The Disturbing Truth about Vitamin Supplements
we evolved for the same spiel for years vitamin C to treat a cold biotin for beautiful hair calcium to make your bones strong vitamin b12 for superhuman energy vitamin companies.
They're making your healthier by giving you nutrients that you probably aren't getting from your diet but this is just another marketing ploy intent on getting hooked and robbing you blind I'm looking at you goop is there so many so this has a vitamin and mineral supplement it has vitamin A in it they're still promoting the fact that vitamin E will help you get better eyesight which is proven to not be true cognizant assists with attention begins working in about 60 minutes.
It's this proven there's you know more than two-thirds of Americans take dietary supplements each year and according to the council for responsible nutrition dietary supplements are a hundred and twenty-two billion dollar industry there are even vitamin startups now that determine whether you're stressed or tired and give you a bowl or vitamin supplements to cater to individual needs I actually have a few friends here at Nashville who swear by their multivitamins let's go talk to them I actually just started taking multivitamins like in the last month I feel so much better I actually feel better like I feel like when I would normally be getting sick like if I'm going really hard and like working my butt off like normally I would feel terrible but I feel fine I take several multivitamins I have vitamin B vitamin E of an energy supplement that I take I do biotin and vitamin C and all that fun stuff so I'm pregnant right now and so I take two things I take a multivitamin for prenatal and then I also take a fish oil DHA which is supposed to promote bringing health so I have a problem where I take like 30 vitamins a day and I'm a huge sucker for things like this where they package your vitamins for you but I also bring my own into the office so it's pretty clear that people are convinced that their multivitamins are making them healthier and I confess I take a multivitamin every day and I think I don't get sick as much but I couldn't help but wonder is it really the vitamins or is it a placebo effect you know what there's calls for an experts point of view a lot of patients ask me this question about which supplements they should be taking or if they should be taking any supplements the most frustrating question for me as the clinician is when patients ask me if they should be taking high doses of vitamin C to prevent the common cold but the truth is that there's no evidence that shows that vitamin C decreases the duration of an illness in fact it actually is more likely to make your stomach upset it's difficult to know that what you're taking is actually what they brand it to be the FDA is mandated to regulate pharmaceutical drugs that are on the market as well as the food that we can buy at the supermarket's but they don't have strict regulations on the supplements that are on the shelves the only thing that they require is the name of the supplement and a disclaimer saying that it has not been tested or evaluated by the FDA right now they operate on an honor code and a lot of the time it's not until something goes wrong that they do some inspection and find out that what they have branded the supplement to be actually doesn't exist so there are absolutely certain conditions that I recommend my patients to take supplements women who around the age of menopause if you have certain diseases like Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis.
Women who have having menstrual periods should be taking supplements if you're on certain medications it reduces your absorption of other nutrients here are some other ways get these vitamins without taking supplements vitamin C eat an orange vitamin D get some sunlight biotin eggs and soybeans calcium milk cheese butter probiotics yogurt iron lean meat vitamin A carrots and sweet potatoes trust me when I say that if you have a good diet with a lot of whole grains green leafy vegetables citrus fruits and lean meats that you do not need to take any supplements in fact it has the potential to do more harm than good at the end of the day if taking a multivitamin really does make you feel a little healthier is it really that bad yes it's bad since the FDA isn't gonna do the work for us and determine if the label is correct we really don't know what goes in these vitamins supplements are one of many things that experts really want you to your research on because it might be a matter of life or death Taylor No so the next time you grab an emergency or an airborne just know that if you have a healthy diet you really don't need it follow the evidence especially with stuff that you put in your temple of a body you deserve it
