Comments by "Deborah Freedman" (@deborahfreedman333) on "Daily multivitamin intake may slow cognitive decline in older adults, study shows" video.

  1. A lot of comments by people too lazy to look the paper up. The study was designed to prove the efficacy of a cocoa extract, and the multivitamin (Centrum Silver) was used as a control. So, no, this was not funded by the vitamin manufacturer. If you peruse pubmed, you'll find a lot of papers showing the beneficial effects, on memory and cognition, of several vitamins and minerals, so this is hardly a novel finding. My primary takeaway, from this paper, is that negative results are often more useful than positive ones. They intended to show chocolate was good for cognition, and instead proved the benefits of a simple, inexpensive multivitamin. (I rather wish the results had been otherwise. I'd have loved to tell my children, that the chocolate I eat, is to keep my mind sharp.)
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  2. Cool. But anecdotal evidence is meaningless.
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  3.  @Nylphinx  You can't post links, they get deleted. Use a search engine. The study was done at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. The PI was Laura D. Baker, PhD. Published in Alzheimer's & Dementia, which is open access. The name of the article is "Effects of cocoa extract and a multivitamin on cognitive function: A randomized clinical trial". Look in section 2.1, Study Design.
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  4.  @RiDankulous  No. While it is possible, in theory, to overdose on fat soluble vitamins (A,D,E,K) excess water soluble vitamins are removed by the kidneys. And, you have to take a whopping big dose of the fat soluble ones, to have toxic effects. A normal multivitamin is fine.
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  5. There is no study linking vitamins to polyp formation. There are a few studies linking excess calcium consumption to polyp formation in the colon. So, it was probably your mineral intake, not vitamin intake, that was the problem. Go ahead and take vitamins that don't have excess Ca.
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  6. Centrum Silver.
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  7. Centrum Silver.
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  8. The idea, that synthetic vitamins are not utilized, is absolute BS. And, other than being an organic (carbon containing) molecule, ascorbic acid has nothing in common with glucose, or any other sugar. Take a class in organic chemistry and biochemistry. You're spouting nonsense.
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  9. What study, and by whom?
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  10. Look the study up. It was designed to show a cocoa extract would stave off dementia, and the multivitamin was only given as a control.
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  11. They used a multivitamin that costs about a dime a day. Try again.
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  12. Since the study was designed to show the efficacy of cocoa extracts, and the multivitamin was a control, you're wrong!
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  13. Nope. Read the paper.
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  14. I read the study. The multivitamin was Centrum Silver, which costs about a dime a day.
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