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Comment Doesnt even convey a message about supplementation (Score 1) 707

I'm sure that all the "facts" are correct, but my skepticism about this article comes from the fact that it raises more questions than it seems to answer. It doesn't actually mention anything that happens to the patients health, but instead mentions conclusions of those conducting the studies(maybe that's normal and I just had too much free time at work to look into it). This article only mentions 1 water soluble vitamin making it the only interesting conclusion, and only mentions 3 vitamins total(lets all realize that the title implies a conclusion about vitamin supplementation in general) without giving any information on the duration of the study or the dosages(or did I miss that?) which seems like an important detail because we've known about vitamin toxicity for a long time and there's no other way to compare or contrast the study to what we think of as normal vitamin supplementation or more like the example of the guy that was taking like 15 grams of vitamin A. So there are really only 3 ways that you could interpret this article. Either A. The vitamins had a different and detrimental effect because they were supplemented rather than obtained through diet, or B.a larger amount of the vitamin was causing detrimental effects or C. They're not actually saying anything new about vitamins but simply telling a story about how people were tricked a long time ago into taking toxic levels of vitamins. In situation A that would be somewhat new, but very strange that they just completely forgot to mention it, and in situation B if they were following those recommendations of taking 15g of vitamin A every day, they wouldn't actually be arguing anything contrary to what has already been the general consensus about Hyper-vitaminosis for a very long time(except for the vitamin C part). Situation C is even more misleading because the title of the article clearly makes it sound like you will incur detrimental effects from consuming within the RDA of vitamins if you're supplementing vitamins. Assuming the asserted facts of the article are true, there's still no way to interpret it without it being misleading.

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