Are you feeling tired right now? Useless to make a cure in vitamin C, if one follows the conclusions of a group of American experts. Scientists from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the University of Warwick in the United States are categorical: we tend to take vitamin cures when we do not need them. “Additional vitamin intake from adults who eat a balanced diet has no health benefit.”
The researchers go further than concluding that vitamin supplementation is useless. They think they should be avoided altogether. According to them, it is a derisory gesture of prevention because our diet is sufficiently filled with vitamins. “We eat in excess but our diet is completely adapted” to meet our vitamin and mineral needs, say scientists in the medical journal Annals of Internal Medicine.
With these assertions, these American experts go against the grain of medical recommendations. For example, doctors generally believe that vitamin D supplementation can prevent certain diseases and taking calcium can help bone formation.
The Americans prove that this is not the case based on the results of several scientific works carried out on the subject. First, a study of 450,000 people reported no benefit associated with taking vitamins on mortality.
A second study of 6,000 men also failed to establish any positive effect of vitamin supplementation on cognitive decline.
Finally, the third study selected by the experts followed 1,700 men and women suffering from heart problems. Again, it did not show any benefit related to taking vitamins.