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VITAMANIA; A historical documentary on vitamins and supplements. From CuriosityStream (90 mins)

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“100 years ago a new word in medicine was invented: vitamin. This year the world will spend over $100,000,000,000 on vitamins and supplements. ($40,000,000,000 in the US.) Dr. Derek Muller takes us on a world spanning investigation of vitamin science and history, asking how do we decide whether to take vitamin supplements or not?”

If I took any more supplements, my pee would glow-in-the-dark.

Cobb Liver Oil launched the vitamin industry.

There have been 10 Nobel prizes awarded in vitamin science.

In 1994 the U.S. Congress passed a law forbidding the testing of supplements for safety and effectiveness.

Hundreds of thousands of children go blind for lack of vitamin A, but too much can be toxic.

Vitamin D is critically important and the world is in the midst of a vitamin D deficiency causing much illness, but too much can be toxic.

Vitamin levels needed for optimal health is person specific, which explains why such a wide variation in the dosing of B-1 on HU.

Vitamins in food are better than vitamins as pills for the same reason that levodopa in Mucuna Pruriens is better than levodopa as a pill.

Etc., etc.

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enjoysalud

Amen!!!!

As we wrack havoc on our planet our food is stripped of what in the past use to be plentiful.

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Springfield78

Good information! Thanks!

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Rhyothemis

I wonder why the mum in the video didn't start giving her son a multi when he started refusing pretty much all healthful foods.

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MBAnderson in reply toRhyothemis

I wonder. She feels terrible about not doing so. Guilt.

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I feel good about taking B12...

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MBAnderson in reply tojimcaster

Thanks. Good article.

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