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Don't Take Your Vitamins

By Stuart Buck, Esq.

A massive study has found that there is no measurable health benefit from taking a daily multi-vitamin. There are many such studies as to individual vitamins, with some studies even finding that Vitamins A and E are harmful. I take several capsules of fish oil, 5,000 IU of Vitamin D, and -- the benefits of this are a bit more speculative -- alpha-lipoic acid and acetyl-l-carnitine. Alpha-lipoic acid is a powerful antioxidant, and several studies1 suggest that along with acetyl-l-carnitine, it can reverse the aging process and improve brain functioning. But who knows: in another 10 or 15 years, some massive study may show that these supplements aren't useful either. 1The studies are these: Jiankang Liu, David W. Killilea, and Bruce N. Ames, Age-associated mitochondrial oxidative decay: Improvement of carnitine acetyltransferase substrate-binding affinity and activity in brain by feeding old rats acetyl-L-carnitine and/or R-alpha-lipoic acid, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Buck Stops Here on February 10, 2009 (boomark / email).