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Why lump vitamins together with vaginal jade eggs? Vitamins are most definitely effective, for people that need them - something the author concedes. What more

Why lump vitamins together with vaginal jade eggs? Vitamins are most definitely effective, for people that need them - something the author concedes. What more could you ask from a remedy? Question: so it's actually not illegal to make specific health claims like this in the US?

hellofunk 9y ago
I've seen quite a bit of publication in the last 2 years about vitamins and their widespread overuse. Daily vitamins can actually make you less healthy and in some cases are quite damaging, even if following the instructions on the bottle. In cases of a medical need, such as a true vitamin deficiency, they are important, but that is not the reason the vast majority of people buy and use them.
- literallycancer 9y ago
  If you do your homework and dose properly, you will most likely be closer to the FDA recommended intakes than someone who just "follows a balanced diet" (what the hell does that even mean).
  - Kluny 9y ago
    A balanced diet includes 2-3 servings of dairy per day. It does nothing for your health but it keeps the dairy industry in business.
  - hellofunk 9y ago
    Unfortunately most vitamins contain well over the recommended intakes. Here is one article I remember: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/apr/21/vitamin-supplements-increase-risk-cancer-heart-disease-research https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/apr/21/vitamin-supp... There were several others too.
    - literallycancer 9y ago
      Many vitamins have quite low absorption rates though, so it's quite hard to overdose. But yeah, people who don't know what they are doing can screw it up.
Nursie 9y ago
Because there seems to be a rising belief that "vitamins" are a universal good, like some sort of direct tap to an archetype of health, rather than something the body uses in small(ish) quantities. So you see woo springing up about super-doses and vitamin flooding, and you generally see an awful lot of wasted money on people taking unnecessary supplements. Most pass through the system fine, some may cause harm in large quantities. There was that old factoid that due to supplements, Americans had the most expensive, vitamin-rich urine on the planet....

hellofunk 9y ago

I've seen quite a bit of publication in the last 2 years about vitamins and their widespread overuse. Daily vitamins can actually make you less healthy and in some cases are quite damaging, even if following the instructions on the bottle. In cases of a medical need, such as a true vitamin deficiency, they are important, but that is not the reason the vast majority of people buy and use them.

literallycancer 9y ago
If you do your homework and dose properly, you will most likely be closer to the FDA recommended intakes than someone who just "follows a balanced diet" (what the hell does that even mean).
- Kluny 9y ago
  A balanced diet includes 2-3 servings of dairy per day. It does nothing for your health but it keeps the dairy industry in business.
- hellofunk 9y ago
  Unfortunately most vitamins contain well over the recommended intakes. Here is one article I remember: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/apr/21/vitamin-supplements-increase-risk-cancer-heart-disease-research https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/apr/21/vitamin-supp... There were several others too.
  - literallycancer 9y ago
    Many vitamins have quite low absorption rates though, so it's quite hard to overdose. But yeah, people who don't know what they are doing can screw it up.

Nursie 9y ago

Because there seems to be a rising belief that "vitamins" are a universal good, like some sort of direct tap to an archetype of health, rather than something the body uses in small(ish) quantities. So you see woo springing up about super-doses and vitamin flooding, and you generally see an awful lot of wasted money on people taking unnecessary supplements. Most pass through the system fine, some may cause harm in large quantities. There was that old factoid that due to supplements, Americans had the most expensive, vitamin-rich urine on the planet....