• @wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one
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    18 months ago

    Generic versions are still a brand being advertised, you just arent the person advertised to.

    If you think a maximal 30% intake of a deficient nutrient is enough to prevent the problems youre taking supplements for, youre absolutely the target demographic for this scam.

    But you clearly are more interested in an internet gotcha than your own health, so by all means bud. I dont give a shit if youre sick, and if you dont either more power to ya

    • @SkyeStarfall
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      18 months ago

      Yeah, I’m sure you know more than my doctor.

      • @wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one
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        8 months ago

        Right, right, right. Thats why I cited my personal blood test, and not multiple public peer reviewed research papers.

        Anti science kooks are a riot man, you should take this show on tour

        Hey, kook, did it ever once occur to you that the reason youre “totally real and definitely happened” blood test comes up in the green is cause your diet is already sufficient? And your doc has you buying useless powder for no gain?

        No, couldnt be. Perish the thought.

          • @wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one
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            8 months ago

            First link is literally irrelevant

            Second link, under your chosen section, used child gummi supplements which I explicitly said are suspected to avoid the powder pill problem E:( also this is about starving child deficiency, the one situation where a 10% intake means you are going from ZERO to SOME, so unless you are a starving stunted child its hardly a relevant comparison.)

            Third study has a 3rd hand report of some correlation at multi vitamin use and lack of deficiency, the source of which did not show causation and did not even control for other dietary intake sources or socio-economic factors as an impact on diet

            Last link is just like the first, neither research nor relevant

            Were you hoping I would see blue links, get scared, and not click them?

            • @SkyeStarfall
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              Government sources, as well as the bloody WHO out of all sources, is irrelevant. Yeah, sure. I’ll just listen to a rando instead of an organization lead by the leading experts in the medical field as well as my doctor.

              Jesus Christ.

              I have noticed you also never bothered to link anything of your own.

              • @wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one
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                18 months ago

                You cited a private blood test, I assumed you wouldnt read anything I gave you. Also, Im not your mother, the issues with these pills is widely googleable.

                Government wiki paragraphs with the quality, accuracy, and peer review quality of webmd are 100% not sources, thats correct. You also shouldnt cite them in your science paper this term. Notice how the actual peer reviewed studies got proper responses? Shocker.

                • @SkyeStarfall
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                  18 months ago

                  Lmao, no sources of your own. Figures.

                  Easy to dish out but not to take, eh?

                  • @wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one
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                    18 months ago

                    Did you want me to go dig up those reports? I can do that for you when I get home, I just figured you got your blood test and you have repeatedly told me you do not value my input at all.

                    I wasnt about to waste the time reading papers to make sure I grab the right link for some numbnuts who wouldnt click em. Do you need me to do that for you?

                    Also looool, yeah bud its very easy to dish out a bunch of completely irrelevant links when you think a link is just a hollow gotcha that no one will read. Shame you couldnt find anything relevant, but if you need me to show you how to do that I am happy to.

                  • @wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one
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                    18 months ago

                    Hey, actually? I got super lucky with the first article I found.

                    https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/10/8/1096

                    So for starters, this is specifically for B12. Not intentional, as my point applies to all powder pills, but sure as shit topical.

                    Article details dietary B12, an equivalent intake pill B12 supplement, and a 4x intake pill B12 supplement.

                    The dietary? Restored the deficiency.

                    The 2 pills? Not only signifigantly less effective, but also almost equivalently so.

                    Thats insane. I assumed that quadrupaling the dose would improve the intake, its just a huge waste of money to eat 4-8 vitamin pills a day. But the study shows a quadruple dose is completely ineffective!

                    Also, (and I skimmed this specific bit from the results) it seems that the pill based intake was primarily in the liver. Now, the study correctly makes no causational link here, but that lightly implies that the liver is filtering out supplementals rather than letting it enter the dietary process. No clue if thats true, but a big possibility that I hope gets looked into further.

                    (Article also implies its not the powder pill form but rather the dietary type used in the pill. But it doesnt isolate powder sources of both versions of B12, so thats not conclusive.)

                    So, uh. Yeah. Big research article for you, the pill doesnt do shit, eating more of them also doesnt do shit, you need to be eating it in the food.