Most vitamins are useless

[Lewis]

Most vitamins are useless, but here are the ones you should take

http://www.businessinsider.com/what-vitamins-should-i-take-2015-10

 

[tim-from-pa]

Most vitamins are useless, but here are the ones you should take

http://www.businessinsider.com/what-vitamins-should-i-take-2015-10

Yes, Lewis, this is a good exhibit and example to what I was saying in the other thread. Most vitamins are useless because they are establishment types, plus whenever they experiment to see if vitamins do any good, they use measly doses or the wrong kind, and then when no measurable effect takes place they say the vitamins don't work. This is akin to putting in a teaspoon of gas into a car that ran dry, and then when it still don't start say that the engine needs to be ripped apart (likened to drugs or surgery). The article is not scientific, nor logical, and is to the point where it's utterly laughable.

The only danger in this type of article is that those in power with the money push this, and then your local congressman and other governmental agency that were not even voted in ignorantly mandates this "for our good" of course, as the standard on people like us who seriously want to take control of their health, like that Amish girl with cancer who had to flee the despots here in so-called "America" so she could get proper treatment. Despite the fact the error in this article was exposed, they still hope that people keep dumb because there's no money in natural cures. And people who buck it will end up in concrete galoshes at the bottom of the river. Like I always say, they can't win the battle of the wits, so it becomes the battle of brawn. That's their only way to win.

 

[Edward]

Most powder-pressed vitamins won't be dissolved/absorbed and will pass through. I see them floating in septic tanks.

 

[WIP]

I don't know if there is a connection but since I began taking a daily vitamin supplement four years ago, I haven't had so much as a head cold.

 

[Christ_empowered]

I do Orthomolecular, for my mental problems. Seems to help (you do it with meds, of course). Massive doses of b-complex, b3 (I use niacinamide), vitamin C (12 time release grams daily, lol), etc.

I'm just a sample n=1, but I do think there's something to Orthomolecular. Other people have reported good results for conditions ranging from Schizophrenia to cancer, often in combination w/ standard treatment(s).

I've noticed lately that there's a wave of anti-supplement news. Vitamin E raises mortality. Vitamin C is potentially dangerous. Don't take beta carotene, on and on it goes. The thing is...from what I've read, a lot of this "news" proves to not be news-worthy upon review (meta-analysis). I'm no conspiracy theorist, but I wonder...why don't Rx drugs get the same level of scrutiny? Supplements apparently= potentially dangerous, but what about...Prozac? Plavix?

 

[Free]

Vitamin K is also one that should be taken along with D. I do take a multivitamin but it is a whole food one. Scientists are always changing their minds on this stuff.

This is a good site: http://examine.com/

 

[Lewis]

What's that you say, vitamin C could be bad ?

 

[tim-from-pa]

I do Orthomolecular, for my mental problems. Seems to help (you do it with meds, of course). Massive doses of b-complex, b3 (I use niacinamide), vitamin C (12 time release grams daily, lol), etc.

I'm just a sample n=1, but I do think there's something to Orthomolecular. Other people have reported good results for conditions ranging from Schizophrenia to cancer, often in combination w/ standard treatment(s).....

What you are saying is what the old Rodale books on vitamins and minerals have been saying since the 1950's and into the 60's and 70's. They were big on vitamin C, B3 and B6. You're right. If you use high doses of niacin you'd go around like a lobster. A big secret is some doctors use niacin to lower cholesterol successfully, but that's kept under their hats if people find out that the doctors have been prescribing a simple vitamin there would be no money to be made by drugs. (Whether I think cholesterol really needs to be 'lowered' is actually another topic but I don't believe that being high is really bad at all). The Rodale books also pushed folic acid back in those same days when the conventional medical doctors were calling them health nuts and hippies. Then lo and behold in recent years they "discovered" that folic acid prevented many birth defects (it don't prevent them IMO -- it only means the general populace is so deficient that it causes birth defects from poor nutrition). Oh, the news media was all over this 'miracle cure' when if they'd listen to the likes of us 50 years ago, they'd know that. But the health voices were simply dismissed back then.

Lately Rodale has turned very establishment health and like a lot of Christianity actually became severely apostate. I remember the days they would not have even entertained the idea of advertising OTC drugs for example. But now they do and they push this same low fat low cholesterol pseudo-science like the rest do now, at least the last time I glanced at their magazines. They were really corrupted by big medical, big pharma and other $$$$.