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Unless your doctor tells you otherwise, stop wasting your money on these seven supplements.

Number one, calcium supplements.

Huh? I'll bet you your doctor is telling you you need calcium for strong bones.

I bet you all the milk advertisements you see on TV tells you you need calcium for strong bones.

While it's true, calcium is a part of the makeup of bone structure.

There is no evidence that a calcium supplement will actually have any benefit in actually making the calcium go to your bones.

In fact, there's some evidence that calcium supplements will deposit calcium in your

blood vessels where you don't want it. So you get plenty of bioavailable calcium in the foods you eat,

particularly in vegetables, in dark leafy greens.

And there's actually a not insignificant amount of calcium in animal protein and fish.

Interestingly enough, people who have some of the longest life expectancy, the Chiaroles in southern Italy are small fish eaters and chovy eaters sardine eaters what are they eating they're eating the calcium in the little bones of these fish and so if you really want to spend your money on a calcium supplement,

buy some sardines, buy some anchovies, that's the way to get your calcium.

Number two, multivitamins. So multivitamins have been around forever.

Unfortunately, multivitamins were developed based on examination of 20 college students in New York City in the 1920s,

when the federal government was trying to determine what would be the bare minimum amount of various vitamins and minerals that somebody should have

to avoid diseases, diseases like berry, diseases like pellegris, which you probably never heard of?

And they wanted to find the bare minimum that would be necessary.

So they looked at the blood work of 20 college students and said,

well, this is what these kids are eating, and this is what their blood work looks like,

and they're healthy college students, so that's probably what we need.

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