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Can social media forums serve as real-world data for nutraceuticals? Concordance between clinically supported and Reddit-reported ingredient benefits

2026-06-29

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<h4>Background</h4> Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) remain the reference standard for establishing clinical efficacy for candidate drugs, but their restrictive eligibility criteria limit generalizability, and for dietary supplements the body of well-powered RCTs is small relative to the number of proposed health claims. Self-reported real-world data (RWD) by patients in social media are increasingly recognize...

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Literature Corpus work: 1e09dc73-fe26-5993-8a33-7bdc956f28a9
DOI: 10.64898/2026.06.26.26356690

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