Most vitamins are useless — at least, they’re at best harmless (unless overdosed, of course) — because most of it is just passed through urine. It must be true because I read that in an encyclopedia (my Junior Readers can ask their grandparents to explain how the Internet was once all contained on paper, in leather-bound books — also ask for an explanation of “books”).
Where was I? Oh yeah, vitamins.
Turns out that some are actually quite useful, at least until next week, when another group of “scientists” will tell us that Vitamin D gives us congenial herpes or something.
As you can probably guess from the above, I don’t set much store by vitamins; the only one I do take religiously is the aforesaid Vitamin D, because I don’t go out into the sunshine a lot (I can get sunburned walking to the mailbox, hello Texas), and my doctor said I should or else Bad Things would most certainly happen to me. In fact, when I go for my annual checkup, it’s the one thing he’s most careful to ask me about. “Still taking that Vitamin D 1000u each day? Good. Keep doing that.”
Turns out that’s a Good Thing, for all the reasons explained in this little piece (via Insty once more; thankee, Squire).
Of course, there’s a catch. No, not the herpes thing, I just made that up. Turns out that for my age, a daily 800-1000u is just the ticket; but too much can make the telemores too long, which is a Bad Thing.
No, I don’t have the foggiest either; you’ll just have to read it all for yourself.
