These unregulated treatments potentially create harm, like medication interactions, liver inflammation, heart arrhythmias, or even an increased risk of getting cancer.

They tell you, once you take a cup of this tea every morning for say one month you're going to lose weight. And there's also things like herbal cure-it-alls, you know, lots of mixtures of herbs which they claim, oh this can cure HIV, this can cure cancer, this can cure sickle cell anemia. And there are lots of messages from health experts, even state regulatory bodies, saying, oh these things do not work. We do not have any evidence that these things will offer you the value that this will promise, that it offers. And then there are also things like unregulated fertility and aphrodisiac products. You know, people and lots of messages online will tell you, oh once you take this or you apply this topically, you're going to get better in the other room. You know, you're going to be better, your performance is going to be great, it's going to offer you this and that. Part of the reasons why this happens in a country like Nigeria is currently, Nigeria is facing very tough economic times and this has affected the cost of drugs. Most people can no longer afford medical products, so they are turning to alternative means, unorthodox means, and they're looking for ways to take care of their health while they can still, you know, keep the little money that they have. Then things like the cultural background of Nigeria and the religious background, Nigeria being a very conservative country, conversations around sex and fertility and reproductive health isn't what you ideally hear people talk about in the open. So that means, because it's very hush-hush, people seek for very secret ways to address their needs in that sphere. And lastly, here is our What in the World colleague, Maria Clara Montoya.

In the mid-century, the auto industry was relatively unregulated and vehicles were big, loud, and dirty.

'Much of this ivory is from the forests of central Africa, sold openly in large unregulated markets

Other countries are shocked by the initially unregulated mass immigration and closed their borders, effectively shutting down the largest route into Europe.

Left unregulated, Airbnb can destroy entire neighborhoods.

It's always very, very volatile because the price of Bitcoin is made on these unregulated exchanges where very, very large trades, highly leveraged, push the price up if there's a bit of good news,

Sure, the deadly air pollution caused by unregulated factories and unrestrained coal burning is bad.

And that's what we define as a tumor, a population of cells that is now growing unregulated relative to its normal neighbors.

Protein drinks are unregulated and have some unsafe levels of contaminants like mercury, arsenic, and cadmium.