Are There Pro-Oxidant, Cytotoxic and DNA-Damaging Anti-Oxidants in Your Supplements? Not all Forms of Vitamin C and Vitamin A are Equally "Harmless"!
Image 1: The common believe that you could not satisfy your micro-nutrient requirements without the use of a daily multi-vitamin flushes >8 billion US$ into the coffers of the industry. I assume just one of the consumers who spent about >8 billion dollars in total for multi-vitamins each year ( Balluz. 2000 ), aren't you? Now, tell me: Did it ever occur to you that some of those cheap vitamins, which are meant to provide you with all the vital nutrients you are supposed to be missing, because you are eating pizza, pasta and burgers instead of real food, could actually be killing your cells and damaging your DNA? In case you haven't I suggest you read on and take a look at the results of a recently published study by Therese Bergström, Jan Bergmann and Lennart Möller from the Department of Biosciences and Nutrition in Huddinge, Sweden ( Bergström. 2011 ). Before we get to the details, I want you to to go and take a look at the bottle of the multivitamin (or mult...