Vitamins & Minerals

Micronutrient supplements help specific groups and waste money for many others. We focus on deficiency risk, testing that changes a decision, dose ranges with a safety margin, and the extra-skeletal claims that have not held up.

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Vitamins & Minerals

Vitamin D: who should test, who should supplement, and who can wait

Deficiency is real in defined groups. Routine high-dose supplementation for everyone is not a public-health victory. Extra-skeletal promises have mostly failed large trials.

August 12, 202611 min read