Re: Is your multivitamin hurting you?

Did the authors of the study first define what constitutes a vitamin
before evaluating the benefits of taking a "multivitamin?" It doesn't
appear so. Most consumers use typical drug store products made mostly
of synthetic materials referred to as "natural vitamins," including
synthetic beta carotene, vitamins D and E, and pharmaceutically-made B
vitamins. Most of these inferior analogues have been implicated in
*other* studies for their questionable health effects. I personally
use a synthetic-free food-based multivitamin and know that despite the
additional cost, I'm actually getting what I paid for. How said that
so-called "vitamin" studies using various synthetic chemicals are
really just drug studies marketed without that important disclosure.
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