Edit [Clarity] my curiosity focuses more on vitamins and nutrients that doctors confidently prescribe to patients.
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They are regulated inasmuch as they are required to be safe to consume. That is, that there is no harm in taking them. As opposed to medicines, which almost always have some at least potential side effects of varying severity. For this reason a doctor can safely prescribe supplemental nutrition knowing that no harm will come from it, while with prescribing medicine a doctor needs to balance things and be careful about it.
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