Multivitamins May Not Be as Healthy as You Think | Dr. Neal Barnard

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🗓️ 5 September 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Multivitamins are thought to be great additions to your diet, but research shows the opposite may be true.

In fact, one study finds a multivitamin may increase the risk of mortality. Other data shows a multivitamin may have little to no effect on your health.

That said, there are instances when a multivitamin is healthy and beneficial. It can all be very confusing.

Dr. Neal Barnard joins “The Weight Loss Champion” Chuck Carroll to explain the pros and cons of multivitamins and supplements on The Exam Room Podcast.

Topics Discussed

- Warnings about multivitamins

- Multivitamin vs. unhealthy diet and lifestyle

- When a multivitamin can help

- Who should take a multivitamin

- Common nutrients missing in your diet

- And more

This episode was recorded at the National Health Association conference in Cleveland, Ohio.

Dr. Barnard is a multiple-time best-selling author whose latest work is The Power Foods Diet.

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0:00.0	Today on the exam room. They published a huge study. It was from the National
0:07.3	Institute of Health and they looked at almost 400,000 people and they
0:12.0	discovered that if you took that multiple vitamin
0:14.5	pill along with your orange juice for breakfast because it's going to make up for
0:18.0	any nutrients you might miss and you're hoping that it'll add a few years to your
0:22.4	life what they discovered and you're hoping that it'll add a few years to your life.
0:23.0	What they discovered was the opposite was true.
0:27.0	Welcome to the exam room podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee.
0:38.0	Hi I'm the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll raising health IQs coast to coast and around the world.
0:45.0	High to the exam roomies listening in Norman Oklahoma, Mesa, Arizona, and Taipei, Taiwan.
0:52.0	Wherever you are, we appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place.
0:57.0	This is episode 72 of season 7, number 571 overall.
1:04.0	And I want to start today by reading from the key points of a critically important study.
1:10.0	First, the question, what is the association between long-term daily
1:16.2	multivitamin use and mortality in generally healthy adults? That is exactly what researchers wanted to know. So they looked at data from close to
1:26.8	400,000 people spanning more than 20 years.
1:32.6	And the results, well, this is what they put right at the top of their study.
1:38.2	They crunched a lot of numbers, interpreted a lot of data, and wrote the following.
1:43.0	Quote, these findings suggest that multi-vitamin use to improve longevity is not supported.
1:52.0	And the thing is, one in not supported.
2:01.0	And the thing is, one in three adults in the United States are using multivitamins as a means to live longer and be healthier.
2:05.0	But as you will hear today with Dr. Neil Barnard, in a lot of cases, that's just not happening.
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