Dr. Tori Hudson, N.D.

As the saying goes, you usually get what you pay for. But just so you know what you’re paying for, multivitamin-mineral supplements vary in four basic ways:

ingredients
potency
quality
manufacturing process

In general, however, basic mass-market multiples are often sold at a lower price because they are inferior in one or more of those four basic ways. Typically, they [...]

Thirty-two hirsute women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) were studied in an open-label clinical trial. All the women were given 100 mg of spironolactone per day while sixteen of them also received 3.5 g/day of a licorice root extract standardized to 7.6% glycyrrhetinic acid. Study duration was two months. Systolic blood pressure significantly decreasd at [...]