Topic: Dr Oz & Vitamins

[seaotter]

I don't know how to go on this one. There is

Ideally, we'd get all the vitamins we need from foods we eat, but few of us actually do.

. It's my understanding that it's the opposite.

But... Then there is

choose one(multivitamin) that supplies 100 percent of your daily allowance, and avoid megadosing.

, which isn't unreasonable if unnessisary.

He also says

You may want to take 600 milligrams of calcium for bones, 400 milligrams of magnesium, and 1000 IU of vitamin d3.

I listened to the skeptically speaking with the pharmacist talking vitamins a while back, but I don't really remember the bottom line. I think he said that there seemed to be initial evidence that we might want to take d.

[seaotter]

http://skepticallyspeaking.ca/episodes/63-vitamins

[superdave]

relative to Dr.  Oz, that's pretty good advice. 

[seaotter]

It's like he stays just reasonable enough that people think he is a "real" doctor.

His video is even better. It mentions that some vitamins are toxic at high doses.

http://www.parade.com/health/oz/2012/04/08-multivitamins.html

[superdave]

the diet of most americans is so bad that if not for fortification of foods combined with overeating, most people probably would need vitamins.  But those things do exist.

[Neon Genesis]

It's like he stays just reasonable enough that people think he is a "real" doctor.

He has to make up for that psychic episode somehow.