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Originally Posted by Mean Mr. Mustard
But anecdotal evidence is awful. There are many reasons that you didn't get sick, to chalk it up to taking vitamins isn't a very good reason. There is a placebo effect, which the video was largely about (and Ben Goldacre also wrote the book Bad Science which features a section on the placebo effect), in which you respond to the pills because you are taking pills, not because of what is in the pills. It has nothing to do with being a keyboard warrior (a phrase that seems ludicrous given that no one is being verbally aggressive), it has to do with looking at the evidence that is available using scientific studies and examining effectiveness as a result. Odds are that vitamins are doing nothing positive for you except making you feel better because you are taking vitamins.
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Actually one of the biggest things why I believe they work is because I usually don't get enough sleep as I should per night (usually 5-6 hours instead of 7-8) . . . Lack of sleep weakens your body and makes it susceptible to catching viruses, but since the vitamin intake, I haven't increased my sleep and my body has strengthened to viruses, at least from a purely observational view.