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Comment
. 2020 Sep 3;12(9):2690.
doi: 10.3390/nu12092690.

Overstated Claims of Efficacy and Safety. Comment On: "Optimal Nutritional Status for a Well-Functioning Immune System Is an Important Factor to Protect Against Viral Infections". Nutrients 2020, 12, 1181

Colby J Vorland  1 , Michelle M Bohan Brown  2 , Theodore K Kyle  3 , Andrew W Brown  1
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Comment

Overstated Claims of Efficacy and Safety. Comment On: "Optimal Nutritional Status for a Well-Functioning Immune System Is an Important Factor to Protect Against Viral Infections". Nutrients 2020, 12, 1181

Colby J Vorland et al. Nutrients. .

Abstract

Calder et al [...].

Keywords: COVID-19; spin; supplementation.

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Conflict of interest statement

In the past 36 months, Brown has received travel expenses from the University of Louisville; speaking fees from Kentuckiana Health Collaborative, Purdue University, and Rippe Lifestyle Institute, Inc.; consulting fees from Epigeum (Oxford University Press), LA NORC, and Pennington Biomedical Research Center, and grants through his institution from Alliance for Potato Research & Education, Dairy Management, Inc., National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, NIH/NHLBI, NIH/NIDDK, and NIH/NIGMS-NIA-NINDS. He has been involved in research for which his institution or colleagues have received grants or contracts from Dairy Management, Inc., Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Indiana CTSI, Indiana CTSI (Bloomington), National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, NIH/NHLBI, NIH/NIA, NIH/NIDDK, and Sloan Foundation. In the past 36 months, Kyle has received consulting fees from Novo Nordisk, Gelesis, and Tivity Health. Bohan Brown, at the time of writing and peer review, was an independent scientist. Prior to final publication, she accepted employment at Reckitt Benckiser in Global Nutrition Science; Infant Formula Child Nutrition. Vorland reports no disclosures.

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