Norman Swan
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first heard Jul 2005
last heard 6d ago
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Health Report · Why you should speed up your steps, even just in short bursts. · 11 Sep 2026
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Finally in the news, there has a very
It is it is actually a tragic story.
And we are referring to the very tragic death of Connor Dean in 2024.
And Connor was a six-year-old child who had a history of Down syndrome who died during a procedure which required a general anesthetic.
And
There is a quite a lot to this story, but essentially Connor was under the care of a pediatrician.
Connor had a very restricted diet and some suspected and confirmed nutritional deficiencies and the pediatrician and dietitian together had suggested certain supplements, including a multivitamin.
Yes, and so if you look at the the Queensland Coroner's report, there's quite a bit of detail in this, but the multivitamin that the the parents had used in the kind of preceding time
didn't contain vitamin C.
And the pediatrician who was looking after Connor says that, you know, they felt it was misleading that this product which was labelled as a multivitamin was lacking essential nutrients and vitamins like vitamin C, the manufacturer of this particular multivitamin, and we don't know the name of the brand, it's not included in the coroner's report.
have, as you can imagine, come out and defended themselves and said that, you know, multivitamin products don't necessarily contain all the essential vitamins.
Yes, a vitamin C deficiency.
Yes.
Well, that it played a factor, yes.
The coroner has deduced that it played a significant role in Connor's death, and the pediatrician in who's involved in the coroner's report says that
If Connor had been taking vitamin C and wasn't so deficient, they believed that the outcome could have potentially been different.
And most people don't need a multivitamin.
I mean, you know, this is a different case where someone has a restricted diet and nutritional deficiencies.
But I think the other takeaways, and we say this all the time, Norman, I get asked this so often, what do you and Norman take?
In terms of supplements.
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