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Your advice is unsafe without the context necessary to avoid harming oneself when adding or changing dietary supplementation. While you may understand that cont
by floatingatoll 6y ago
Your advice is unsafe without the context necessary to avoid harming oneself when adding or changing dietary supplementation. While you may understand that context, your flat declaration that "vitamin supplements are good" is plainly wrong without significant disclaimers that you did not include.
Vitamin K, as with other vitamins, can conflict with other medications, and therefore could result in an increased chance of harm or death to someone who takes it because "vitamin supplements are good for your health anyways" without understanding those risks. For example, one list of contraindications from a random Internet result lists:
> ... antacids, blood thinners, antibiotics, aspirin ... drugs for cancer, seizures, high cholesterol ...
Covid-19 is theorized to disrupt blood clotting in the body, and Vitamin K influences blood clotting in the body, so of course there's something worth studying here. But if the results are that Vitamin K supplementation increases harmful Covid-19 clotting, then more people will die from Covid simply because they took Vitamin K after reading a headline in the news.
- narag 6y agoI'm not giving advice, you are, and in absolute terms. I just told what I'm doing. And... come on, I'm not a medical publication, or someone writing a label for a prescription drug, but a individual in an online forum taking issue with your previous dismissive comment. Of course you need to research what you take, of course you need to look for maximum doses. Everyone needs to understand this because vitamins are otc, you can buy them through Amazon.
- tinus_hn 6y agoSo how will we ever find out? We can’t run controlled randomized tests that can kill people because that’s unethical.