Category Archives: Vitamins & Supplements

Dietary supplements can be spiked with hazardous drugs

Jennifer Couzin-Frankel. August 21, 2015. The Supplement sleuth. Some dietary supplements are spiked with drugs. Pieter cohen is out to expose the hazards. Science 349:780-783  Pieter Cohen’s brush with death came at a most inconvenient time: just as he was … Continue reading

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You can overdose on Vitamins and Minerals

It’s very easy to take too many vitamins, because so many food products like cereal and milk are fortified with them, so when you have a vitamin pill, you could easily go over the Upper Tolerable Limit.  Since there’s no … Continue reading

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Why Don’t Vitamin Pills Work?

Eleanor Whitney offer this explanation in  “Understanding Nutrition”: Getting vitamins and minerals from food is best because they’re diluted and dispersed among substances that help your body absorb them.  When vitamins and minerals are concentrated in  pills, they interfere with … Continue reading

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Vitamin Pills Don’t Work

Below are some of the major studies done to test the efficacy of vitamin pills over many years, with hundreds of thousands of people. There were no positive effects of vitamin pills seen in any study.  And in some, there … Continue reading

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