Longevity and health are not necessarily the same thing.
TPTB do not want me alive. Their recommendations confirm this.
I do my own research and decide what supplements are useful for me.
“Large analysis finds that for healthy adults, taking multivitamins daily is not associated with a lower risk of death”
Is the sky blue?
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2820369
There’s a link to the study.
Pay special attention to the section on Limitations.
FWIW, we’re still taking MVs.
bkmk for later
There is more to health than death. What happens between birth and death is kind of important. You can be more healthy for all that time or less healthy for all that time.
The article is trying to sound like vitamins are worthless. If they keep you healthier in the meantime before death, they are still a benefit.
Doctors hate vitamins. They don’t make any money off them.
I don’t care about a lower risk of death. But I do want to feel as good as possible as long as I’m here.
I was depleted of vitamin D and iron, so they put me on high doses of both. It brought my levels back to normal, so I know they work.
2 ways to potentially up your daily vitamin game:
1. Check to see if the B-12 in your daily vitamin is cyanocobalmain. If it is, switch to methylcobalmain.
Why: cyanocobalmain is common in daily vitamins but when it breaks down, it forms tiny amounts of cyanide. The FDA says its too small a dose to make a difference. But I say anything you take daily shouldn’t have any cyanide in it at all.
2. Check to see if the daily vitamin says “Folic Acid.” Unless you know whether you have a mild methylation gene defect, you don’t know whether you can properly absorb or use folic acid fortified foods (wheat, white rice, milk etc.). If you’re not sure, why not switch to supplements which provide ‘folate’ instead of folic acid?
we’re all gonna die. Run for the hills!
So I'm going to die whether I take multivitamins or not? That scuppers my long-term plans.