About a third of Americans take a multivitamin regularly,
according to a 2016 Memorial Sloan Kettering study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
That might seem like a good thing—you can never get too much of those superstar vitamins and minerals, right?—but research tells a different story. "I used to take multivitamins and recommend them to my patients, but no more," says Dana Simpler, MD, an internal medicine specialist at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore. Here's what you need to know before you swallow your next pill.
That might seem like a good thing—you can never get too much of those superstar vitamins and minerals, right?—but research tells a different story. "I used to take multivitamins and recommend them to my patients, but no more," says Dana Simpler, MD, an internal medicine specialist at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore. Here's what you need to know before you swallow your next pill.
