Warning on Multivitamins! Fatal prostate cancer link found

[Silverbeam]

Moral of the story: DON'T overdose on your vitamins. Taking more than you need has no added benefit: the water soluble ones get pissed out, and the fat soluble ones stay in your body and possibly cause you harm. It's a waste of money to take more than the recommended dose, and can hurt you in more ways than one. You should get most of your vitamins from what you eat anyways.

Cliff notes: Study finds link with prostate cancer growth and over use of vitamins. Multi-vitamin users were twice as likely to die from prostate cancer. Vitamins don't increase your risk of getting it, but help promote tumor growth= death.

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Study: Vitamins Linked to Prostate Cancer

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

AP

There's more worrisome news about vitamins: Taking too many may increase men's risk of dying from prostate cancer.

The study, being published Wednesday, doesn't settle the issue. But it is the biggest yet to suggest high-dose multivitamins may harm the prostate, and the latest chapter in the confusing quest to tell whether taking various vitamins really helps a variety of conditions -- or is a waste of money, or worse.

Government scientists turned to a study tracking the diet and health of almost 300,000 men. About a third reported taking a daily multivitamin, and 5 percent were heavy users, swallowing the pills more than seven times a week.

Within five years of the study's start, 10,241 men had been diagnosed with prostate cancer. Some 1,476 had advanced cancer; 179 died.

Heavy multivitamin users were almost twice as likely to get fatal prostate cancer as men who never took the pills, concludes the study in Wednesday's Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

Here's the twist: Overall, the researchers found no link between multivitamin use and early-stage prostate cancer.

The researchers speculate that perhaps high-dose vitamins had little effect until a tumor appeared, and then could spur its growth.

While similar but smaller studies have suggested a link, too, more rigorous research is needed, caution the National Cancer Institute scientists. This newest study involves men who voluntarily took vitamins, and those most at risk -- perhaps because they had a family history of the disease -- may have been more likely to take the pills in hopes of avoiding their fate.

Still, "the findings lend further credence to the possibility of harm associated with increased use of supplements," Dr. Christian Gluud of Copenhagen University Hospital and Dr. Goran Bjelakovic of Serbia's University of Nis wrote in an accompanying editorial.

[Sportsmedjosh]

I was waiting for you to post this.

[Soup Nazi]

Fuck, I take double the recommended dose to cancel out oxidation from heavy training.

[Silverbeam]

Originally Posted by Soup Nazi

Fuck, I take double the recommended dose to cancel out oxidation from heavy training.

it was nice knowing you :wave

[Soup Nazi]

Originally Posted by Silverbeam

it was nice knowing you :wave

haha. It will take more than prostate cancer to kill me, sorry.

[Sportsmedjosh]

The two types of vitamins are classified by the materials in which they will dissolve. Fat-soluble vitamins; vitamins A, D, E and K dissolve in fat before they are absorbed in the blood stream to carry out their functions. Excesses of these vitamins are stored in the liver. Because they are stored, they are not needed every day in the diet.

Water-soluble vitamins dissolve in water and are not stored; they are eliminated in urine. We need a continuous supply of them in our diets. The water-soluble vitamins are the B-complex group and vitamin C.

Water-soluble vitamins are easily destroyed or washed out during food storage or preparation. Proper storage and preparation of food can minimize vitamin loss. To reduce vitamin loss, refrigerate fresh produce, keep milk and grains away from strong light, and use the cooking water from vegetables to prepare soups.

[Vitruvian]

Give em a month....... there'll be a conflicting study............

[cabezon]

so out of 300K men over five years, 100K took a multivitamin and 179 died. Twice as likely to die? doesnt sound reasonable. only 36 out of 300K die each year of prostate cancer, and they are saying that it would have been only 18 if it weren't for the vitamins. Did you know that going outside for daily walks makes you 7 times more likely to be hit by a car than if you only walked once a week? seven times people, seven times.