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Dr. Dean Rising, 72, of Springfield, Mo., took daily pills for 30 years as part of his participation in two phases of the Physicians' Health Study, which has found that a daily multivitamin cuts men's cancer risk. Rising is shown here with his pill pack in Antarctica. As it turns out, he got the dummy pills, not the multivitamins in the randomized controlled trial.
After years of research showing dietary supplements failed to prevent cancer, a new study of multivitamin use in men has a surprising message: This one worked.
Turns out, a daily dose of Centrum Silver multivitamins reduced the total risk of cancer in study participants by 8 percent, according to gold-standard research that included nearly 15,000 male doctors older than 50 for up to 13 years.
“It does appear that there is a modest reduction in cancer among middle-aged and older men,” said Dr. J. Michael Gaziano, chief of the division of aging at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a researcher at the VA Boston Healthcare System.
The study also found that multivitamin use cut site-specific cancers, except for prostate cancer, by 12 percent, and suggested a 12 percent reduction in deaths caused by cancer, though that figure wasn’t statistically significant.
“Even total mortality went in the right direction,” said Gaziano, whose new data comes from the Physicians Health Study II published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The finding is important in a country where more than half of U.S. adults use dietary supplements, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention -- and where the most common supplement is a daily multivitamin.
Several recent studies -- including Gaziano’s own work -- have looked at whether taking specific vitamins such as C, E and B12 prevent cancer. They’ve come up empty; a few even found a higher risk of certain illnesses.
The difference, Gaziano said, is that many of those studies were limited in scope and size and they used single supplements at high doses, much higher than a daily vitamin would provide.
By contrast, the new study is the first of its kind.
“The Physicians' Health Study II represents the only large-scale, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial testing the long-term effects of a common multivitamin in the prevention of chronic disease,” the authors write.
Study participants included 14,641 U.S. men, all doctors, who received either a pack of daily supplements, including the Centrum Silver vitamins, or daily dummy pills between July 1997 and June 2011.
The doctors, who were followed for between 10 and 13 years, were excellent patients. They were pretty healthy, with a mean body mass index of 26 -- just barely overweight -- and only 3.6 percent of them smoked. They were also good sports: By the end of the trial, more than two-thirds of the docs were still taking their pills as directed, the study found.
“They are very compliant,” Gaziano said.
Take Dr. Dean Rising, 72, a Springfield, Mo., pediatrician who has participated in both phases of the Physicians' Health Study, two large-scale studies spanning 30 years. He took photos of himself and his daily "vitamins" on seven continents, including a shot a few years ago in Antartica.
"This is the sort of thing where if you don't have people testing these things, you never know the results," explained Rising.
As it turns out, he learned last year that he was enrolled in the placebo arm of the Phase II study, so he never got any vitamins at all. Now, he says, he makes sure to take one every day.
"I think it means you need a variety of different vitamins in your diet," he said of the new results.
Experts agree. The new study suggests that boosting nutrition, even with the modest nudge of a daily vitamin, could have far-reaching health benefits, said Dr. Demetrius Albanes, a senior investigator and expert in nutritional epidemiology with the National Cancer Institute.
“It’s exciting. It’s encouraging,” said Albanes.
But others cautioned that it’s too soon to make sweeping recommendations based on a single study, especially when previous trials have been mixed or have even shown harm, said Susan Gapstur, vice president of the epidemiology research program for the American Cancer Society.
“It’s important to remember that this study, as credible as it is, is still just one trial,” said “Typically we like to see these kinds of findings replicated by other studies, and in other populations, before coming to solid conclusions.”
In addition, the trial only included men who are healthier than the general population, and, of course, it excluded women. Further research would need to conduct a similar test of multivitamin use in women to determine whether that also reduced cancer risk, experts said.
Still, the results of the study could send some older men racing to buy bottles of Centrum Silver, the best-selling multivitamin produced by Pfizer, the drug company that now owns the brand. Gaziano said he picked that multivitamin early on because he thought it was a quality product that would "last over the years."
