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A pill you take so you can keep ignoring vegetables.
means Something added to a thing to make up for what's missing from it — a vitamin, a fee, an extra chapter.
from From Latin supplementum, 'that which fills up or completes,' built from sub- ('up from below') plus plere ('to fill'). The same plere root gives us 'complete,' 'deplete,' and 'plenty' — the whole family is obsessed with the idea of fullness, one way or another.
- regulation level
- FDA treats them more like food than medicine
- proof required
- none, before hitting shelves
- industry size
- tens of billions yearly, built on hope
- vitamin absorption
- many just make expensive urine