Flutterby™! : Multivitamins don't help you live longer 2013-12-17 22:52:58.943609+00

Multivitamins don't help you live longer

2013-12-17 22:52:58.943609+00 by Dan Lyke 3 comments

Annals of Internal Medicine: Enough Is Enough: Stop Wasting Money on Vitamin and Mineral Supplements (Guallar, Stranges, Mulrow, Appel, and Miller).

In conclusion, β-carotene, Vitamin E, and possibly high doses of vitamin A supplements are harmful. Other antioxidants, folic acid and B vitamins, and multivitamin and mineral supplements are ineffective for preventing mortality or morbidity due to major chronic diseases.

I'd like to dig into a few aspects, I believe I have found that a B-complex can help me when I'm having trouble focusing or thinking, but the general trend on mortality here is interesting.

ineffective for preventing mortality or morbidity due to major chronic diseases

I suffer from visual migraines, and periodic doses of an electrolyte supplement keep them away. (It's probably magnesium that's doing it, but I haven't tried to narrow it down.)

Yeah, I'd like to see a little more delving into quality of life issues. Mortality ain't the only thing, and even morbidity only changes that a little.

We've recently had a friend, technically a little younger than us, that passed. As a human being, a friend, explorer, father and many more things, he lived longer and better than anyone else I know.