2. The fine print is important.
The labels and websites make some big claims, but the details are more important.
For example, one company highlights a pilot study of kids that found a “statistically signifiant increase in height” for those who drank the shake five days a week.
But when you crunch the numbers, you can see that overall, kids who drank the shake every day for six months had a .281 centimeter growth difference (that’s about .11 inches) than kids who didn’t drink it.
Nourishing a child so they can reach their full growth potential makes sense. Kids need nutrients like protein to grow.
But despite ads showing boys taking growth gummies to excel at basketball, supplements won’t magically give your kid an extra three inches for sports or to be the tallest in their class.