How do Vitamins prevent deseases?
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Vitamins do not prevent disease. All the multivitamins and supplements you see being advertised are just products to waste your money on and to make others money. In 99.9% of the cases, the vitamin/ supplement you take will most likely go in through your mouth and then be pooped out without any difference being made to your body.
I’m afraid that getting better nails or stronger bones is not as easy as taking a pill twice a day.
The only type of disease that vitamins are good for treating is vitamin deficiency and **your doctor should be prescribing these** in this case, not you. A lot of people love to self-diagnose like “oh my bones hurt so I’ll take this calcium and vitamin D supplement”. Go talk to your doctor about it. That’s why he/ she is there. And if they suggest a blood test trust me that the 20 seconds you feel pain for are way less painful than the metaphorical heart attack you will have when seeing money leaving your bank account just so you can poop out a pill you ate for no reason.
That said, all of the vitamins you need can and should be obtained from your diet. Just have a balanced diet and don’t survive solely on Pot Noodle for a year (seriously, there are cases of people eating only Pot Noodle for months and getting severe vitamin C deficiency, also known as scurvy).
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