Are your vitamin supplements doing any good? Are you wasting your money?
You might think vitamin supplements are a bit off topic what talking about heart health. But really they're not. Various vitamins have been studied in terms of their importance to heart health. Vitamin B6 has been associated with a reduction of heart attacks in women. Vitamin C has been known to help lower blood pressure. Vitamin D and vitamin E have also been mentioned when discussing heart health. How to know which and how much vitamin supplements to take We have the government's RDA (Recommended Daily Allowance). And we have other recommendations by various experts. Some of the government's RDA numbers are considered inaccurate by some experts. Most experts recommend that you should try get as much of your vitamin and mineral nutrients from food. And many recommend adding supplements to fill in the gaps where you may not get enough of these nutrients from food. I've always thought it makes sense to take vitamin supplements in case I don't get what I need...