Posted on 07/27/2025 9:19:06 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Not all multivitamins are created equal.
Especially the ones made in China. Quality control is often very poor.
78% of vitamins imported into the US are from China
My mom never took vitamin pills. She lived to age 103.
Both my grandfather’s never took the pills coz they did not exist in 1945 in India. Both lived to Mid-90’s age. But they all fasted one day every month.
Everybody dies in the end. It’s just what quality of life do you want before you go?
[[Rather than extending lifespan, daily multivitamin use is linked to a 4 percent higher risk of death, ]]
So, there’s a 104% risk of dying some day?
Good genes are priceless. Many of our relatives smoked, some drank, ate things like bacon and eggs most days (although they did have their own gardens, so ate a lot out of them rather than canned stuff at stores), and most have lived to 95+, some into their 100’s. They were hard workers, and didn’t have desk jobs, so that likely helped them too. My u cle right now is in his 80’s and still working as carpenter bui,ding log homes. Thatt side of family just lives a long time. The other side, not as long on average, but still up there in 80’s.
I wasn’t spoked to live long- 30’s they said. Little did they know who they were messin with! Lol.
My benchmark test is to check the label to see if the Vitamin E is solely in natural form with mixed tocotrienols and tocopherols, and with the magnesium being amino acid chelated (magnesium taurate, glycinate, or L-threonate). As a practical matter, look to buy the most expensive brands, not the cheapest.
Then how can one reasonably claim an actual link between multivitamin use and actual death risk without knowing the initial conditions?
What about a Flintstone every day?
Most multivitamins are comprised of compounded chemicals. Worse, at ratios established by some panel of supposed smart people.
So, go figure.
Yep. And many of the better ones are independently tested by 3rd party places to verify they contain what they say on their labels.
Just don’t take the brand the dinosaurs took.
I doubt that multivitamins increase mortality. I’m guessing that people who take them are more likely to have pre-existing health conditions and are more likely to die earlier with or without the vitamins.
They only work for Neanderthals.
Also, in many years of researching and using nutritional supplements for my health issues, I have found the greatest and most beneficial effects in figuring out specifically what I needed instead of taking a multi and hoping that it would resolve an issue.
The kind you swallow, or the kind you put in your butt?
Yup, me too.
4% is noise (smoking is more than 500%!). And +4% deaths means something but what does 4% RISK of death even mean? What a bunch of bollocks.
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