An estimated 18 million multivitamins and 18 million placebo pills were donated during the course of the trial, said MacKay Jimeson, a Pfizer spokesman who noted that the company is “very pleased” that researchers chose Centrum Silver for the study.
Gaziano said the pills and packaging were the extent of his drug company support.
For his part, Gaziano is pleased not only with the results, but also with finishing a project that occupied 17 years of his life.
“As a long-term chronic disease trialist, it feels very good to be done,” he said. “You just have to be patient. I think that when we’re talking about prevention of cancer, we’re talking about decades.”
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Great article, compelling and rich.
You stay classy MSNBC...
BTW: I take a multi-vitamin everyday
I buy the generic store brand vitamins that say "USP" on them, that way you know they have been tested and are safe. I also eat a lot of whole grain foods that are high in fiber, the RDA is 30g a day. Don't forget electrolytes your body needs: magnesium, potassium and sodium.
http://www.usp.org/dietary-supplements/overview
Magnesium, potassium, and sodium? Can I add a little Bacardi 151?
Amen, I'be been taking them for the past 30 years. Funny because I'm in that same category of less body mass, no smoking, etc. I'm going on 55 and I've got almost no grey hair except in beard. I've always attributed that in part to the vitamins. Also take a B12 each day and have always felt that's helped in alertness and memory.
I CANT EVEN AFFORD THESE FOR MY HUSBAND ANYMORE ON OUR SOCIAL SECURITY!!! PAUL RYAN WANTS US ALL TO DIE OF CANCER!!! I Would let him go but I wouldn't get sufficient SURVIVOR BENEFITS!!!!
VOTE OBAMA/BIDEN 2012 . . KEEP THE DREAM (and ME) ALIVE . . YOU PAYING FOR ME!!!
LOL HandsOff! You do know your satire might be lost on some on a non-political article, right?
“...large-scale, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial testing the long-term effects..."
That pretty much sums it up as a legit study, assuming the statistics were properly interpreted.
Of course you understand that any one patient is not a statistic.
Other studies show a MVI daily shortens your lives, especially women's lives.
Multivitamins make the assumption that just because a little bit of a vitamin is needed by the body each day, that must mean tons of that vitamin are even better.
Such BS. Have a good diet and you're fine.
HANDSOFF = bad financial planner.
I implore each and every one of you reading this article to research something called Codex Alimentarius. There have been hundreds of studies which prove high quality nutrients save us from illness, infection, and chronic disease. Codex Alimentarius is being rolled out quite swiftly all over the world. This is not a joke.
Nutrients are illegal. Join with people who are fighting Codex and spread the word about this insidious law which is making us so much sicker. It's only going to get worse if we don't fight for our right to proper nutrition.
How would you like to have to get a doctor's prescription to have enough vitamins for your body and brain to function?
Centrum. That's my brand.
Nice.
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8%? Hardly statistically significant. Further proof that Vitamins are nearly useless. Eat real food and you don't need vitamins.
Since the invention of the vitamin tablet in the 30s cancer rates have only gone up.
There was another poster who pointed out last week there was an article that MVIs actually cause cancer?
In short, if it was made in a lab - stay away from it. Try to get your vitamins from eating the fruits and vegetables which contain them and you'll be much better off.
You cannot eat pizza and a multivitamin and have the same health as a person with a good diet - there is no "miracle pill'
Imagine what a high quality multi-vitamin mineral product could have achieved.
Still waiting for someone to market vitamin-enriched condiments to fast food chains. "Would you like the Barbeque +C or the B12 Sweet'n'sour?"
Take a look at the breakfast cereal aisle. They're way ahead of you!
Yep Total Cereal provides 100% of most everything you need. Thats why its called "Total"
Yeah, but who wants their entire nutrition for the day in one meal? I mean, I suppose it would be nice to know you don't have to worry about what you eat for the rest of the day because you already got all your USRDA of all your nutrients, but if you eat crap the rest of the day, that healthy breakfast was all for naught.
