Do those One-A-Day vitamins actually do anything?

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Kurt_Russel
08/12/2025
05:48 PM
#1
Like, does it help me lose weight, sleep better, stimulate my mind?
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orcus_snake
08/12/2025
05:52 PM
#2
its just nutrients bro
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MC_BatCommander
08/12/2025
05:52 PM
#3
From everything I've seen and read, they're completely useless to the average person and you just piss away (literally) most of the vitamins taken in supplement form. They're only good for people who need them due to some deficiency or other health issue.

Having a balanced diet does far more for your health while the supplements don't really do anything at all.
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littlebro07
08/12/2025
05:55 PM
#4
Purely anecdotal experience here but I used to get sick like every other month for a couple weeks straight. Like a bad cold each time.

Starting taking daily multivitamins and starting feeling sick one day. The next day I was fine.

Havent been sick since other than getting Covid a couple years ago
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pojr
08/12/2025
05:58 PM
#5
I use these Costco-brand multivitamins. I'm not sure if it does anything, but it's certainly doesn't hurt.
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Unsuprised_Pika
08/12/2025
06:00 PM
#6
No, probably not much if at all and probably not much if at all.

Supplements are of...questionable worth outside of a few that have some decent data behind them(Vitamin D for example is generally a good supplement to take during winter in a country that gets cold winters as getting it from diet alone is challenging. Sunlight is the most effectvie method but that is hard when its cloudy and well below freezing.)

Eating a healthy diet is more effective and probably cheaper then taking a trove of vitamins. Maybe find a couple that address gaps hard to fill otherwise for you as its better then nothing in some cases
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CobraGT
08/12/2025
06:02 PM
#7
I take vitamins made from veggies and fruit. They are not expensive and they do not hurt.

Have them around and take when you remember them.
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Blastia
08/12/2025
06:03 PM
#8
wait. you're telling me my daily vitamin c tablet does nothing?!
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Robot2600
08/12/2025
06:08 PM
#9
Blastia posted...
wait. you're telling me my daily vitamin c tablet does nothing?!

yes that does nothing. You are 100% correct to think about vitamin c, however, but you need it from natural sources. Almost everything has Vitamin C in it. Some notable foods high in Vitamin C; any kind of healthy green vegetable like peas, greenbeans, broccoli, fruit, potatoes , beans, and non-processed meat. people just think of orange juice but there are a lot of foods.

potatoes have a ton of them, notably. like, french fries have vitamin c in them.

you need about 9 grams of vitamin c a day , and your body doesn't produce it at all.

edit: bold is the kicker. the supplement is like...idk 1g for a big one? you aren't gonna absorb all of it anyway so like maybe you absorb a tenth of a gram or whatever... it's just not a big amount. just eat some normal food.
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Unsuprised_Pika
08/12/2025
06:12 PM
#10
Blastia posted...
wait. you're telling me my daily vitamin c tablet does nothing?!

Yes. Fruits and veggies are loaded with it and some cereals are fortified with it too.

Even a Mcdonalds every meal every day person will likely get enough because potatoes have a good amount.

I think an American would have to actively TRY to not get enough vitamin C if they aren't genuinely getting too few calories or have an extremely restricted diet like only eats chicken nuggets and nothing else.
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UnsteadyOwl
08/12/2025
06:16 PM
#11
Here's an article on it:
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/is-there-really-any-benefit-to-multivitamins

The tl;dr is for certain people in certain circumstances vitamin supplements can be useful but for the vast majority of people they have no proven benefit. As much as we might like the idea that being healthy is as easy as taking a pill it doesn't work that way.
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Pikachuchupika
08/12/2025
06:18 PM
#12
What about those omega-3 vitamins?
thronedfire2
08/12/2025
06:31 PM
#13
they do help if you actually have a vitamin deficiency. But other supplements are better, and actual food is even better than that.
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Kurt_Russel
08/12/2025
07:48 PM
#14
What about fish oil? It doesnt lubricate joints?
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kirbymuncher
08/12/2025
08:41 PM
#15
Gonna go against the grain here and say there's no reason not to

1) It's easy to find studies stating the exact opposite, that they actually do help with various things. And honestly I feel like nutritional science tends to flub a lot of things anyway so there's no guarantee any of those studies are even that reliable

2) There isn't really much of a downside, it's easy to do and fairly cheap (at least where I live)

3) If you are lacking in something from your diet and not really aware of it, you can potentially put at least something toward helping this out even if you don't know exactly what it is. Most people are not really eating a fully balanced diet and it's easy to be lacking in something without even realizing

That said you obviously can't just live off, like... potato chips and a jar of multivitamins

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monkmith
08/12/2025
08:55 PM
#16
they are a way for you to give money to a glorified holistic medicine company for nothing.

unless your diet is truly crap you dont need multivitamins.
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SecretBase
08/12/2025
09:01 PM
#17
The general consensus is that standard vitamins basically do nothing for people who already have a healthy daily intake of nutrients, but that a lot of people actually don't and generally are better off at least taking the vitamins to compensate.

But obviously they're not gonna give you superpowers, they're just doing patchwork over subpar eating habits.
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