Should You Take a Multivitamin??

The Nutrition Science Podcast

Dr. Adrian Chavez

Science, Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

4.8 • 633 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

It seems like every year or two there is a new round of headlines circulating telling people that multivitamin/multimineral supplements are a waste of money. Yet, 31% of Americans continue to take multivitamin supplements… Are all these people wasting their money? In this episode we discuss the science behind this topic in more depth and discuss: Why headlines often say that multivitamin supplements are useless What the science says when it comes to using a multivitamin Who m...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Nutrition Science Podcast, where we help you cut through the noise and make informed
0:05.8	science-based decisions about nutrition and your health.
0:11.2	How's it going, everyone?
0:12.4	Welcome back to another episode of the Nutrition Science Podcast.
0:15.6	I am your host, Dr. Adrian Chavez, and in this episode, we are going to be discussing
0:19.8	multivitamin supplements. The title of this episode is are going to be discussing multivitamin supplements.
0:21.4	The title of this episode is, should you take a multivitamin?
0:24.6	And the goal of this episode is to help you make that decision.
0:28.5	So we're going to discuss some of the science behind multivitamin supplement use.
0:32.5	We're going to discuss why some headlines have shown or have circulated saying that taking a multivitamin is a waste of money.
0:40.9	There have been multiple headlines over the last several years that have circulated making that claim.
0:46.3	And so we're going to discuss why those headlines have circulated in that way.
0:50.4	We're going to discuss the science behind multivitamin supplementation.
0:55.5	Is it necessary? Is it useful? Is it ever useful? Is it useful in certain populations? And then at the end of the episode,
1:00.9	I will give you some basic guidance on some things to look out for when choosing multivitamin supplements
1:07.1	and provide you with some specific brand recommendations. So I'll post a link into the show you with some specific brand recommendations.
1:11.2	So I'll post a link into the show notes with some specific brand recommendations that you can
1:16.7	check out.
1:17.6	Before we get started, I want to announce to anyone who is interested in coaching, interested
1:23.8	in working with myself, working with my team on building healthier habits.
1:29.9	So I have a healthy habits coaching program.
1:32.7	It's a 12-week coaching program that we will be enrolling new clients for at the end of the
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