Professor Luke O'Neill

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1,535 appearances 7 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 3 Sep

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Show Me the Science with Luke O'Neill · The Science of Vitamins · 3 Sep 2026 podcast

And I'm doing it, and I guess Mary might have spotted this

Big report has come out on them and there are some benefits, let's say that.

Especially multivitamins.

The topic actually the recent issue is should you take multivitamins and you can buy big tubs

Full of multivitamins, do they work?

And as I'll explain, there is some examples where they're beneficial.

But now, as we are scientists, let's describe them and what they do.

Vitamin A, let's begin with that one.

They began to discover them and gave them letters.

So vitamin A was the first one.

That's very important for vision.

Low vitamin A and your eyes don't work properly, and that was discovered.

Vitamin A is also very important for your immune system, so you've got to make sure you're top

Up your vitamin A, it has various activities on immune cells.

Then there's the B group.

Now they're very complicated.

There are loads of B group vitamins.

There's B6, there's B12.

They do slightly different things, and I'm not going to go through them one by one, otherwise, you'll be bored.

But overall, in general, B group vitamins are essential for enzymes to help you handle nutrients.

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