vitamins

I try to keep current on any new developments in immunology, and this study came across my study group yesterday: [Antioxidants accelerate lung cancer progression in mice.] Abstract: This is consistent with the body of literature to date. Both the biochemistry and in vitro research...

Nice skeptical article. Good guy I had not heard of before.

Here's a good op-ed NYT piece about how vitamin supplements can cause health problems, and how the industry fought off regulation: "Don't Take Your Vitamins"

Hi guys, just saw this in the local news today. http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/6286401/Vitamin-therapy-fails-to-deliver-for-Sir-Paul

My wife suffered from Crohns and as a result had her large intestine and most of her small intestine removed. This occurred about 20 years ago. She eats a balanced diet without too much high fibre as the high fibre causes blockages. I give her a Vitamin B12 cocktail intra muscular injection...

Is alternative medicine guru Gary Null finished? He almost died of a vitamin D overdose from one of his own products http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2010/04/28/Health-guru-sues-over-Vitamin-D-overdose/UPI-27541272476523/...

Some of you may already be familiar with the controversial health-guru/AIDS-denialist Gary Null. He's a big promoter of alternative medicine and all the associated woo, and makes a living selling books and his own line of supplements - http://www.garynull.com/ Recently, he almost died of a...

What's the harm in using "complimentary" medicine? http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/11/21/2749582.htm?section=justin

As Economy Is Down, Vitamin Sales Are Up Any chance that any of this money spent on supplements is having a positive effect on health? While the idea of preventive medicine is a nice idea, I'm skeptical that most supplements do what their makers would have you believe. I suppose there are...

Someone on another forum recommended this vitamin drink. He claimed it was the reason his father was able to get off of high blood pressure medications. The 3 stents didn't do anything worthwhile apparently. http://cardiococktail.net/ It sounds like the greatest thing since penicilin...

Or so those pesky Danes say. It appears that high doses of the "antioxidant" vitamins A, E, and beta-carotene may shorten life span, and contribute to the diseases that "nutritionists" claim they can prevent, namely cancer and heart disease. High dose vitamin C and selenium had no detrimental...

Hello there, I have been recently diagnosed with pre-high blood pressure and pre-hyper tension. I weigh about 240 pounds and am 5'9". Since then I've been reading about ways to lower my blood pressure and make sure I don't develop hyper tension. I've seen in a lot of places recommendations for...

This afternoon, I stopped by the store on my way home intending to get a soda. I drink way too much soda. I know this. It's not good for me or my teeth. So I start looking at the other beverages. I want something with more flavor than water, but Vitaminwater is a bit too light right now. I...

Jim Carrey, lovable actor whom we came to know and love from works such as In Living Color, Dumb and Dumber and Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, has taken on a new cause. What's that, you ask? He seems to fancy himself an expert and advocate for depression and believes vitamins are all that are...

I keep hearing ads for vitamins and supplements where claims are made that this product "supports" various things--immune system, memory, energy, etc. Is this something new, or has it been around a while and I'm just now becoming aware of it? Are they using "support" as a weasel word because...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070622/ap_on_he_me/dietary_supplements I want to keep up with this and see how it goes. Just how good will this go? Who knows.

Interesting article in the GlobandMail http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070428.wxvitamin28/BNStory/specialScienceandHealth/home Depending on age, One would expect perhaps (my WAG) 20 to 40 women to have gotten cancer in the time window. A 60 percent drop would be...

The FDA is gearing up to more closely regulate CAM products! PDF file of docket, although it's not the smoothest read ever. Page where you can comment on the docket (until April 30th). Seen via a dieting site, which referenced this Newstarget.com article (outraged, of course). I'm still...

http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/business/16083483.htm With good advice! They discuss a supplement made by a 2nd grade school teacher with :eye-poppi With a flu kit at the local pharmacy that has vitamin C supplements, it's nice to see an article with sound advice and a critical look at supposed...

I always thought vitamins are only beneficial when ingested. Am I confused? A friend who is a makeup artist for Clinique told me how antioxidant creams protect the skin, and I mentioned how I remember learning that even the dietary benefits of antioxidants are in doubt. But I was pretty sure...

A friend is trying to explain to me why I should take a "food" vitamin rather than a regular OTC multivitamin. She said that a vitamin that comes from food rather than cooked up in the lab is better. I think she's saying that these food vitamins are real food crushed down into a tiny pill. She...

LA Times article. annual sales: 23 billion cost of long-term studies: hundreds of millions profiting from the ignorance of consumers: priceless

Got this wonderful tidbit forwarded to me by Gerry Mertens of St. Cloud State University. Reprinted with permission: Oh boy. That's all I can say. Looks like a great study in placebo effect.

Is anyone in this forum familiar with the works and ways of a Norwegian doctor (of medicine) in Denmark by the name of Knut Flytlie? Flytlie has written an apparently quite popular science/"self-help" book "Vitaminrevolutionen" ("The Vitamin Revolution"). I've only read excerpts of it (heard...

I met someone who claimed that synthetic vitamins are different from "natural" vitamins. My first reaction was BS. My second reaction was that it was possible that vitamins made in different would have different impurities but I very much doubt these impurities would have a positive or...

So I got some bath crystals for Xmas, and noticed that they have Vitamin C (as well as a bunch of other vitamins) in them. Isn't Vitamin C water soluble? I keep seeing a lot of bath products with vitamins in them...pro-vitamin B12 (what's a pro vitamin?), Vitamin E, etc. Are any of them of any...

Not according to this anyway. But I guess that many altmed woo-woos are going to continue to market those high does vitamin treatments anyway.

Horizon is doing a report on the vitamins industry tonight on BBC 2. This show is great, if anybody has yet to see any of the series. I'm definately interested to see their investigations into this ludicrous farce. Athon

My mother called me up today to talk about Christmas presents. Then we got talking about my sister and some health issues. My mom said that my sister said she just learned that all those added vitamins you read on the cereal box?...are (get ready...if this is true...)...sprayed on. My sister...

*I* don't. I take one of those daily jobs that has practically everything under the sun in it. Plus I take additional supplements of potassium, magnesium, calcium and zinc. Plus, I drink fortified V-8, and have fortified cereal. I STILL feel shot. Then, you hear the ad for SeaSilver where they...