Two ways to look for the same

In any pharmacy, supermarket or Reel Instagram, supplements have become impossible to ignore. They are in capsules and powders with fruit flavor, but also in coffees, snacks and smoothies. Promise everything: more energy, Best dream, Less stress, most defined muscles either Even more luminous skin.

But not everyone takes care of it. While some consumers of more than 50 years trust pills and anti -aging protocols, the youngest look for the same effect on a coffee or snack. The gap is not in whether or not they take supplements, but in how they are taken.

Two formats, two generations. On the one hand, a more adult audience trusts that well-being has become a medical-aesthetic plan. In a report for Wall Street Journalmany patients come to consultation due to hair loss or wrinkles, and in addition to Plastic surgeries either “liquid surgeries”are supported by multivitamin capsules, Omega-3, collagen, probiotics or the increasingly popular NAD+. Specifically, in Spain, 75 % of the population has taken some supplementso the phenomenon is booming.

On the other hand, As The Food Institute has detailedmillennials and gene generation reject the ritual of the pill bottle. They are looking more towards a practice that they consider more “natural”, that is, through food: enriched coffees, protein pancakes, fiber soft drinks either electrolytes. Its motivation is not so much to stop aging as optimizing daily energy, managing stress and fitting extra nutrition in your lifestyle.

Improve health or fear of age? It is being observed with aesthetic changes, but supplements are a reflection of a cultural obsession. NAD+ is sold as the “antiaging” supplement par excellence: When restoring cell levels, it promises energy and youth. Saranya Wyles dermatologist has pointed out That their oral precursors could even protect high -risk patients against skin cancer, although it warns that visible changes are not always dramatic. In parallel, the gene z does not speak of wrinkles but of daily performance: feeling with energy in the university, managing stress or regulating the menstrual cycle.

In the middle, critical voices. Rocío Périz, hormonal health expert, alert: “The danger of nutrichetic is not in its existence, but in the use we make of it. People take supplements without conscience.” He believes that the key is in education and personalization: not all supplements are worth everyone, and more doses does not mean more effect. In short, some fear aging, others seek to live the present better, but both groups pursue the same: control their body from within.

Are the gene z correct? The short answer: it depends. Whenever you can, nutrients should arrive through food. Comprehensive foods They are not just a “bearer”for example, a salmon fillet provides Omega-3, but also protein, vitamin D, selenium and other compounds that act jointly and that it is impossible to reproduce in a pill.

Now, According to the webmd medical portalthere are circumstances in which the diet is not enough and supplementation does make sense. The reasons are varied: folic acid in pregnant women, vitamin D in winter, vitamin B12 for vegans or elderly and even probiotics. In those cases, supplement is not a luxury but a medical tool. The key difference is the reason: in a healthy person with a varied diet, the multivitamin barely have proven effect. In fact, the Spanish Society of Endocrinology and Nutrition Explain: “Much demand, little efficiency.” On the other hand, in someone with a documented deficit, a supplement can be decisive.

Something that nobody tells you. The enthusiasm for supplements usually leave in the background a key aspect: security. Here the dose is everything and not exceed what is indicated on the label or what a professional advises. The problem is that many times the line between the useful and the harmful is thinner than we think.

The examples abound. NAD+ himself It has generated reports Of palpitations when administered intravenously, another ingredient is the glutathion that in excess can damage the liver and kidneys. Even astaxantine, sold as natural antioxidant, can cause orange skin, digestive discomfort or low blood pressure if abused. In the case of fat -soluble vitamins (A, D, E and K) Nor are they exempt from risk: By accumulating in tissues they can cause from dizziness to organ calcification.

The last risk is less visible but equally real: marketing without filter. In social networks, the claims of “detox”, “natural” or “strength of the immune system”, terms that have no clear scientific definition and that, that, as BBC warnsThey usually escape regulation. And the border is blurred: those same labels now appear in functional cafes, gomolas “glow” or beaten with Claims impossible.

What counts. In the end, either in a bottle or in a coffee with protein, what we are looking for is the same: feeling better, seeing ourselves younger or having more energy. The difference is how we integrate it and in what expectations we put. Science insists on an order: eat well, move, sleep, handle stress. Only later, and with criteria, consider a supplement.

The future does not seem to be a miraculous pill, but specific, personalized and, above all, justified formulas. Until then, the decision to open a boat should go through fashion and more for evidence.

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