Posted on 06/28/2024 6:01:25 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
COVID season soon
C, D, Berberine, NAC. The fab four of supplements.
If you know for sure you are healthy, and can maintain it, sure, see what happens.
Funny, I just replenished our supply today. Have a daily vitamin for the two of us to last about a half a year.
I am hit and miss with vitamins. I owe my mid-80’s age entirely to 20 minute exercise daily. Supplemented with low saturated fat diet. Have zero health issues, knock on wood.
What about simple well-being while one is still alive, or the effect of certain nutrients on specific health issues?
Lots of Americans don’t eat well, and vitamins may help them to maintain at least a minimum level of decent nutrition.
This sounds like a study in search of a reason - or funding.
NAC ?
YEP!
Good stuff.
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So what?
Illness and level of health is why one takes vitamins supplements.
Supplements prevent deficiency which might not kill you but make you sick or not recover from an illness.
My pediatrician had me take multivitamins after I had pneumonia in 7th grade to speed recovery.
But he gave me antibiotics to keep me from dying.
A month later I happen to tune into PBS again. Another doctor is pacing the stage. I already know what he’s going to say. The key to good heath is Vitamin D! But, no. This doctor says it’s a keto diet. He doesn’t even mention Vitamin D.
To hell with both of them. I’m gonna take a multivitamin for men over 50. And I’m gonna try to walk a mile each day. That’s it. No more PBS. Instead I’ll be watching my DVD collection of old TV comedies.
Nope. Death rate is STILL at 100%.
MTM was one pretty lady.
> MTM was one pretty lady. <
That she was. But Betty White stole every scene she was in.
I’ve been taking Herbalife Cellular Nutrition for 38 years and vitamins for 51 years. I’m 72 y.o. and feel great. Will it prolong my life? Don’t know, but I don’t have the usual aches and pains that people my age do. Only med is a low dose blood pressure pill. Do I believe in vitamins? Hell yes.
“Healthy adults” is an important qualification, as is the lack of detail about just what multivitamins were being taken. As it happens, many multivitamins do not contain effective amounts or they have artificial forms of vitamins that have weak or even anti-vitamin effects.
My uncle lived to age 84. Took 30 pills a day. My dad, his brother died at 63. Both had heart disease. It had tube the vitamins as their 5 siblings didn’t make it that far.
I have been taking blood pressure medication, thyroid med, type II diabetes oral med, GERD med, and cholesterol med some for 20 years, others for 40+ years. I’ll be 77 in August. I’ve outlived everyone in my family. Nobody lived past 74 before me. My brother was the youngest to die at 51 in 1995. Both parents were gone by then. My doctors have never recommended supplements, because my blood pressure and fasting blood work have always been normal. If there’s nothing wrong, other than I’m old, then there’s nothing to fix or add to. Over the counter supplements can cause medical problems too. Too much potassium is just as bad as too little potassium. If you don’t check your potassium levels, but take potassium supplements, you may be taking too much. I’m not the type of person to put something into my body if I don’t need it.
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