Not all multivitamins are created equal.
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?
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.
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.
The kind you swallow, or the kind you put in your butt?
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.
people who have bad health often take vitamins. Cause or effect?
First- the issue could be that a lot of people taking multivitamins may be taking too many on the theory that “if one is good for you, more is better”. (guilty here) and could be overdosing on things like iron.
Second, 4% is kind of noise level and people with health problems tend to be more heath conscious than people who are very healthy so there may be some selection bias here.
Third, there are so many vitamins added to foods as a supplement exclusive of multivitamins that the multivitamins are redundant. Fourth, the study only speaks to longevity - not overall health or vitality.
It would really be nice to see how multivitamin use effects health broken down into other criteria.
I knew it!
I will now start taking all the pharma pills and vaccines....
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
This from the JAMA?
Hmmmmm...
Nope, still taking my multivitamin.
And still not getting a CoupFlu vaxx.
Some folks who are or become health conscious and take vitamins do so because they know they have personal or family histories that show increased risk of early mortality. Thus these folks may bump the numbers upward.
Give it a week another study will prove this one wrong.
The BEST Multivitamin is a 12 Ounce steak, without the fat cut off. Once that is understood by Americans, MAHA will have succeeded, and the Leftists will have been defeated.
Now do vaccines...
The body can store retinol and excess is harmful. Multivitamins contain retinol. People with a lot of retinol have more bone problems.