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Excluding individuals that do not lack nutrients: What limits the quality of multivitamins, and how to address it? [closed]

This page, and this seem to suggest that multivitamins are generally useless as their value is not seen in a statistically significant manner. This also mentions that some brands use fillers, and goes ...
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A vitamin supplement can be both water and fat soluble? [closed]

How can these nutritional facts included supplement can be defined? Water-soluble or fat-soluble?
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Why did the toxicity recommendation for vitamin D changed the last 20 years?

I have recently noticed that some supplements contain a high number of vitamin D e.g.at least 50mcg (2000IU). That got me curious because references I have, written in early-mid 80s explicity state ...
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Brain performance suppliments [closed]

My 27 years old brain lacks concentration and memory, mood to perform daily task is lazy. I used to have a test most of the vitamins are ok except D and B complex Below average a little bit. Which ...
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Vitamin Supplements Frequency

Most daily multivitamins have close to 100% of the RDA for each element in the vitamin, and I believe that the nutrients get into your blood in a short time frame. Does this daily spike in vitamins ...
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How much food when taking vitamin supplements?

If you want to take a few vitamin supplements but don't have time for a meal, would 50 calories or so of food be good enough? What is the minimum amount of food intake that would be necessary for ...
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How much of the following vitamins would result in a vitamin overdose?

I drink a shed load of the energy drink 'Monster Energy.' Each single 500 ml can contains: B2 3.5mg B3 43mg B6 4.0mg B12 13ug I drink around 4 of these within a 3 hour period every day. How ...
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Mult-vitamin with more than 100% of daily recommended amount?

There are vitamins with 150% of Vit C or whatever (and sometimes even advertised with that as a plus!) If the vitamin contains more than 100% of the RDA, does it get averaged out over the week?