Talk:Anti-aging supplements

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Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 7 June 2021 and 27 August 2021. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): A. Ng, Future UCSF PharmD, Achang6, Agkobi.

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Foundations II 2020 Group [3] proposed edits

 * more up-to-date information (last edit was 1 year ago)
 * add risk/benefits/side effects tab
 * add images (such as under products tab)
 * expand "see also" tab to connect with other similar articles
 * add ingredients tab

Vtran1337 (talk) 20:34, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

WikiProject Medicine
As a member of WP:WikiProject Medicine I have volunteered to watch this article while it is a Wiki Ed/UCSF/Foundations II (Summer 2020) assignment. Feel free to ask me questions here or on my Talk page. David notMD (talk) 00:45, 9 August 2020 (UTC)

Title change needed?
The title and the content are at odds. "Supplements" refers to products consumed orally, i.e., dietary supplements. There is interest in preventing diseases of aging, and even a class of dietary supplements marketed as "beauty from within," meaning that aging skin, hair and nails can be slowed, stopped or reversed by dietary supplements. The problem with the article is that most of the existing content is about skin health and topically applied products = skin creams. David notMD (talk) 00:59, 9 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Proposed either deletion or redirect to anti-aging cream. David notMD (talk) 15:02, 14 August 2020 (UTC)
 * , can you take another look and comment? Another course has landed here, and before they get started, maybe it's worth revisiting the delete/merge idea before they waste their time and ours. If you have a link for the old Afd, can you add it? It's my first visit here, but at first glance, a merge seems like a good idea. Feel free to add a Merge to (or delete), and I'll support. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 19:22, 14 July 2021 (UTC)
 * See below. I will also suggest that the students change their assignment to Anti-aging cream. David notMD (talk) 22:58, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

Merge proposal
I propose to merge Anti-aging supplements into Anti-aging cream. I think that the content in the shorter and less referenced Anti-aging supplements article can easily be explained in the context of Anti-aging cream. My reasoning is that Anti-aging supplements is mistitled, as supplements are orally consumed products, whereas the article deals only with topically applied products, i.e., creams. Four of the seven refs in the supplements article are already in the cream article. Lastly, there are in theory anti-aging supplements which are proposed to slow or reverse all aspects of aging (for example, antioxidants), not just skin.

Per Merging, unless contested, this merger will proceed in one week's time.

, In the near future, I will be merging Anti-aging supplements into Anti-aging cream for the reasons stated above. I suggest you discuss with your course director changing your assignment to Anti-aging cream. However, if your intention was to convert Anti-aging supplements into an article on orally consumed dietary supplements, providing evidence for slowing or reversing all aspects of aging, that would mean blanking the existing supplements article and creating a new article, which I am guessing is beyond your intentions. Another option, but unlikely to fulfill your assignment, is to add a subsection to the Types section in the Dietary supplement article.

P.S. Medical/health articles require a high standard for references, described at WP:MEDRS. That means no in vitro refs, no animal trial refs, no clinical trial refs. Only review, systematic review and meta-analysis of human research. David notMD (talk) 23:08, 14 July 2021 (UTC)


 * Closed as duplicate; please comment at discussion below. Mathglot (talk) 00:18, 15 July 2021 (UTC)