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The journal

Written by the pharmacist who answers the phone in Osu, and edited by nobody in marketing. When the honest answer is that a supplement will not help, that is what it says.

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Sleep

What magnesium actually does at eleven at night

Magnesium glycinate is not a sedative, and anyone who tells you it is wants to sell you one. What it does is quiet the leg twitch and the three in the morning wake-up, which for most people is the half of sleep that was actually broken.

Nana Adjei Boakye, pharmacist

Six minutes

Everything else we have written

Five more, all written behind the counter in Osu, and none of them longer than a coffee. Nothing here is trying to sell you a bottle.

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Digestion

Live cultures, and why most of them never arrive

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Moving

Protein, creatine and the two you can probably skip

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Mind

Reading a supplement label without a chemistry degree

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Eating

Powders, smoothies, and what actually survives the blender

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Skin

Ninety days is not marketing, it is how skin works

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What came in, what is nearly gone

New stock, restocks, and the odd thing we have learnt about taking supplements in a climate this warm. Write to us and we will add you.

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The pieces are general and you are not. Ring the counter with what you are actually taking and a pharmacist will tell you where the article stops applying to you.

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