IF YOU’RE NOT TAKING A MULTIVITAMIN, WHY THE HECK NOT? Let’s first differentiate those “one per day” type of multivitamins and a real multivitamin. The problem is that you can only squeeze so many milligrams of vitamins and minerals into a tablet. And a good quality multi is going to pay little relevance to the […]
CAN A SIMPLE MULTIVITAMIN HELP AVOID HERNIAS? It’s funny. Out of all the surgeries we do on humans, I have always said that the decision for hernia surgery is pretty cut and dry. Can’t exactly take this or that herb to heal the hernia. BUT, this article suggest that zinc or copper deficiencies may contribute […]
The saga continues. Studies showing no effect from vitamins get promoted, while the powerful ones get shoved aside. First of all, nothing will ever replace a good quality diet and lifestyle. This is NOT the goal of a multivitamin. Consider instead that a multivitamin is an insurance policy to make sure you have enough of what […]
The news has been a blur with recent highlights from 2 studies looking at the benefits of multivitamin use. If you took the uneducated viewpoint, you’d throw out those bottles now. Before I get into the gist of this article, let me point out the two articles from the Annals of Internal Medicine that were […]
