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Why Do People Take Vitamins?
Written by: Karl LorenArticle Overview: There are three different reasons why someone would take vitamins. First, you might take them because your mother told you to! Really, that's a very legitimate reason, and probably accounts for a large percentage of the actual reasons people take vitamins.
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Why Do People Take Vitamins?
There are three
different reasons why someone would take vitamins. First, you might take them
because your mother told you to!
Really, that's a
very legitimate reason, and probably accounts for a large percentage of the
actual reasons people take vitamins.
Of course, I
don't mean your mother, literally, but rather someone who you respect and whose
advice and suggestions you often follow. Each of us has a variety of
"opinion leaders" for parts of our life. You know that if Joe recommends
a restaurant, it's a good one, but if Sally recommends one, you'll ignore it.
So, there are
people who you have come to believe and trust -- who tell you about health
things. You'll find that, even if the other two reasons are more important for
you, that there are SOME vitamins you take because someone told you that it was
a good idea.
This opinion
leader reason is particularly important for some vitamins where the expected
result is not immediate. You want your opinion leader to seem honest and not
advising you solely out of commercial interests, yet you know that commercially
oriented people are often very well informed.
So, however you
do it, you have probably already defined a small group of people whose opinions
you listen to when it comes to vitamins. Some of them are close personal
friends, others are authors whose books you've been impressed with -- or
perhaps someone you heard on the radio or TV.
The second reason
is that when you take some vitamin you feel distinctly better.
You might think
that this should be the only reason, but our surveys show that many people
don't feel much difference when they take many vitamins.
Consider calcium,
for instance. Most people who take an ordinary calcium formula are not likely
to notice any physical change.
But, there are
many vitamins which DO create some immediate effect which you can feel -- and
judge to be beneficial.
I recall one my
first experiences with the vitamin world. I was interested in health, but
didn't have any strong interest in vitamins. I heard a guy talking, listened
carefully because it was interesting, and came away from that event convinced
that I probably had parasites in my intestine.
Now only was I
convinced I probably had lots of them, but I understood that if I took this certain
combination of herb I would, definitely, have loose stools and that I could
then look into the toilet and see those wiggling worms!
Well, just that
promise of be sure about a result was enough for me. I got the herbs, and sure
enough they sure did cause loose stool. And, I sure did get down on my knees
and peer into the toilet. I didn't find any parasites, or wiggling things. But,
I was so impressed by the utter predictability about the herbs that I continue
to "cleanse my gut" with those herbs.
The EFFECT was
predicted and the EFFECT happened -- QUICK.
If the effect is
predicted to happen in two years, and, if there is no effect until two years, no
one is likely to try or buy such a substance. The effect must also be something
that is easy to measure and measure NOW!
Many people will
claim they feel different but find it hard to explain how. Most people really
value an "increase in energy," as something they would like to get
from vitamins.
So, two reasons,
so far: You can take vitamins because someone you believe and trust tells you
that you should.
Or, you can take
vitamins because they really make you feel something -- usually good!
NOW!
Now, there is
only one more reason I find mentioned often enough to count.
That's where you
do the research, or read the book about something, and you understand it so
well that you know you want to take it, even if no one tells you to, and even
if you don't notice any change in how you feel.
I know that I had
heard, hundreds of times that Enzyme CoQ10 was a very useful substance to take.
In other words, lots of my opinion leaders had told me I should take it.
I took some, but
never felt any change, so I quit.
Then, one day, I
listened to a tape about CoQ10 and I was astounded. I said to myself,
"I'll never be without CoQ10 again!" It's funny that I don't even
remember the technical data about this substance, other than it helps the heart
muscle work better during times of stress, but I do recall being certain that I
SHOULD take it.
So, when you
study up on some product, and read good research, based on sources you respect,
you can use that reason to take a vitamin.
For instance, in
these pages you'll see references to the amino acid, cysteine at OralChelation.com . You probably know very little about this substance. But, I'll bet that if you
read about it, thoroughly, you'd decide that it would be a very good item to
include among your vitamins.
So, there you
have it. You take a vitamin for any one, or more, of three reasons:
You mother told
you to.
You feel better
when you do.
You've studied
the data about the stuff and you are convinced it's good.
Compare these,
for instance, with why you take a drug.
Generally most
people don't feel better when they take drugs, and certainly your mother is
hardly ever an opinion leader for you about drugs. Finally, you can hardly ever
understand the scientific literature that explains how some drug works.
So, you are left
with that one solitary reason -- the doctor tells you to take it.
You trust the doctor!
I don't think
that's very wise, but notice that of the three reasons you might take vitamins,
only one of them usually applies to medical drugs. And, consider that there are
a lot more people explaining how some vitamin works than anybody ever tries to
explain HOW some drug works.
So, we have these
three reasons for taking vitamins, and you don't probably have comparable
reasons for taking medical drugs.
So, should you
put THAT much faith in a doctor?
Most of the
people who would take the type of mega-doses of vitamins would tell you that
they don't trust doctors and try to avoid them as much as possible.
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About the Author: Karl Loren RSS for Karl's articles - Visit Karl's website Karl Loren is a researcher, writer and developer of unique vitamin formulations that remove heavy metals from the body. His products can be found at: http://www.oralchelation.com/store . You can write to Karl at: http://www.oralchelation.com/writetokarl.htm . Other articles and e-books by Karl can be found in his library: www.karllorenlibrary.com Click here to visit Karl's website Why Do People Take Vitamins What Are These Things We Call Free Radicals Are They Free and Do We Want Them Water Everywhere Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Natural Pain Relief Whats Wrong With Doctors |
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