Multivitamins are intended to compensate for nutritional shortcomings in your diet, so wouldn't eating a balanced diet produce even better health effects? After all, vitamins aren't some miracle substances that can be obtained only by taking a pill every day.
not everyday you get all the fresh produce line up just right on your kitchen counter and make the right balance meal exactly everytime. sometimes even the stores don't have it on particular day because of seasons, etc. so you eat what you can have for the day (beans, anyone?) and plug the holes with pills. nothing wrong with that.
There are also a lot of negative studies being introduced as well that cast vitamins and most supplements (with a few exceptions, I believe fish oil and calcium) are useless, if not harmful to take. If you look at the supplement industry and how much they are making this day in age, you might want to verify where these studies are coming from. Most vitamins are really easy to obtain with half a normal diet without supplements.
You'd have to eat 2 1/2 cups of raw of broccoli just to get 100% of vitamin A needed in one dose. Your body pees out whatever it doesn't need. Plus as Yus mentioned above.
Early Out,
I would rather eat healthy as you mention but always being on the run and extremely busy, I don't get the time to shop and cook, so like many people, I eat on the road and slam vitamins. It probably isn't the best thing to do but it is better than not doing it at all.
Hava good day...
The biggest benefit to taking supplements is that the companies that produce them gets a bigger bank account.
Just be careful with ADEK, the fat-solubal vitamins. The rest you pee out. Also, remember they put dye in vitamins so if your pee is very yellow, don't panic, yet.
Creek Dog - Vitamins A, D, E and K are fat-soluble, which mean the extra is stored in your body, not peed out. You have to be careful with these four vitamins.
Earlyout - it would be nice if we could get all our vitamins and minerals from our daily diet. Just not possible; our foods don't have the nutrition they used to have three or four decades ago. Replacing the nutrients in the land in chemically created methods is a bad idea. Add all the processing the foods are put through, the preservatives that are used (even in frozen foods), and it's a wonder it still looks like food. If you measured your food intake in vitamins in currently available foods you'd probably have to eat all day long and end up weighing 500 lbs in order to cover everything your body should get.
I object to the use of Centrum Silver. I had a relative who was incontinent who used that stuff until I got a better, organically made multi-vitamin. What a difference! Hair lose stopped and the urine stopped stinking of ammonia. It was horrible, would sting your eyes.
When I was getting ready to get pregnant I began a course of good vitamins. Noticed a big improvement with hair lose (in my 30s!). Got pregnant right away - both times, no problems. No problem with menopause, either. My friend's office of young women are all having problems getting pregnant, all are junk food junkies and wonder why.
Oh for god's sake. You people who post articles (such as the fish oil piece above) and make sweeping statements are just as bad as the vitamin fanatics. Here's a clue: read the damned research for yourself. DO the damned research for yourself. Find out what is out there. If you have a specific concern, research it. There is virtually no vitamin or supplement that is "good for everything," any more than there is any pharmaceutical drug that is good for everything.
Why is that so hard for some of you to understand? Why do you insist on taking the wildest claims and pretending those are representative?
There are some things for which DHA and EPA have enough evidence of efficacy that in those cases taking it frequently is a good idea. If you have AMD or retinopathies, lutein, GSE and some other supplements have anywhere from mild to moderate evidence for effectiveness that they're worth talking to your doctor about, both as a treatment and, more importantly, as a possible PREVENTATIVE.
Vitamin E may possibly be detrimental for prostate cancer? Do tell. Ibuprofen is sold and consumed in bottles containing hundreds of tabs by tens of millions of Americans. Want to be scared of something you can buy over the counter? Try looking at NSAID use and its contribution to risk of a variety of devastating if not fatal events. Guess what? Ibuprofen works fantastically, regardless.
Whether a product of any sort works has nothing to do with whether or not it works for everything, or everyone, or every case, or whether it does or does not carry risks with its use.
And, no, you can't simply eat your way to the beneficial levels of many "vitamins" and other supplement-supplied nutrients. I'm not going to bother explaining why that is. Do you know why? Because the explanations are already out there from a myriad of sources, medical sources.
I struggle to maintain my tennis figure, so I eat very few calories and most of that comes from protein. I take a multi-vatiman so I don't have to worry about malnutrition.
