Craig_Heldreth comments on Quantified Health Prize results announced - Less Wrong

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Comment author: jimrandomh 18 February 2012 03:29:00AM *  8 points [-]

Thanks for this valuable research! I read Kevin and Yvain's reports with my multivitamin's label at hand. From Yvain's report:

Because of the high potential for manganese toxicity, and continuining uncertainty over possible cover toxicity of relatively low manganese levels, manganese supplementation is probably a bad idea.

From the label:

Manganese 4mg 200%

Well, that's going straight in the trash and getting replaced with something different. Wtf?

Comment author: Craig_Heldreth 19 February 2012 03:47:07PM 9 points [-]

Here's what it says on the label of mine:

Manganese 2.3 Mg 115%

Anybody want to plug a one pill supplement a middle class American could find easy?

Comment author: Yvain 24 February 2012 01:32:59AM *  5 points [-]

Have you considered not taking anything? Most studies show multivitamins have somewhere between no effect and a slight negative effect except in groups with special nutritional issues. It might be possible to optimize further with the right combination (if the lack of effect from multivitamins is because they include both beneficial and harmful chemicals with a net zero effect) but I don't really think we know enough to do that right now.

Comment author: Jonathan_Graehl 24 February 2012 01:05:08AM 0 points [-]

Every multivitamin I've had is at least 2mg Manganese/pill. Cut the pill in half and it's half as bad for you?

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