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Multivitamin preparations can be dangerous
Last reviewed: 02.07.2025
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Multivitamin tablets, which are available in abundance in any drugstore, can cause harm to human health. Paradoxically, this is the conclusion reached by Danish scientists.
If a person needs to improve his health and support his immunity, then in most cases he goes to the pharmacy for vitamin preparations. These are the so-called artificial vitamins, which should have only beneficial properties.
However, scientists have come to completely different conclusions. The point is that the human body cannot absorb most of the synthetically created vitamins – it turns out that they transiently leave the body without bringing a drop of benefit. Natural vitamins, with their natural protein structures, are a different matter. Such structures help vitamins to be absorbed in the best possible way.
Synthetic vitamins are at best excreted from the body without bringing any benefit. At worst, they accumulate in tissues and fluids, which over time can cause various diseases.
Experts strongly advise: to speed up recovery and strengthen the body's defenses, you need to eat a lot of vegetables, greens, fruits and berries. Only such vitamins will bring undoubted health benefits.
Previously, this conclusion of scientists existed only as a hypothesis, but in recent years, various studies have been conducted that confirmed the theory. For example, researchers from the University of Glasgow have disseminated information that multivitamin tablets are characterized by an incorrectly selected dosage. That is, the amount of some vitamins in such preparations is initially overstated. Thus, the average recommended amount of ascorbic acid per day for an adult can be approximately 40 mg, and as for tocopherol, men need to consume 4 mg per day, and women - 3 mg. At the same time, any vitamin complex contains an unreasonably large dose of these vitamins.
Having conducted a comparative analysis of all previously conducted studies, scientists came to the conclusion that taking multivitamins is not able to prevent either the development of tumors or heart attacks, and, unfortunately, cannot contribute to the cure of these ailments. Therefore, for a person who eats well, multivitamins are absolutely useless and unnecessary pills.
Many doctors believe that taking vitamin pills can only be justified when a person's diet is chronically deficient in certain substances, or when vitamin absorption is impaired. For example, residents of the far north may have a chronic deficiency of ascorbic acid, and pregnant women often lack vitamin E.
Humanity is currently experiencing a real vitamin "boom". People are passionate about a healthy lifestyle, proper nutrition and physical activity. And this is great. However, as for the benefits of additional intake of multivitamin tablets, this question has remained open for a long time.
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