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"Don't stop taking your multivitamin."
That's the simple advice offered by board-certified family practitioner David Brownstein, M.D., in the wake of heavily publicized recent studies that concluded a daily multivitamin does not have health benefits.
After carefully reviewing the studies, Dr. Brownstein, one of the nation's top practitioners of holistic medicine, concluded that they aren't worth the paper they're printed on.
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"I have been practicing medicine for more than 20 years, and I can assure you I have never seen a patient harmed by taking multivitamins," Dr. Brownstein tells Newsmax Health. "However, I have had many patients harmed from FDA-approved pharmaceutical drugs.
That's the simple advice offered by board-certified family practitioner David Brownstein, M.D., in the wake of heavily publicized recent studies that concluded a daily multivitamin does not have health benefits.
After carefully reviewing the studies, Dr. Brownstein, one of the nation's top practitioners of holistic medicine, concluded that they aren't worth the paper they're printed on.
Special: Get Dr. Brownstein's Bestselling Diet Guide For Only $4.95 — Save 67%. Click Here.
"I have been practicing medicine for more than 20 years, and I can assure you I have never seen a patient harmed by taking multivitamins," Dr. Brownstein tells Newsmax Health. "However, I have had many patients harmed from FDA-approved pharmaceutical drugs.
"In
the first place, one of the studies used very low potency vitamins — so
low that I don't expect anyone would think that they could help
anything. Second, most of the multivitamins used in the studies were
cheap synthetics, not natural vitamins. Inexpensive vitamins are made
with synthetics, and many of the substances are made from
petrochemicals, which provide a suboptimal response and can even be
dangerous."
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