#13. The Multivitamin—Essential for Health or a Waste of Money?

English - February 21, 2019 11:00 - 20 minutes - 9.39 MB - ★★★★★ - 40 ratings
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Episode Summary:This episode tackles the following question— is taking a multivitamin essential for health or essentially a waste of money?Topics discussed are the following:Multivitamin—the iconic supplementScientific research regarding the efficacy of a multivitaminTakeaways from the researchSummary and recommendationEpisode References:See here for a historical review on how the term vitamin came about: https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/vitamin-b-complex.html List of Nobel prizes related to vitamin research: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/themes/the-nobel-prize-and-the-discovery-of-vitamins-2/ 2009 multivitamin study on 161,808 postmenopausal women: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/192042212013 multivitamin study on 27,658 participants: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/192042212013 multivitamin study on 5,947 male physicians: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/244902652014 multivitamin paper by the US Preventative Services Task Force: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/245664742014 editorial on multivitamin use: http://annals.org/aim/fullarticle/1789253/enough-enough-stop-wasting-money-vitamin-mineral-supplements