Professor Luke O'Neill
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1,535 appearances
7 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 3 Sep
Professor Luke O'Neill’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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If you have a normal, balanced diet
Meat, veg, dairy products, the usual balanced diet that we all know about, they are full of vitamins and so therefore you have enough of them.
If you have a balanced diet and you take vitamins, you will wee them away.
They go straight to urine because the body knows we don't need them and it puts them into urine.
Uh some doctors historically have said taking lots of vitamins just gives rise to very expensive urine.
Because it all ends up in the urine.
You spend fifty euro on the thing and it ends up in your wee anyway.
So you don't need them if you have a healthy, balanced diet, very importantly.
Right now, where you might need them though is if you have certain deficiencies.
And some people, for various reasons, can't make enough of them.
Some people can't make vitamin B twelve.
They should be on them because if if they have a deficiency that can be tested, you take them then as a supplement.
Vitamin D, of course, we've all we all know about that.
Uh that's made
uh in the skin, so in the wintertime, if you're older,
You might take a vitamin D supplement to help.
Uh it turns out that's a bit controversial 'cause even a tiny bit of sunlight's enough.
But still there's some
Recommendation sometimes take vitamin D to keep your bones strong is one idea there.
Overall, though, it's very difficult to become deficient in a vitamin unless you're really starving and malnourished, of course.
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