The Truth About Multivitamins

Supplements (and multi-vitamins in particular) are a very profitable industry.  And like food marketing, the marketing of supplements makes them very attractive.  Approximately 50% of people take some sort of multi-vitamin.  But is this cost actually worth it? Do they live up to the claims? Today we'll be diving into:

• When does it make sense to supplement?
• What vitamins and minerals should we be supplementing?
• What are the best sources of those vitamins and minerals?
• Do multi-vitamins actually do anything? 
• How do we personally supplement? 

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Resources

• Food synergy: an operational concept for understanding nutrition
• Multivitamin Use and Risk of Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease in the Women's Health Initiative Cohorts
• Mortality in Randomized Trials of Antioxidant Supplements for Primary and Secondary Prevention
• Throw Away Your Multivitamins and Antioxidants

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