Buddy Blank said...
Your entire post is conspiratorial, anti-doctor, and suggests that there is a magical quality to vitamins and supplements with regard to disease - a magical quality that simply doesn't exist.
The article you linked states: "While routine use of multivitamins and other supplements isn’t recommended for the general population, people in certain life stages or 'high risk' groups can benefit from them, the JAMA article noted."
We're talking about a pandemic that produces deadly respiratory problems in a certain percentage of people that contract it, people with cancer, and other diseases, and people that are DEFICIENT in needed nutrients. We're not talking about HEALTHY people, and those who are not deficient in nutrients, who have zero need for supplements, vitamins, etc.
Apples and oranges...........................................
You understand the logic right? It isn't hard to grasp.
I agree, the logic is not hard to grasp, and yet you continually fail to do so. You have just stated the traditional medical reasons for why "HEALTHY people, and those who are not deficient in nutrients, who have zero need for supplements, vitamins, etc.". And yet Dr. Fauci, who is held in high esteem by you, has just admitted that he himself supplements. Do you think Dr. fauci is malnourished and deficient in various vitamins? How about
you? Are you lacking in an adequate diet to give you all the vitamins you need? I ask because you have previously stated you take 4000 IU/day of D, a rather large dose. Why are you doing something like that if "HEALTHY people, and those who are not deficient in nutrients, who have zero need for supplements, vitamins, etc."?
Now you know as well as I do that many population studies have shown that most people, even in the very well fed USA, are either insufficient or outright deficient in vitamin D. Particularly before so many people, with good common sense, began supplementing in recent years. They were even more insufficient than in previous decades, because medical advice has been to avoid sunshine at all cost, covering up with clothing and sunscreen. Which of course has greatly increased the amount of vitamin D deficiency in the general population. And yet, even though you yourself of course take it (because you're not an idiot), you still keep insisting, along with some doctors, that "We're not talking about
HEALTHY people, and those who are not deficient in nutrients, who have zero need for supplements, vitamins, etc.".
I wish you would stop, or someone would stop you without closing a thread, with such stuff as "Your entire post is conspiratorial, anti-doctor, and suggests that there is a magical quality to vitamins and supplements with regard to disease - a magical quality that simply doesn't exist. ". You know darn well everything I say is based upon scientific studies, which I have supplied links to and quotes from in great numbers. There is nothing magical in what I write about
or link to, it is just the science. Nature supplies us with a abundant vitamin D from the sun exposure that people used to get a whole lot more of. I can sit out in the southern sun with my shirt off for 30 minutes and generate 10,000 units of D. But as we all know, people almost never get sunshine anymore, in fact most likely they do everything they can to avoid it. This even includes our children. Therefore, people in general are pretty deficient in vitamin D unless they supplement or get that sunshine. Nothing magical about
it, it is simple science and physiology. I so wish you would stop with those sorts of negative vibes about
the people you disagree with. I'd much rather you simply supply me with the science that contradicts me, and then we can rationally discuss that without insults.
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