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Originally Posted by puckluck2
I never claimed anything. I simply said my doctor advised me to take some. My doctor is well trained and has a tremendous amount of education so I'll trust he isn't going to advise something he wouldn't feel comfortable with taking himself.
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What if two equally trained doctors have contradictory opinions? What if a doctor with greater credentials disagrees with your doctor?
I actually did some legwork and looked into a few of the articles on pubmed - I won't repost the articles in their entirety here due to copywrite issues but if other people have access and are interested I encourage you to read them.
Macpherson H, Pipingas A, Pase MP (2013) Multivitamin-multimineral supplementation and mortality: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 97(2):437-44. doi: 10.3945/ajcn.112.049304.
"Although the current meta-analysis suggests that MVMM can be used safely, the available evidence does not suggest that MVMMs protect against all-cause mortality, mortality due to vascular disease, or mortality due to cancer. Although a trend was found for MVMM supplementation to reduce the risk of all-cause mortality when used for primary prevention, this result did not reach statistical significance." (p. 442).
And one that has a contradictory opinion and this one is free so read up.
J. Michael Gaziano, MD, MPH; Howard D. Sesso, ScD, MPH; William G. Christen, ScD; Vadim Bubes, PhD; Joanne P. Smith, BA; Jean MacFadyen, BA; Miriam Schvartz, MD; JoAnn E. Manson, MD, DrPH; Robert J. Glynn, ScD; Julie E. Buring, ScD
. (2012). Multivitamins in the Prevention of Cancer in MenThe Physicians' Health Study II Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of the American Medical Association. 308(18), 1871-1880. doi:10.1001/jama.2012.14641.
"In this large-scale, randomized, placebo-controlled trial among middle-aged and older men, long-term daily multivitamin use had a modest but statistically significant reduction in the primary end point of total cancer after more than a decade of treatment and follow-up."