Does Taking a Daily Multivitamin Improve the Health of Men?

By Arthur Kavanaugh


Hey men, what's your opinion on men's multi-vitamin supplements? Good, bad or useless? Many males are examining their daily habit of supplementing with a men's multi-vitamin because of the study that appeared in "Journal of the North American Medical Association".

Called "Physicians' Health Study II", male individuals were given either a multi-vitamin or placebo and monitored from 1997-2011. Analysts revealed that men that received multi-vitamins were as subject to heart disease as the group who took placebos.

The object of the trial study was to collect data on whether or not a men's multivitamin decreased the chance of "site-specific cancer incidence or mortality". The doctors who took part in the study 1) ate nutritious diets 2) body mass indexes were low 3) exercised frequently 4) took baby aspirin daily.

Or, as Duffy MacKay VP Scientific and Regulatory Affairs, Council for Responsible Nutrition summed it up, "The indisputable fact that the participants were already engaging in these healthy behaviours would have made it extra difficult for a multi-vitamin to meaningfully contribute toward reducing any additional danger of coronary disease. "

Nevertheless the researchers reported an 8% reduced risk on all cancer types for study individuals who took a men's multi-vitamin. The study centered solely on linking men's multi-vitamins with reducing risks of cancer. Although findings show vitamins do not "meaningfully" make a contribution to reducing hazards of heart disease, it did not address the vital reason for supplementing with multiple vitamins.

Essentially, vitamins take up the slack caused by nutritional deficiencies. Are you aware that an insufficiency in one vitamin can endanger your total body?

It is possible you eat the "right" foods as an element of a well balanced diet. In that case , it's possible you get all the vitamins you require. Possible but not likely, as most people eat out regularly eat manufactured foods and snack on convenience food. Only a few people have the time or motivation to watch every morsel they eat!

What about Enriched Foods?

Do you know what enrichment of foods actually means? It suggests some nutrients are put into the foods that were removed through processing! But , not really. Take processed flour as an example. Of 22 natural nutriments that were removed due to heat, storage, for example. "enrichment" replaces them with vitamin D, three of the B vitamins, calcium and iron salts. You do the maths!

Any Tips for the Best Multivitamins for Men?

To avoid vitamin toxicity, don't supplement with over 100% of daily recommended requirements of any single vitamin. Your multi shouldn't contain iron. Men only need about 8 mg iron and usually get sufficient from eating red meat.

If you're employed in an office, you may not get enough sunlight; ensure you get 1,000 IU vitamin D each day. For a healthy heart, men need 400 mcg (micrograms) of folate daily. For brain health, the recommended amount of B12 is 2.4 mcg. For vision and to support your immune system, 3,000 IU of Vitamin A is recommended. Men need 90 mg of the anti-oxidizing agent Vitamin C daily.

These are bare bones of contents in the best multivitamins for men. The final word is: regardless of studies, most males will find advantages in a men's multivitamin.




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