 Recently, over the past many years, we've seen a renewed interest in becoming healthy and fit, at least here in Bangalore and I'm sure in most of the other cities, big or small in India. It is really heartening to see that the youth and even most middle-aged people are becoming conscious about their health, they are going to, you can see a profusion of gyms, you can see online adverts for eating healthy, being healthy, developing your muscle mass and fitness has become a core mantra for a lot of people here in India. This is welcome, absolutely welcome and as one of our seniors used to say and we also follow here in the liver clinic, the advice we give is that what is good for your heart is better for your liver, so that is very true. So we know that excise is good for the heart and so most people are taking to excise, they are very conscious about fatty liver disease and they are doing their best to overcome this problem. However, what I want to talk about today is about the health supplements which people are taking, these nutrients, these vitamins, these protein supplements, muscle builders and so on and so forth which people are taking along with doing their exercise. So if you go to a gym and get registered or take up an excise program, by and large most people would be offered something as a health supplement along with this excise package. I am not saying that all these things should not be used but my concern is that there are a few supplements which are of questionable value, which are given to already healthy people, eating well, they have no problems eating or consuming food, they are otherwise healthy and there is no need to resort to taking health supplements which might contain substances which are not really good for your liver. See what we need to remember is that whatever we eat or ingest into our body passes through the liver, everything goes through the liver and the liver is the central factor in the body where everything is processed especially whatever you eat or take in through the gastrointestinal tract. And the liver will get damaged with harmful elements which are consumed in the name of health supplements, alternative medicines, why even modern medicines itself can actually cause damage to the liver. However when we prescribe these medicines to people, we are aware of their side effects and we monitor them which is not the case if you are taking something which is not really good for your body through the guise of health supplements or nutrients. And in fact a recent national sports champion came to see me in our clinic with his mother and the mother was very concerned about how his lower function test was completely deranged. This is a really healthy young man who is maintaining a healthy lifestyle but on deeper questioning I realized that he was taking a whole range of health supplements which really are not needed for him because if you are healthy and fit and can eat well and you don't have any illness, there is no reason why you can't eat a balanced nutritious diet which will help you and your liver and also help you build muscle or become fit. So my message to all viewers seeing this particular snippet is that you know if you can eat well, eat a balanced diet, a high protein, low sugar, low carbohydrate, moderate amount of fat diet which will help you stay fit and stay away from health supplements. There is lot of evidence out there which says that you know increasing your intake of vitamins, increasing your intake of nutrients, when you are healthy do not really promote your health.