(TWOAshes - a good, grounded view.)
Unfortunately, even when you eat a so-called "balanced" diet, you're still not getting all the vitamins, minerals, and nutrients your body needs to function optimally. Much of our fruits and vegetables are grown in soil that is depleted of those necessary vitamins and minerals, not to mention all the pesticides and toxins. Exactly what is a "balanced" diet according to whom? I have been taking vitamin and mineral supplements for many years. I also do a weekly body cleanse to shed all the toxins from my organs and muscles. Toxins in our system contribute to fat gain; the more toxic we are, the more likely we are to become obese.
TBHall. I agree with you completely. Too many 'fillers' are in our processed diet. Cut the crap out and eat whole foods! But you still have deficiencies present because of the lack of quality soil.
www.redmondclay.com This stuff really helps! Multi-purpose, too.
Fish oil... egads. My dr. tried shoving this crap at me. I quote studies done on the fishing industry, mercury, diseased fish organs, etc. and he caved.
good quality study is hard to find these days, hypes by studies of a mere couple hundred dubious people often make headlines and distort truth. glad something intelligent finally emerge. now if they can prove glucosamine is just a hoax.
My doctor told me that of all the supliments, a multivitamin, a fish/krill oil pill, and if you need them a daily asperin for the heart and Saw palmetto for the prostate (works for 50% of men) are the only ones with real evidence they actually benifit you.
If "They" are saying to take multi-vitamins daily then I'm not taking em!!!
And you, in particular, should never, ever, get vaccinated for anything, either.
By the way, "They" also say you should get Novocaine if a dentist is going to do a painful procedure.
I bet the next time yo go to the dentist, you'll pussy out and all of your paranoid principlse will go out the window. You're nothing but a loudmouthed poser, aren't you?
I had to have a broken tooth repaired without Novocaine because the tooth had been sensitive to pressure for so many years that it would not numb even with a dozen shots. In fact, the pain from the shots was worse than the tooth itself. He told me to wait a week and let it rest, then I had a choice: try to numb it again or take it like a Klingon. Worf would have been proud of me. So who's the pussy now?
I understand your point is telling Michael not to go against everything just because "they" say so, but unless you plan to man up and take YOUR next procedure without Novocaine, don't be putting the "pussy" tag on others. Your point could have still been made without the namecalling. It only makes you sound like a schoolyard bully who can't win a debate without flinging epithets.
Why not? I'm not the one against taking meds, michael is. And your case is unusual, it has nothing to do with his comment or my reply.
You missed the point completely.
Novocaine doesn't work on me at all. Opioids, either. So guess what?!!!! Any time I have been to the dentist in the past twenty or so years I have had to suck it up and take the pain.
A few years ago I had to have a tooth pulled. yep. No Novocaine. Fillings, etc. No Novocaine.
In any case, everyone's physiology is a bit different. Some stuff works on a majority while the same stuff doesn't do a darn thing for a certain percentage.
There are even some essential vitamins and minerals which found in certain ways in nature, some people can absorb and some just can't. The body rebels.
Vitamin D for example. What happens when you're allergic to olive oil and lanolin and you're not going to touch fish oil with a ten foot pole because you're terrified of mercury. Guess what- you're screwed in the Vitamin D department of supplements. You just have to get your Vitamin D through plants + sun. That example was using myself, btw. My doc gave me supplements and after three months of intestinal hell I ended up researching the ingredients, trying others, and finally learned that I was allergic to olive oil and lanolin.
You have to use your common sense and research things which you feel may be in your best interest. Isn't your HEALTH worth protecting?
NO @!$%# sherlock
I knew that Centrum was going to be behind this study before I clicked on the link. This is the same company that has an ad saying it is okay to go ahead and live on fast food, because popping one of their veggie & fruit vitamins will make up for the healthy food missing from that kind of diet. Sad thing is that people still believe them.
Does seem just a leetle suspicious that the brand name was repeatedly mentioned; if Centrum has a special ingredient that others don't have, then maybe that secret ingredient reduced the cancer by 8 %.
I don't think I'm going to run out and stock up on Centrum silver just yet.
