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Posted on 9/11/14 at 10:43 am to RedRifle
The mind is powerful. Spending $15 on a placebo that makes you think you are feeling better is $15 well spent IMO. So in reality maybe those multi aren't actually doing shite ingredient wise, but if you can trick the brain into thinking so then you will be better than you were without them.
Posted on 9/11/14 at 10:43 am to genro
Gotcha
I've always taken a woman's multivitamin and extra vitamin C everyday.
As a nurse, I'm around sick kids all the time. Can't hurt me to take them daily if it possibly gives me the tiniest boost to my immune system.
I've always taken a woman's multivitamin and extra vitamin C everyday.
As a nurse, I'm around sick kids all the time. Can't hurt me to take them daily if it possibly gives me the tiniest boost to my immune system.
Posted on 9/11/14 at 10:47 am to RedRifle
No vitamins except when I was pregnant and once when I had glossitis from the large number of antibiotics I had to take for MRSA.
Posted on 9/11/14 at 10:55 am to lsunurse
I don't really think it's gonna hurt you. But there is a limit to how much of any nutrient your body can metabolize in a certain time-frame. Some nutrients have risks of toxicity. It's a very small risk. But, in my view, the risk of a healthy middle-class person in our country becoming malnourished is even smaller, basically zero. It's just not seen. That's not a first world problem. I'd just drink more orange juice.
This post was edited on 9/11/14 at 10:57 am
Posted on 9/11/14 at 10:58 am to RedRifle
I don't mind paying 3-4 cents per day taking a multi for the off chance that it helps me in some way.
Posted on 9/11/14 at 10:59 am to genro
quote:Tell that to my Great great Grandfather Ebeneezer "Rickets" McGee and his brother Ezra " Scurvy Dog" McGee
Your Daily Multivitamin Is Pointless, at Best
Posted on 9/11/14 at 11:00 am to TigerTatorTots
quote:
for the off chance that it helps me in some way.
why not just eat a handful of grass every day too then?
did you not read the studies that say these are absolutely 100% completely and utterly useless?
i guess john hopkins is filled with a bunch of people who hate Centrum.
Posted on 9/11/14 at 11:02 am to CAD703X
quote:Because grass doesn't have nutritional facts listed on the back of it
why not just eat a handful of grass every day too then?
Posted on 9/11/14 at 11:02 am to CAD703X
quote:
why not just eat a handful of grass every day too then?
because my body can't break down cellulose :(
Posted on 9/11/14 at 11:03 am to RedRifle
quote:
The Physicians’ Health Study also looked into vitamin C and a one-a-day multivitamin and found the same results: no impacts on cancer or cardiovascular disease.
Well anyone that felt that this is what vitamins were for was misinformed, to say the least.
If you eat a balanced diet and get enough sunlight, you don't need them. There are more and more people that don't do either of the above very well. To them, there's some limited benefit to multivitamins.
Posted on 9/11/14 at 11:05 am to Goldrush25
quote:This.
If you eat a balanced diet and get enough sunlight, you don't need them.
quote:Who's the multivitamin industry's core demo? Unhealthy/poor people with atrocious eating habits? Or healthy middle-class people?
There are more and more people that don't do either of the above very well. To them, there's some limited benefit to multivitamins.
This post was edited on 9/11/14 at 11:06 am
Posted on 9/11/14 at 11:09 am to RedRifle
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When the results of these studies came out, they largely refuted the idea that these supplements offered benefits. Vitamin E appears to have no impact on cancer or heart disease. Results from the Women’s Health Study, released in 2005, showed no relationship between vitamin E supplementation and overall mortality. Later results from the men in the Physicians’ Health Study showed the same: no relationship.
For vitamin D, the randomized trials (nicely summarized here) refuted virtually all of the purported benefits to diabetes, weight loss and cancer. For elderly women, there is some evidence of a small reduction in mortality with supplementation, but well below what was seen in observational data and only marginally statistically significant. … And it’s not just vitamins D and E. The Physicians’ Health Study also looked into vitamin C and a one-a-day multivitamin and found the same results: no impacts on cancer or cardiovascular disease.
This crap article is about the same as saying my bowling ball doesn't make my cheese taste any better. No one has ever claimed that multivitamins will make you live longer, which is the only parameter looked at in this article. On the other hand, these supplements can make an incredible difference in your quality of life, regardless of age.
Posted on 9/11/14 at 11:11 am to RedRifle
I haven't ever taken daily vitamins, but I do drink Emergen-C when I am feeling sick. Is that wrong?
So this article basically says taking vitamins doesn't prevent you from getting cancer and dying. It says nothing about the rest of your life. Do the vitamin companies claim otherwise?
So this article basically says taking vitamins doesn't prevent you from getting cancer and dying. It says nothing about the rest of your life. Do the vitamin companies claim otherwise?
This post was edited on 9/11/14 at 11:14 am
Posted on 9/11/14 at 11:11 am to el Gaucho
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because my body can't break down cellulose
neither can it derive and use any actual vitamins from a pill. you just piss and poop the vitamins out.
Posted on 9/11/14 at 11:12 am to Kingpenm3
quote:Doesn't make you live longer or prevent any disease/conditions. So, how exactly?
incredible difference in your quality of life,
Posted on 9/11/14 at 11:12 am to guedeaux
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I have said this for a few years. Unless you are diagnosed with a vitamin deficiency or have some sort of restriction on food which affects a specific vitamin, they are just piss highlighters
yup
Posted on 9/11/14 at 11:12 am to Kingpenm3
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On the other hand, these supplements can make an incredible difference in your quality of life, regardless of age.
dude, did you just gloss over the studies i posted from john hopkins researchers?
Posted on 9/11/14 at 11:14 am to Hammertime
No, that makes perfect sense.
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