currently sitting in your cabinet unused. Not a list of “good” and “bad” supplements, a way of thinking that works on anything new that crosses your feed from now on.
That’s what The Supplement Audit walks you through: seven questions that kill about 80% of the bottles in your cabinet, and keep the ones actually worth keeping.
Kathryn
