Vit D and Marine oil not proven to help prevent AF

medscape.com/viewarticle/94...

[BobD Volunteer]

Proof and hope are quite different.

[CDreamer]

I’ve never trusted anything that ‘proves’ this or that. I think it more prudent and precise to say there was no evidence supporting the theory, or am I being too pedantic? Prove and cure are terms I take with a very large pinch of salt unless working with cultured foods.

But then neither did I have any expectations that VitD and Marine oil would ever help AF. May help with brain function, but not heart.

[HiloHairy]

From the article, more like proven not to help 😥

[Auriculaire]

The most important reason to take vit D is for overall health and at the moment for it's modulatory effect on the immune system . Apart from anything else this was a badly designed study as participants were all given 2000iu of vitamin D . Given the wide disparities in vit D absorption it is perfectly possible that a higher dose for some participants might have resulted in the opposite conclusion. Vit D studies that do not prescribe to correct levels in individuals to a given level are inferior and their results cannot be relied upon. Unfortunately doing it this way is very difficult for a double blinded study. Although the subjects may not know whether they are getting the vit D or the placebo the researchers have to take blood tests and determine dosages for those in the vit D arm.

[Peony4575]

Vitamin D is essential for bone and muscle health apart from anything else . These things are generally doing some good somewhere

[Hidden in reply to Peony4575]

Are they? Always? Or building up in tissues? Do you remember when folk thought you couldn’t have too much VitC? That didn’t build up but was a bladder and bowel irritant with some very bad outcomes for some.

[Peony4575 in reply to Hidden]

I always take things in moderation I think mega doses of anything are a mistake as equally I would never try anything without a strong evidence base but I don’t think a multi vitamin and. mineral won’t do harm to the vast majority .

[RoyMacDonald]

That's why it needs to be taken in conjunction with vitamin K2!