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Sometimes mortality isn't the thing you're looking for, but just do you feel better? I used to think vitamin supplements were stupid, but when I started taking a couple of supplements to try to help my teeth, I found that Vitamin D + K2 helped the teeth stay noticably smoother, and the magnesium might not have had an effect on the teeth, but my heart arrythmia went from daily episodes to weekly, and now four years later, I don't have them any anymore. (The magnesium also made my periods more regular when I'd been seeing the signs of menopause - OOPS). I've also found that taking iodine has levelled my mood, and I don't yell at people right before bedtime anymore.

At this point, I'm on enough vitamins, that I started to think I should just take a multivitamin. That said, I think the advice of being able to adjust your vitamin levels individually makes sense to me, so I haven't....

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These multivitamin studies are almost always dishonest. Did you notice the study funded by Pfizer to show their cheap, semi-toxic multivitamin (CENTRUM) all of a sudden can reduce risk for dementia?

Gee, I wonder how that miracle works. How come CENTRUM, Pfizer's multivitamin, suddenly works even though alternative medicine is a fake news right wing lie?

With these studies, they are never rigorous enough to show anything interesting (such as actually looking at specific compounds in the vitamin etc), and they're always a bad faith attempt to add one more belt notch to the propaganda line that "alternative medicine doesn't work", whatever that even means, which it doesn't. It's mostly word salad (what is alternative medicine? what is "work"? mortality, that's it?) It just is a power game played by people who are insecure about the ultimate nature of their careers (and many of these are funded in part by pharma companies attempting to discredit people taking simple measures to take care of themselves).

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