I’ve been told that you just pass them through your digestive system like a seed by some and then that they are critical to your health by others.
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Like everything else you eat, multivitamins are processed by your digestive system.
There is some debate as to whether vitamins in their processed pill form can be absorbed *as well* as naturally occuring vitamins in food. It may be true that getting your essential micronutrients in a pill is less effective than getting it through normal dietary sources. But even if this is true, the pill still has some effect.
The most common misunderstanding about multivitamins is that most people don’t actually need them. If you have a serious vitamin deficiency, you’ll know it because you’re probably already sick. Minor deficiencies aren’t as easy to detect, but also aren’t as damaging.
Provided you eat a balanced and varied diet with lots of fruits and veggies, you don’t need supplements (unless you have some sort of medical issue that requires them, ofc).
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