Rule #3 As For Supplement, Take vitamin D and forget the rest

There is an easy way to acquire vitamin D: just expose yourself to sun for 10 minutes/day and your body will produce naturally the right amount of vitamin D you need. To have the maximum effect expose your whole body unprotected (you can keep your bathing suit though). Unfortunately with all the ads on skin cancer, the general population are starting to miss off that essential vitamin.

Supplements are for deficiency

The doctor prescribed your vitamin or essential elements for your deficiency should be the major case to take supplement. The only essential element missing in Western diet is vitamin D. If you follow the American Dietary Guidelines, you should be fine in 99.99% of the cases. A 1000 UI a day should be plenty.

Lawsuit is in the air

The Center for Science in the Public Interest was threatening Bayer with a lawsuit. The group stated that Bayer run a scam by running false allegation on it’s One-A-Day vitamins supplement which claim the product lower the risk of prostate cancer since it contain selenium supplement. A team from the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center published a cancer research in the journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) which show that supplement selenium and vitamin E had no impact on prostate cancer. Furthermore Food and Drug Administration answers a similar claim of Bayer that selenium supplement showed not benefit on cancer.

Why the confusion?

In cancer research, the researcher used the extract and molecule, one at a time in a simplified model to identify the mechanism of action. But what worked in the model does not necessarily work in a more complex environment. The molecules still need to get intact to the cancer cell and by stripping all the protection around the molecule, you may encounter counter-productive effect.

Bottom line

If you want supplements get them in your food. A lot safer, tastier and cheaper.