Does it make sense to take multivitamins? – podcast

Multivitamins are cheap, convenient, and offer a bit of peace of mind when our diets aren’t as healthy as we’d like. But a recent study of nearly 400,000 people over a 20-year period found that they didn’t help users live longer, and in fact appeared to leave them with a 4 percent higher risk of dying. Ian Sample joins JoAnn Manson, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, to find out what the evidence tells us about the overall health benefits of multivitamins, and how consumers can navigate this large and sometimes confusing market.

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