I’ve gone back and forth on taking a multivitamin since I know my diet isn’t all that great. Ideally I should be working to improve that diet but let’s say due to certain circumstances that’s a bit difficult at the moment.

Would it be worth taking a 1 a day multivitamin to at least correct some possible deficiency or is it very unlikely that it would have any effect?

Not asking for professional medical advice or anything, mostly looking to see if anyone else is taking a multivitamin and if so why?

  • olafurp@lemmy.world
    253·
    10 months ago

    Depends. Many minerals in the multivitamin are not bioavailable and some block absorption of others. Since there are so many together you can’t tell if it will have the desired effect and in which quantity.

    There are some vitamins that definitely have a positive effect such as A, C, E, K and B12 but a 100% RDA of zinc with zincoxide does fuck all.

    So it’ll most likely have a positive effect. That being said the cliche is true: It’s not a replacement for a healthy nutrient rich diet and balanced diet.

    Eat:

    • Whey protein (great amino acid profile)
    • Fish oil (D and Omega3)

    Limit:

    • Sugar
    • Alcohol
    • Vegetable oil
    • Processed food
      • astral_avocado@lemm.ee
        44·
        10 months ago

        There’s new studies that disagree, they are easily oxidized fats and there’s evidence that they heavily contribute to heart disease. Saturated fats from animal sources seems to be the way to go.

        Then again if you don’t exercise and aren’t metabolically healthy you’ll probably still have issues regardless of what you do.

        • olafurp@lemmy.world
          21·
          10 months ago

          That’s the one. :)

          To add to that there seems to be a link between vegetable oil and weight gain when calories are kept equal between two groups of rodents.

        • The Giant Korean@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          Can you post those studies? Pretty much all the studies I’ve seen show that unsaturated fats are what you want.

          https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29174025/

          Conclusions: Reducing saturated fat and replacing it with carbohydrate will not lower CHD events or CVD mortality although it will reduce total mortality. Replacing saturated fat with PUFA, MUFA or high-quality carbohydrate will lower CHD events.

          https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0939475317302375

          Most meta-analyses, except the Nurses Health Study and the Health Professionals Follow up Study combined, that have examined replacement of total saturated fat with total carbohydrate in cohort studies have found no effect on CHD events or deaths. Only when replacement of saturated fat with polyunsaturated or monounsaturated fat or high quality carbohydrate is examined is benefit shown.

          There is some recent evidence that some unsaturated fats are unhealthy from another perspective, like soybean oil, but that isn’t all of them (e.g. olive oil is still healthy for you).