Actually, Centrum vitamins are terrible! I used to work in a health food store, where we conducted tests by creating a liquid environment to mimic the acidity of one's stomach. This allowed us to see which vitamins actually break down after we swallow them, providing the most nutrients into the blood stream. Centrum coats their vitamins in a cheap outer shell, similar to plastic & it doesn't even dissolve. Two of the best we found were Nature's Plus and Swanson - they dissolve even in water alone. They are a bit more pricey, but with vitamins, you definitely get what you pay for!
shimmer 77 - I agree! Centrum costs way too much for how little it does, and the urine output is terribly stinky.
I know people who run a johnny-on the spot business. They see Centrum and One-A-Day vitamins intact, do not dissolve at all. Yuck, eh?
Did the good doctor get an initial "incentive" for choosing Centrum Silver?
The article says that Pfizer did not "support" the study other than provide 18 million vitamins and 18 million placebos, but it doesn't say that they didn't slip the doctor some cash to choose their product over others.
That's a pretty good reduction rate, considering the vitamins provided were Centrum (one of the lowest quality vitamins you can purchase). I'm only 34 and have taken a whole-food enriched multi every day since I was 25, along with additional C, D, and Antioxidants. Since I work at a place that doesn't even offer health insurance, prevention is key for my well being. Eating a healthy diet and avoiding most fast food helps too!
I was thinking the same thing when I saw they were using Centrum. Have you ever had any exposure to opurity vitamins? I switched to them mostly because they guarantee none the ingredients originate in China.
High plant food diet like low-fat vegan without any vitamins does even better.
Don't think so. Plants don't have B12, deficiency of which can cause several health problems.
My favorite animal, steak, is a good source of B12.
B12 is on the only vitamin not found in plants--but eat any fermented plant and now, you get B12.
Mark is right--a vegan diet brings your weight to normal, stops diabetes and high blood pressure and prevents 70% of cancers.
Steak is one cause of most of these problems.
I disagree with you on that. People need some fat in their diets. It's proven to be good for you. It depends on which fats though. Meat is good for you also.
The human body and how it works is very complex. It's not a simple thing like if you eat fats it will put fat on your body or if you eat foods high in cholesterol your cholesterol level will go up.
Eating a lot of carbs, like what the experts say you should eat every day, is bad for you. It spikes your insulin levels, is turned into glucose and is then stored as fat.
I really don't think experts don't know squat on what it takes to eat healthy. Ever since the lipid theory came out in the 1950's and the government started telling people how to eat healthy, diabetes and obesity has skyrocketed. And I don't buy into fast food being the culprit. I don't know anyone who eats fast food more than once or twice a week at the most.
People are better off doing what they think is best for themselves.
Mark, not for everyone. A vegan diet will kill one of my relatives.
Avocados. Spirulina. BUTTER- not margarine. Super high vitamins and quality fats.
Stay the hell away from corn oil, soybean oil, canola oil, sunflower oils!! GM seeds. The only real good quality oil I've been able to find is extra virgin olive oil.
Learn to read the UPC does. Anything starting with a "0" will kill you as it is confirmed GMO.
Neal in Denver, I understand what you're saying about the vegan diet. I tried it and yep, I had some serious issues. Added eggs and milk back into my diet and some of those problems subsided. Took milk out of my diet but added meat back in and that fixed all of my problems!
Most people need meat.
I take a multi vitamin and mineral tab everyday. I am also involved with a drug study where I am taking a high dose of vitamin D plus an anti oxidant.
