So ive read and heard on tv that taking multivitamins more than twicw a week can cause cancer????....i thought taking them was supposed to be good not bad??...Can someone clear this up for me please?
2007-10-22 16:55:46 · 9 answers · asked by 98transam 1 in Health ➔ Alternative Medicine
That depends on the type and quality of the supplements. Some supplements contain low grade ingredients which burden the body more than help it. Also if your body has heavy metals (and most people nowadays have) your system will not get all the nutrients it needs. Hence people take more and more supplements because they don't feel anything from taking there vitamins because the body is not coping with what's in it. Parasites also cause problems as they take all the nutrients before you get them.
If you are for example already high in Iron and you take supplements with Iron it can cause problems. Most people take supplements without knowing if they actually need them or if they overburden their body and causing problems down the line, like cancer and other long term illnesses.
The first step in any program before supplementation should be elimination of toxins and parasites. A clean body will be able to uptake and utilize supplements efficiently. Saving you money and headaches in the long run.
2007-10-22 18:06:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's the source of the vitamins. The natural ones are different than the ones made in the lab.
Plants are really complicated, and you can't just whip up the same thing in the lab.
For example one study showed that people that ate carrots had lower levels of cancer (including lung). They gave people synthetic beta carotene and their rate of cancer didn't just go up, but Tripled for smokers (over the control group that wasn't taking it.)
Another study showed that men who take synthetic vitamins are more likely to have prostate cancer.
Synthetic vitamines do not necessarily work in the same way natural ones do. Like people take 'Vitamin E', but there are 8 different kinds, and they do different things. Most pills are just one kind.
2007-10-23 05:45:53 · answer #2 · answered by DRD 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is absolutely no evidence to show or indicate that multivitamins cause any type of cancer. In fact they more that likely will help to avoid it. A goog one to take for overall health and well being is Nature's Way Alive~! multivites. With all the chemicals, preservatives and pesticides in our food supply, food has little nutritional value any more. So supplementing major antioxidants and nutrienst is crucial as is a decent diet and lifestyle.
2007-10-23 00:18:12 · answer #3 · answered by happyjack 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no an over loaded sack causes prostrate cancer.
a healthy sex life and never leaving it full to long is best protection.
prostrate cancer is natures way of saying you a waist of space and removing you from the equation.
2007-10-23 08:34:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
well yes taking to much multivitamins might cause something of the sort. but taking when directed is completely fine.
2007-10-23 00:00:54 · answer #5 · answered by Matthew R 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Takeing them is good i've been takeing them for decades.
My Father died of prostrate cancer but he never took any vitamins
2007-10-23 00:01:55 · answer #6 · answered by doc_holliday1863 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2007-10-25 20:31:28 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
sure any thing that's made in a factory could. they are full of carcinogens
2007-10-23 00:56:50 · answer #8 · answered by lion_hawk7 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Know more about Cancer !
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God Bless..........
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2007-10-24 03:48:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