I’ve been a licensed physician since 1992, board-certified in family medicine since 1999 (worked as a GP/GMO for most of that time, and residency training in Anesthesiology I left early) and I always thought I had a fair background in nutrition (both undergrad AND med school classes)… I’ve taken a daily multivitamin probably all my life.
One-a-day, Shaklee, Centrum (the last for nearly 25 years).
Why?
I believe it’s possible to eat one’s self into disease. None of us are getting the MRDA (MINIMUM Recommended Daily Allowance) of ALL vitamins, minerals and “micronutrients”) every single day and for such a low cost, what can it hurt?
There IS, however, a “more is better” philosophy to which I do NOT subscribe , following the sage advice of one of my pharmacology “professors,” one Sergeant First Class Rivers at the Academy of Health Sciences in 1977 who said, and I quote “you gots to do the mostest with the leastest.”
Sure, there’s the old medical joke that all a daily MVI does is produce very expensive urine but I was listening to the radio in my car going to work one day about 25 years ago when I heard a report from the NIH/FDA that there was NO utility in taking a daily MVI and ANOTHER report out of HAH-vud medical school saying there was a purportedly lower risk of death from cancers to people who took a daily MVI.
Who you gonna trust?
I find a single, daily MVI to be cheap insurance and I don’t trust ANYONE connected to NIH/FDA/CDC or even HAH-vud ivory tower white coat pinheads to dictate my healthcare and diet choices, only to suggest.
Oh, and HIGH dose pyridoxine can cause peripheral neuropathy, sure, but NOT at the 2-4mg per day dose found in most MVIs. The warning always seem to base their fear-mongering on extremes.
https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-934/pyridoxine-vitamin-b6
To your point...
https://jamanetwork.com/collections/5950/vaccination
Folks might want to read what’s on there and then ask themselves why they continue to automatically believe anything coming out of Big Med.
Its nice to hear that someone who has knowledge and has looked into it takes Centrum, I use Equate which I’m under the impression is the same vitamin.
You have probably read this article before, its old but I assume nothing has changed.
“In a recent test of multivitamins, ConsumerLab.com found that Equate-Mature Multivitamin 50+ sold by Wal-Mart was just as good as the name brand Centrum Silver, but at less than a nickel a day is half the price.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/05/health/05patient.html