Prof Tim Spector
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first heard Apr 2026
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It's across the board.
This is this real misconception about this whole field.
Yes, so it doesn't help fractures, which is what I used to prescribe it all the time, giving calcium to menopausal women, for example.
It doesn't prevent fractures, and there is increasing evidence that it's associated with heart disease.
It hasn't been proven causally, but it's associated with increased risks of heart disease, possibly because it's increasing the hardness and thickness of your arteries.
So these are just several examples, whether it's vitamin C or it's calcium, of this mindset that our body just needs minute amounts of these things, finely tuned, and there's no reason to have 10, 100 times more of it.
There's never been shown that that is beneficial.
B12 works very well for vegans who struggle to get their B12 levels up.
We talk about generalities here.
There are obviously subgroups that do still benefit from it.
People think if I'm paying a lot of money for a vitamin or a mineral supplement, it's got to be good quality.
Well, that's not the case.
Most surveys show that sometimes they don't even contain the chemical they say they do.
Most of them are now made in China.
It's the biggest producer of these in vast factories.
And I think the majority are now made from genetic engineering of microbes.
They ferment them.
in these big tanks.
So people's view of what these are is very different to the reality.
And they don't know that when they're taking these, it actually contains the products they think it does, or that they aren't going to have other additives in there that might make sure they don't work or get absorbed.
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