Isn’t it more about getting vitamins you might be missing? Not really about living longer?
I can’t speak for anyone else, but the supplements I take are primarily intended to improve the quality of my life, not quantity. For example, I take a B multivitamin because I find that my nails don’t break quite so easily when I do.
I take B vitamins because I don’t feel like a dirt grub after a bender. I’m not worried about living longer or I wouldn’t go on benders. I just want to feel good while I’m here.
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I also frequently enjoy more alcohol than recommended, so it’s good to know that my “expensive urine” may be serving more purposes than intended. Lol.
Generally speaking, multivitamins do nothing.
This is known.
The reason they do nothing is that most people have a reasonable diet that hits all the micros. It doesn’t even have to be a stellar diet, or even vaguely “healthy”, per se.
If your diet already includes the micros; then your body just shits or pisses them out. If you have an actual deficiency in something, it’s probably not diet related and more to do with uptake. Either way, that’s a conversation for you and your doctor, not a pill pusher advert
Yep. Wife and I take a multivitamin with an emphasis in vitamin D because we both avoid the sun as much as possible. The rest just supplement other vitamins that we otherwise don’t get enough of because of our regular diet.
You would think if you were deficient in certain vitamins, this could be a health risk and increase the chance of an earlier death.
I take Magnesium Citrate because I get frequent foot cramps, and it helps reduce them a little. Foot cramps aren’t life threatening besides i guess the small increase in risk when it occasionally happens while driving.
But they’re certainly annoying.
Yes there are many examples where vitamin deficiencies won’t shorten your lifespan, I was talking about an average across the population
Folks on Lemmy seem to love shitting on multivitamins. I brought some about a year ago because I was run down and getting sick all the time. Im a Chef so inconsistent diet and drinking alcohol kind of come with the deal. Anyway nower days I feel more energetic and my immune system seems more robust. The daily multivitamins I take cost $0.25 each.
Yeah, multivitamins work but $0.25 is way too much. You can get it down to $0.06 per pill if you look around. $0.09 is normal.
Eat yo veggies and do a littl sport. Don’t drink and smoke. Ther you go, healmth
Of course it’s always better to get vitamins from food, but getting them from a multivitamin is better than not at all.
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