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Speaker 1: Now, apparently, multi vitamins are a bit of a rut

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Speaker 1: so according to a new study out of the US.

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Speaker 1: The study looked at about four hundred thousand generally healthy

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Speaker 1: Americans over twenty years found that multi vitamins did not

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Speaker 1: help them live any longer, and actually daily multi vitamin

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Speaker 1: usage was associated with a four percent higher risk of mortality.

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Speaker 1: NICKI Heart is a nutritionist in with US.

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Speaker 2: Now, Hey, Nikki, Hey, Heather, how are you doing.

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Speaker 1: I'm good? Thank you. Do you take them?

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Speaker 2: No? Why not at all? Well, I just think it's

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Speaker 2: like hope in a jar, and I think that's what

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Speaker 2: people are using it for. They think it's magic, and

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Speaker 2: I think it can. I think it's expensive, Heather. You know,

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Speaker 2: in this time and age where food is critical to

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Speaker 2: everybody's health and well being, I wouldn't spend my money

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Speaker 2: on a vitamin. I just wouldn't.

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Speaker 1: Do You really believe, though, that people are more likely

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Speaker 1: to die, which is the sort of suggestion from this

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Speaker 1: because they take multivitamins.

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Speaker 2: I think what's actually happening is that if you have

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Speaker 2: a condition, you think that by taking a multi vitamin

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Speaker 2: it's going to make things better. Perhaps you are taking

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Speaker 2: a multi vitamin and you are already unwell to maybe

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Speaker 2: heart of these diabets.

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Speaker 1: Is it also is it also possible that you start

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Speaker 1: taking multi vitamins and thinking you don't need to eat

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Speaker 1: your spinach, and then as a result, you die earlier.

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Speaker 2: And you know, I think that's half the problem is

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Speaker 2: that we talk in macro and micro nutrients, but I

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Speaker 2: don't think we realize or we need to explain to

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Speaker 2: people that food is a matrix. For example, when we

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Speaker 2: think of bread, we only think of carbohydrate, but actually

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Speaker 2: there's protein there, there's vitamin B, vitamins. You know, there's

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Speaker 2: lots of things in it. We've got to actually stop

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Speaker 2: breaking it down into micros and macros and actually talk

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Speaker 2: about food being the best option because there's things in

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Speaker 2: it that are more than just a multi vitamin.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So I could throw my multi vitamins away and

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Speaker 1: just keep eating all my food. As long as I'm

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Speaker 1: eating a healthy diet, I'll be fine.

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Speaker 2: Well, unless you actually have a diagnosed efficiency. So there's

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Speaker 2: a couple of things where I think we need to

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Speaker 2: be cautious. Like if you are a menstruating female, well

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Speaker 2: and you are playing a lot of sport and you

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Speaker 2: don't need a lot of red meat. If you have

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Speaker 2: a blood test and you figure that you're deficient, then yes,

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Speaker 2: an iron supplement prescribed is important. But just taking vitamins

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Speaker 2: willy nilly, is actually not that great. In fact, we

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Speaker 2: know that if you take large amounts of zinc it

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Speaker 2: can cause a copper deficiency. So just taking things is

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Speaker 2: actually not a great way to do it unless you

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Speaker 2: have a diagnose deficiency.

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Speaker 1: Okay, would you, Nikki, would you take a little bit

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Speaker 1: of vitamin see through the winter, just to keep it

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Speaker 1: up a little bit.

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Speaker 2: I'd rather eat a Kiwi fruit, just.

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Speaker 1: One Kiwi fruit today and you're happy ass Well.

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Speaker 2: We know there was a study done during COVID and

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Speaker 2: it was due to lockdown and children not coping very well,

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Speaker 2: and we found that two Kiwi fruit today not only

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Speaker 2: improved their sleep, but improved their general health and their

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Speaker 2: mental health and their well being.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to shove it in their face when I

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Speaker 1: get home.

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Speaker 2: I would, yeah, exactly. Just you know what, it's not

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Speaker 2: that hard. We just I think we spend our money

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Speaker 2: on vitamins when in fact, actually I would rather you

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Speaker 2: save that money and buy foot.

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Speaker 1: Good from you, Nikki. Thank you very much Nikki Heart Nutritionist.

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