You must be a crazy, eccentric, ignorant, easily misled fool to be caught taking dietary supplements.  Best to take them in your closet where nobody will see you.  Because of this attitude, many patients simply hide the fact from their doctors they are loading up with vitamins every day.   Still Americans only spend ~$8 a month on dietary supplements and ~$250 a month on drugs.  It should be the other way around.

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2018/05/bill-sardi/just-remember-dietary-supplements-are-not-supported-by-science-and-are-a-waste-of-money/

By Bill Sardi

In the 1990s grain products were fortified with folic acid to prevent birth defects (spina bifida, anencephaly) and a decline in stroke-related mortality was reported.  Researchers then subsequently reported that 31,000 stroke-associated deaths may have been prevented by folic acid food fortification.  Folic acid blood levels doubled during this period (from 6.6 to 15 nanograms/milliliter per blood sample) with an accompanying 14% decline in homocysteine blood levels, which was believed to be the mechanism responsible for the decline.

Then in 2007 The Lancet journal reported that folic acid (vitamin B9) supplementation reduces stroke risk by 18%.

Then again in 2015 the Journal of the American Medical Association reported the combined use of a blood pressure pill (enalapril) and folic acid, but not the drug alone, significantly reduced the risk for first stroke.

Thereafter organized medicine reached a consensus that:

Dietary supplements are still popular despite little evidence they’re useful.  – Science-Based Medicine

Study after study has demonstrated that favorites like multivitamins don’t actually improve outcomes on a number of health measures. — VOX.com

Multivitamins are a waste of money, doctors say.  – Scientific American

There is no evidence that taking a multivitamin regularly has the ability to ward off chronic diseases.  – LiveScience.com Read the rest of this entry »