Vitamin Supplements Efficacy
Discussions center on the effectiveness of vitamin supplements and multivitamins, debating their benefits primarily for those with deficiencies versus potential harm or lack of value for the general population, often contrasting with whole food sources.
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Wouldn’t they not be beneficial for vitamin deficiency ?
They are talking about vitamin supplements specifically.
Wasn't this only about supplementation?
Right, sure, that aligns with what I suggested. That if you have a nutritional deficiency, they may be useful, but 86% of Americans take vitamins or some other nutritional supplements, but only 20-something percent of them have been diagnosed with any kind of condition indicating they may need them.The analysis needs to come from the other direction: take one vitamin, and prove it does something. Don't load people up with 20 vitamins and hope. Here's a great breakdown of the state o
What was in that multivitamin you took? Interesting anecdote but I worry you are throwing the baby out.
What supplements help for this?
General problem with "supplements" I imagine.
Funny how the first suggestion is supplements, the second whole foods.
Would it not be more accurate to say, “they must be avoided in vitamin supplement form”?
Why “a little bit” of vitamins? I would expect “top of recommendations if not more”