An interesting news items on Multi-Vitamins

These may not be "new" news to some, but it may be.  It goes along with what my own PCP felt about Vitamins and with what I was told by the Oncology Dietician at my Oncology Rehab.  This article even mentions multi-vitamins and prostate cancer.

Not saying I agree or disagree, just sharing information.  Hopefully it can be viewed and discussed civilly.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/40557895/ns/health-diet_and_nutrition/t/time-kick-multivitamin-habit-studies-suggest/?lite&lite=obnetwork

david

(please don't shoot the messenger - me, just a simple news story, wasn't looking for it, was just catching up on online news, like most news stories, I realize they are going for viewers/ratings first)

Post Edited (Purgatory) : 7/2/2013 8:44:40 PM (GMT-6)

I tracked my food intake on the USDA's free SuperTracker program for a while, and wasn't getting enough of some essential vitamins, so am taking a multi-vitamin supplement. I live in the far north U.S. and we don't get enough sun, so I had a low Vitamin D level and now take it as a supplement. Your mileage may vary.

Hi David,

Thanks for the URL. I'm one of those guys that were trying to supplement a so-so diet with a 'once a day' pill :-(.

I have about 3 pills left and was just about to get another bottle, but will save the $10 and spend it on a beer or two.

It seems that every time I visit this site I learn something. Another day not wasted .

Hope you're doing ok and that you will improve down the line.

Wishing you all the best.

Mag

  

kurt, so true you last sentence really is.

If I were inclined to take a vitamin, I would still do so, regardless of what my own doctors have suggested. But I was never into vitamins or supplements on my own accord. And for those that take multi-vitamins, I see it as a personal choice, and I don't see any harm from partaking.

From the little bit I learned (and not pretending to be enlightened here), that most vitamins in tablet or liquid form, do not integrate into the body as well as how they react in their natural forms in the foods that contain them. So as my PCP has told me for years, that for the most part, men are only producing expensive urine, as most of the vitamins they consume simply pass right through the body.

Again, not knowledgeable enough to know if that is literally true or not, but does kind of make sense.

david

I had posted a message on multi vitamins a couple of years ago after a local retired doctor who writes in the local paper  discussed a study that said multi vitamins were found to feed prostate cancer. It came from some Source like NCI, but I never found the study and the Dr. Passed away about one year ago so I was never able to contact him.

Michael

Thanks for the enlightening thread .........

  I have been on something of a supplement strike for at least 6-months now ... that is, Centrum Silver + Krill Oil! Just kind of got tired of meds after the PCa and COPD required daily meds. Will be seeing my Onco in two days for a couple of tests - and will ask him his opinion on supplements!

  By the way ...... shortly after my Mother was admitted to an Assisted Living Home for Dimentia last September, her new doctor took her off of multi-vitamins ...... hmmmmm! And a few months later, off of the Namenda. His opinion - the Home she is in cooks fresh vegetables (never canned), and there is such a thing as wasted medication!

Thanks again!!!

PCa first diagnosed in 2003/2004

Radiation (5x5weeks) in 2004

Brachytherapy (96 seeds) in 2004

Low PSA readings for 6-years

COPD diagnosed in 2007

Return and spread of PCa in 2009/2010

Two Uro's fired in 2009/2010

Kidney problems (PCa associated) in 2011 to present

Nefrostomy tube (right) + Kidney stent (left) in 2012/2013

Pelvic catscans - total of 7 - from 2011 to present

Casodex - briefly in 2011

Lupron - after Casodex - from 2011 to present

Zytiga - Feb 2012 thru Jul 2012 - steadily increasing PSA

Predisone - 5mg x 2 daily from 2012 to once daily current

Xgeva - monthly injections from August 2012 to current

Taxotere - August 2012 into April 2013 - 11 sessions

Taxotere progress - PSA from 54+ at start - down to 12+ in April

No chemo for 2+ months - to mid-june 2013 - PSA up to 23+

Xtandi - started late June ....... to ????

  It does suck, doesn't it! But ... thank God, very little pain ... and hopes that Xtandi works in bringing down the PSA.

  Darn ....... forgot to mention vitamins in my list!!!

 

I dropped multivitamins a few years ago.

I still take some food based supplements and vitamin b-6 and b-12.

Some multivitamins have iron, copper and zinc which are not considered too good.

This might clarify things a little (or make it more confusing):

http://www.health.harvard.edu/newsweek/Multivitamins-and-prostate-cancer.htm

Paul, glad to hear of your talking to the volunteers on this subject.

As far as supplements, that has been hashed and argued to death here at HW over the years, ends up being a very volatile subject. So this thread, I prefer it stay on topic of multi-vitamins.

david

 

Anyone tried MonaVie juice? It is loaded with a number of fruits and vegetables as well as a solid dose of the acai berry. It can super charge your antioxident level thus protecting against free radical damage. I've been drinking it since my diagnosis of pc in Dec 2012.

I am currently post robotic surgery 15 months pt3a gl 7-8 and still in the zero club. I highly recommend the juice, check it out.

what do you mean, oncas? that one went right over my head.

I wondered the same thing, Jim. Now I get you. To keep from saying something ugly, decided to let it go, had my suspicions too.

david

No problem, 142. Just glad this thread stayed civil.