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Originally Posted by iccky
The science suggests that taking a daily multivitamin doesn't do much good, but probably doesn't hurt either. So figure that while you should probablly take one, don't waste a lot of time or money on it.
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I was always kind of skeptical. I mean, your body is designed to take in these compounds a little bit at a time over the course of the day, in the context of normal food. We expect it to absorb and make as efficient use of these vitamins and minerals when they're dropped into our system is a single pill early in the morning? I doubt it. |
This is why you are told to take the multivitamin with a meal. It doesn't matter when you take the vitamin, during lunch would work as well. As long as your body has an ample supply of the essential vitamins, you are fine.
On another topic, for every study that says multivitamins are useless you will find another one saying they are the best thing you can do for your body.
My take on it is that the generic/store-brand multivitamins go for around $6-8 for 300 pills. That is ~2.6 cents per pill/day. Pretty cheap way to potentially ward away future ailments/diseases without any risk (as long as you don't chug down 15 pills).