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A brief guide to vitamin and mineral supplements – when too much of a good thing can become toxic

Here’s what you need to know about the benefits and risks of some of the most common vitamins and minerals.

January 28, 2025 Alternative Medicine / Nutrition / Supplements / Vitamins

Nutrition advice is rife with misinformation − a medical education specialist explains how to tell valid health information from pseudoscience Aimee

June 26, 2024 Nutrition / Prevention / Supplements / Vitamins

For healthy adults, taking multivitamins daily is not associated with a lower risk of death

The analysis showed that people who took daily multivitamins did not have a lower risk of death from any cause than people who took no multivitamins. There were also no differences in mortality from cancer, heart disease, or cerebrovascular diseases.

October 2, 2023 Musculoskeletal / Nutrition / Vitamins

Should you get your vitamin D levels checked?

When is low vitamin D a potential concern? And when might you need to get your levels tested?

July 18, 2022 Cancer / Heart and Circulatory System / Nutrition / Supplements / Vitamins

An expert panel has recommended against taking vitamin E or beta carotene supplements for the prevention of cancer and cardiovascular disease – here’s why

The panel of experts concluded that with regard to the prevention of cardiovascular disease or cancer, the harms of beta carotene supplementation outweigh the benefits and that there is no net benefit of supplementation with vitamin E for those purposes.