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I laughed when the Dr in the article recommended sunscreen plus blood pressure pills. The confidence in narrow pharmaceutical interventions is absurd when we ke
by guelo 4y ago
I laughed when the Dr in the article recommended sunscreen plus blood pressure pills. The confidence in narrow pharmaceutical interventions is absurd when we keep realizing that we don't understand how all the systems in the body are interconnected.
- BLKNSLVR 4y agoEspecially given that the very first paragraph of the article says that most vitamin supplements appear to be ineffective.
- scoopertrooper 4y agoSure, the article does say that and it even provides a paper to backup its claim. However, subsequently a meta-analysis (including that same paper) was published that found: "Vitamin D [supplementation] was associated with significant reduction of cancer-related mortality compared with placebo [...]. Compared with placebo, Vitamin D was not associated with significant reduction of cancer incidence [...]". https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/20009666.2019.1701839 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/20009666.2019.17...
- 6510 4y agoHe probably doesn't get out much.