check out bioshieldpill.com and learn what ionizing radiation does to your DNA, double strand breaks. Learn about radiobiology. They've known this for years and the latent effects of it, too. No xrays, dental/chest or CT or contrasts are safe. NONE. no MRI metal gadolinium injected for the magnets is safe either. Both cause fibrosis of arteries, tissue, organs, skin damage, bone marrow, esphageal sx, stomach, you name it , it happens, sooner or later. And none of this is related to radiation therapy which uses higher doses of it. see double strand DNA breaks. see human radiation experiments. See, the twins used on the cities in 1945, that population "control" study has run out of victims, but there are new ones with the GMO fake foods , generations of people to study the effects. all that damage on children, women, disabled, elderly, and environmental damage, too. They haven't learned a damm thing, to stop meddling with humanity is what they have not learned. see bioshieldpill com or the fda alert blackbox warning on gadolinium (metal) and all the new alerts today on antibiotics and other meds. consumerlab com is a site you have to pay for it's use. they track you if you look at their info, then offer you a discount if you don't sign on at first. that was enough for me not to use it. You need to extract yourself from any drug "studies". don't be another victim with hidden junk used in their tracer studies.
Vitamins help with many conditions, not just cancer. However, as mentioned, we need to watch some of them. Buying out a health-foods store or every supplement even in WM is not the best idea. Chinese mushrooms are also good with cancer. I've used the chemo with eastern meds in conjunction and others I know used just the Chinese herbs for various reasons.
I take my dogs, fostered rescues and mine, to a veterinarian who uses western and eastern medicines. Critters are like a fast-forward (like canaries in a coal mine) so you see things with them many years before a human. Thus, what I learned there helps a great deal for the human family members. My dogs were on Gluc/Chond/MSM at least a decade before humans were routinely on it (it seems like "routinely" is defined by Costco carrying it). I ran out and it took me almost a week to get back to the store-the limping started again.
Ditto for filtering the water-the lumps under the dogs skin and lesions stopped growing and got smaller, once I started filtering again and then went away within a couple of weeks after I started boiling the water.
The water here comes from aquifers, this place was once heavy with farms and in some spots, industry, and all that leached in. Not far from here, the water is much better-comes from reservoirs in the country.
So, although ideally, we should eat and drink right, plus exercise, keep the excess weight off our joints, etc., popping a multi-vitamin is a good start AFTER you have your PCP run a blood test.
search double strand DNA breaks and ionizing radiation, that's xrays to you. also, GMO corn/soy in dog food is dangerous as the tumors it cause. I had to change to organix food, costly, but as dog got better with skin the eyes/tearing /runny nose cleared , too. see bioshield pill com or premiermicronutrient com or the Bioshield book /radiobiology. reverse osmosis water filtering helps. Glad your dog is better.
More hype for the drug companies. And anyway, I thought it was banning cigarettes that would cut cancer risk. They'll keep searching for ways to abolish cancer until they figure out they can't. There will always be something.
Supplements are a different industry, one that's protected from the FDA by loopholes so they don't have to label side effects, like drugs do.
Research Codex Alimentarius, James. The FDA isn't protecting anyone now except their employers. Halliburton. Monsanto. Big Pharma. Oh, and lest we forget: Serco!!!!!!!!!! And who runs Serco? Who the hell knows.
Supplements = nutrition. Nutrients are being banned through Codex.
The FDA is a marionette with so many strings to pull it's ridiculous. Too many people don't realize that yet, though. The FDA may claim that supplements are protected from them but they're NOT. Big Pharma is building business as the nutrients are being sucked out of our diet.
You are 100% correct, Angelpointe. Besides the FDA, Monsanto runs the USDA. I am glad that I am 62 years old, own a couple of acres where I grow almost everything I eat, but I fear for my grandchildren.
I'd love to own a few acres. My green thumb would be wielded with pride. But I live in an apartment so the best I can do is grow dozens of rotated varieties of sprouts in trays. There's lots of nutrition to be had-- and a lot of flavor. I really enjoy them. I eat them raw, steam them, bake them into things, etc. I just check to make sure the seeds are not GMO and are organically raised. There are some good people out there still(and businesses) who see exactly what's going on and they're doing all that they can to protect heirloom seeds.
I fear for my two children, Sunny; and your grandchildren. They've been vaccinated to hell and back before we knew what was going on and could stop it for ourselves and they've been raised around so many chemicals their bodies don't know how to recognize healthy stuff.
We do what we can.
