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Why vitamin pills don't work, and may be bad for you

For Linus Pauling, it all started to go wrong when he changed his breakfast routine. In 1964, at the age of 65, he started adding vitamin C to his orange juice in the morning. It was like adding sugar to Coca Cola, and he believed – wholeheartedly, sometimes vehemently – that it was a good thing.

Before this, his breakfasts were nothing to write about. Just that they happened early every morning before going to work at California Institute of Technology, even on weekends. He was indefatigable, and his work was fruitful.

At the age of 30, for instance, he proposed a third fundamental way that atoms are held together in molecules, melding ideas from both chemistry and quantum…

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Aside From Folate, Vitamins Appear Largely Ineffective For Prevention, Study Finds

If you like the idea of warding off disease by taking vitamin supplements, you’ve probably been disheartened by the research in this area over the last few years. A new study won’t help. It finds that the vast majority of the vitamins and minerals analyzed didn’t have any measurable benefit, at least when it came to the outcomes studied here—cardiovascular disease, stroke, and early death. This is not to say that certain supplements aren’t necessary for some people, but taking vitamins as a general preventative measure just doesn't have a whole lot of evidence behind it.

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Older Americans Are ‘Hooked’ on Vitamins

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So THAT’S Why You Feel Sick After Taking Vitamins

A daily multivitamin or supplement may give your well-being an extra boost, but if you’ve ever swallowed one and felt sick right after, you know it’s hardly a pleasant experience. It can even make you want to ditch the regimen altogether.

There are only 13 actual vitamins, and you’ll die without them

Here’s the confusing thing about vitamins: your life literally depends on them—but that doesn’t mean you need to take them. The best scientific evidence to date says you probably don’t need vitamins in pill form.

Don’t Take Your Vitamins

Nutrition experts argue that people need only the recommended daily allowance — the amount of vitamins found in a routine diet. Vitamin manufacturers argue that a regular diet doesn’t contain enough vitamins, and that more is better.

Five Vitamins and Supplements That Are Actually Worth Taking

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How Do Scientists Know Which Vitamins Are Found In Different Foods?

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A lot of people incorporate vitamins into their daily health routines, but are they worth it?

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The Top Five Vitamins You Should Not Take

The vitamin and supplements industry, which is immensely profitable, relies on the intuition that if a little bit of something is good for you, a bit more can’t hurt. Right? Wrong. If you don’t have a serious vitamin deficiency, taking supplemental vitamins doesn’t provide any benefit, in almost all cases that have been studied. What’s even more surprising is this: routinely taking mega-doses of vitamins might actually harm you.

The Top Six Vitamins You Should Not Take

The evidence against supplements continues to pile up. Recently I created a list of The Top 5 Vitamins You Shouldn’t Take. Now I’m expanding that list to include vitamin D, which is taken by almost half of older adults. Now, two new studies in latest issue of The Lancet show that most of these people are wasting their money.

The Vitamin Myth: Why We Think We Need Supplements

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Vitamin Labels Are Wrong and Will Be for Years!

The government knows it, and the supplement industry knows it. But those who use vitamins every day probably don’t know that the label on every multivitamin and most other vitamin and mineral supplements – such as vitamin D, calcium, and B complexes — is wrong and misleading.

Vitamins and Minerals: Nourishing the Ocean Within (Part 1)

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Vitamins- Do They Work?

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Your vitamins aren’t really vitamins: Why our quest for nutritional perfection is making us sick

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Why vitamin pills don't work, and may be bad for you

After decades of unlocking the baroque biochemistry of free radicals and antioxidants, hundreds of thousands of volunteers, and millions of pounds spent on clinical trials, the best conclusion that 21st Century science has to offer is also found within a child’s classroom – eat your five-a-day.