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“Pregnant women and women trying to conceive should be taking prenatal vitamins. The most important reason is the folate supplementation,” says s Shanna Levine, M.D. , primary care physician ...
Researchers found that taking calcium and vitamin D supplements lowered a woman’s long-term risk of dying from cancer by 7%, but increased the risk of death due to heart disease by 6%. The study ...
A review of clinical trials in the treatment of colds with small and large doses of Vitamin C has established that there is no evidence that it decreases the incidence of common colds. [28] After 33 years of research, it is still not established whether vitamin C can be used as a treatment for cancer. [29]
A 2000 study published by the European Journal of Cancer evaluated a sample of 1023 women from a British cancer registry who had breast cancer and found that 22.4% had consulted with a practitioner of complementary therapies in the previous twelve months. The study concluded that the patients had spent many thousands of pounds on such measures ...
No statistically significant effects were found for any specific cancers or cancer mortality. The 95% CI of the hazard ratio implied a benefit of between 14% and .2% over placebo. In absolute terms the difference was 1.3 cancer diagnoses, per 1000 years of life (18.3-17 events, respectively). The median follow up time was 11.2 years. [3]
Some vitamins, including multivitamins, have been shown to be beneficial in large, randomized clinical trials. Others have been shown to potentially cause harm . Many lie somewhere in between.
Epidemiologists have found evidence to suggest that long-term, high-dose supplementation with B6 and B12 may increase risk of developing lung cancer.
The view of the medical community is that there is no evidence for the efficacy of Orthomolecular medicine as a treatment for cancer, [6] and that high vitamin doses may – on the contrary – increase overall mortality. [74] Nutritional treatments are not generally accepted as being helpful for psychological health. [75]