Did you hear about that raid on a woman's daisy garden a few weeks ago?!! Buwuahahah! These dumbassed cops ripped up tons of her daisies because they thought they were pot! I'd love to chalk it up to public education or fluoride in the water but geeze... if the cops are so wacked in the head we're in real trouble. The leaves looked nothing like pot.
So the placebo pills contained carcinogenic substances??
I try to keep an open mind on this kind of thing but I couldn't help but notice that they never mention what they mean by "cancer." Which kinds? Without that little detail it just sounds like more quackery, treating cancer as a single disease.
radiation induced cancers, though some are viral as you seem to know different types. ionizing xrays/CT scans/contrasts are deadly with latent effects with just one of these exposures. see radiobiology or even Radiation Induced Meningiomas, I have one, not genetic. 95% of RIM are from Xrays/head/neck/CT scans. not symptomatic. The idiot MD's I HAD, seemed to think this is funny. That's why they are fired.
radiation causes double strand DNA breaks in 67% of DNA, with mitotic phases/ within 1 mS of exposure.
search it. see bioshield pill com
Rediculous.
How about this...
"Marijuana
And Cancer: Scientists Find Cannabis Compound Stops Metastasis In Aggressive
Cancers "
Would it be the folly of all time, if it was discovered that marijuana was 'the
cure' ? And that over 70 years of merciless efforts to stop drug use, all the
lives lost on both sides of the war on drugs, the billions and billions spent
on law enforcement and incarceration, the trillions spent on cancer research,
which because of law, they were not allowed to research marijuana. I think that
someday, when we finally meet the aliens, we probably wouldn't tell them about
that part of our luminous history.
If I find out it would have helped with my sister’s breast
cancer…I’m going to be pissed.
Trust me, it is not the answer or we would have had massive anecdotal evidence of it by now.
But Pedro, MaryJ is a natural plant. Big Pharma can't make any money off it.
Read up on who all the money for pink ribbons goes to. THEN you'll be pissed! And they've accomplished exactly what with all that money for the past few decades??? Not a darn thing.
I only donate money directly to the research scientists themselves, not to organizations who have so many layers that you're not sure what the money is being used for. And I don't donate to cancer orgs. Not that I don't care-- I DO! but Big Pharma has too much to gain by us losing our lives. There's nothing in it for them but $$$$$. So don't give them your money. Give it to independent researchers!! THAT is where all the REAL progress is being made!!
Many men see taking vitamins as 'un-macho', and then have a higher risk of cancer.
Have you noticed that reporters have to use the term dummy pill instead of placebo these days? I guess it's because they're writing for dummies...not on this site, of course.
I used to take Centrum and on a whim I switched to GNC mega man multi vitamin and you can see why people swear by it.
Enough already! Jesus H. Christ people! Eat right. Exercise. Don't smoke. Get checkups. Then if you die, you die. But quit f*****g worrying about it. You're driving the rest of us f*****g insane.
how much did the vitamin companies pay to state this,only natural foods will prevent cancer,these corporations pay people to advertise this.........
funny thing,there was a couple other studies that showed that people who consumed thes supplements had a 10 year shorter life expectancy. As a few century old people if they take vitamins... you will hear no.....
Other studies show a MVI daily shortens your lives, especially women's lives.
Multivitamins make the assumption that just because a little bit of a vitamin is needed by the body each day, that must mean tons of that vitamin are even better.
Such BS. Have a good diet and you're fine.
.. and if your diet is compromised by bad soil to grow it in, lack of nutrients, and GMO seeds + pesticides... then what, Bart?
Yeah.
Reducing cancer by only 8%?
Want to reduce your chance of getting cancer by 70-80%? Try a vegan diet.
Confused? Read the CHINA STUDY and EAT TO LIVE--They will convince you in a heartbeat
I can guarantee that if my relative eats a vegan diet, that relative will not get cancer because that relative will be dead in less than a year. Vegan does not work for everyone because for some those 8 (or 10) essential amino acids are not enough.
search radiobiology and double strand dna breaks and auntminnie com 7 May 2012 Antioxidant Halve DNA Damage, under home/radiology news, about pg 33 search all what radiation induced symptoms cause. these are not routine, but damaging with latent effects.