Vitamin Pills Are a Waste of Time and Money, Study Shows

Hey - not so fast. If you do your research and talk with a GOOD - peferably a DO who knows their stuff - doctor, you can find a whole new world of improved health through vitamins and appropriate supplements. For instance, I have Diabetes Type II and my former podiatrist recomended a B vitamin complex (available through Rx only) called FOLTX (a combination of several B vitamins (B6, B12 and another one) for nueropathy associated pain. I couldn't lie on my side without suffering tremendously from stabbing and shooting pains going through my legs from the waiste down to my feet. It was absurd! I didn't think that this would help as I've been taking good over the counter vitamin supplements full of B vitamins for a few years.

What do you know? This stuff worked like a charm. So much so that I forgot all about it and forgot to take the medication for a week or so and the nueropathy returned and reminded me. I resumed taking the medication and in no time I was back to normal. I was really dubious that one extra vitamin would have any effect, much less a profound one, on the pain. Fabulous stuff. People just don't realize how vital proper nutrition (even if you have to get it in the form of a vitamin) can be. It's very important that you have, or can find, a doctor who knows their stuff nutritionally - and not your average dietician, either. The way certain vitamins act in combination, and even with certain foods, can make a huge difference in your health.

Granted, you have to know what you're doing. There are so many vitamins out there that are just bogus and a waste of money and worse, no help to your system. But with the proper research and knowledge, you can do your body a lot of good. It's the only you've got - take care of it.

The bottom line: this study is inaccurate. Also, unfortunately most doctors today have been trained (by the pharmeceutical/drug companies) to push DRUGS. It's all about the money and I've heard the pitch that some of these reps give to the doctors and the doctors don't have a clue about what these reps are talking about (you'd be suprised how true that is) and take them at their word and push the prescriptions off on their patients often doing more harm than good. The FDA is a racket. It's a crime. I find over and over that I know more than the doctors just by researching and my own personal experiences.

As long as we're talking FDA and drugs, it's harder and harder for doctors to prescribe narcotics, when often a narcotic would do the job that these complex and 'fancy' non-narcotic drugs (which can cost 100 times that of the narcotic) don't begin to do. Most of them aren't even safe and have tons of side-effects. Did you know that methadone (for chronic and long term pain) is the cleanest drug you can take for pain? There are no additives and other coponents that can harm your liver and other organs. Taken as prescribed it's hugely effective. The FDA is working to have it banned. It's ridiculous - and I've got first hand experience with all KINDS of pain meds - narcotic and not. I've had over 30 surgeries and suffered from the most debilating migraines you can imagine. It's criminal that people who need narcotics can't get them because of all the abuse that goes on - I say deal with the abusers and let people live their own lives. Sick, miserable people have no lives due to their illness and the drug that could turn them around isn't even available to them. Most doctors just think narcotics are a NO NO and don't have a real clue. It's ashame. Hate to break it to you folks, but most doctors I've seen have no clue about medicine. They know what they know and pull out their PDR to refercence a case that isn't common. And since the drug companies lose $ by prescribing the far cheaper (and far more effective) narcotic, they are trying to make sure that those DON'T/CAN'T get prescribed. I don't even think most of the medical commuity is even aware they're being hoodwinked over money.

I know a lot of folks will disagree with this point of view, but I've developed this opinion after living it for 30 years. Do the math.
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How were the vitamins taken? It takes about 3 months for some vitamins to show their effect. Did the study go further than 3 months? Was there a difference during the first three months and after the three initial months?Most vitamins must be taken with a meal. Were the vitamins in the study taken with meals or alone? How was a before and after difference established?