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Multivitamin and mineral supplements are advised or self-prescribed in the hope that they’ll prevent disease and improve health. But do they help at all? Evidence from medical science tells another story.
Did you know that the common belief in taking a daily vitamin dose for good health and chronic disease prevention arose not from any scientific study, but from a product called “One-A-Day Vitamins” introduced in the 1940s by an Indiana-based private company called Miles Laboratories?
Today, when multivitamin supplement use is much more common, how much do we understand about these pills that we pop into our mouths with such regularity?
The US National Institutes of Health’s State of the Science Panel defines a multivitamin/mineral (MVM) pill as “a supplement containing three or more vitamins and minerals …
Impressive profit margins are driving more startups to sell these supplements, but they have to face fickle consumer habits and compete with pharma giants.
Many infections with these superbug strains were very recently treatable with mainline antibiotics. They’re now becoming fatal as antibiotics fail one by one.
