It’s just dawned on me that after a life of being told to include enough vitamins in my diet that I haven’t a scooby what vitamins actually do. Can someone please why its important to have enough vitamins?
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The other responses do a good job of directly answering your question, but I’ll also add this: For the average person with no health conditions, supplementing with vitamins (e.g. gummy vitamins, vitamin water, etc) has zero known benefit. All it will do is make your urine more expensive as you pee out those costly supplements.
Notable exceptions include women who are or may get pregnant (need folic acid), babies in areas with inadequate sun exposure (need vitamin D), and older people at risk of osteoporosis (need calcium and vitamin D).
More info:
[https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/05/180528171511.htm](https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/05/180528171511.htm)
[https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/is-there-really-any-benefit-to-multivitamins](https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/is-there-really-any-benefit-to-multivitamins)
(Edited to add links)
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