Supplements in the News
Vitamin Supplementation Benefits are Real
Perhaps the only advantage of getting old is being able to look back and see what worked and what didn't. Knowledge of severe vitamin deficiency diseases is an example of learning the hard way. The association of vitamin B1 (thiamine) with beriberi was perhaps the first example of the consequences of refining a food. Milling away the unattractive outer husk of the rice that contained the thiamine caused the disease. No drug could substitute for that missing, essential, "vital amine." That's how "vitamins" first got their name.
Vitamin D Reduces Cancer Risk
Why Scientists Accept It but Physicians Do Not
by William B. Grant, PhD Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, Feb 6, 2019
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