• numberfour002@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Store bought multivitamins aren’t even guaranteed to rule it out. For a myriad of different reasons, you can still have deficiencies even if you take a multivitamin. So, maybe it’s worth a try, but if it doesn’t work, that doesn’t mean there couldn’t still be a deficiency.

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        5 months ago

        Recently did some research on what the treatment would be for a particular deficiency.

        Found that general-purpose multivitamins provide about 0.5% of the therapeutic amount.

        So yeah, there can be a massive difference between the little bit of help a multivitamin can give vs. what you really need for a specific condition.