[Mugi]

I am not a clinician but a toxicologist for a federal regulatory agency and most of what people are saying here are right because all multivitamins and other dietary supplements people take for gynecological remedies to strengthening memory are not regulated like prescription drugs. Last year, the supplement industry raked in almost $30Billions. Multivitamins are waste of your money if you eat a balanced diet, as you pee it out the most of these water soluble vitamins. In fact, as indicated by some here, in some instances, excess vitamins may be deleterious, for e.g., Vitamin E, especially among smokers was found to increase their lung cancer incidence. So, there is no point in taking mega doses of these vitamins unless your blood test showed deficiency in any vitamins, which is very very rare in this country. The only vitamin I recommend for Caucasians is Vitamin D because of the low melanocytes in their skin to make Vitamin D. Most people show low in this vitamin in their blood test no matter how much sun you get exposed to. All other vitamins, especially fat soluble vitamins, may carry some risk if you take too much when you really don't need it as these can accumulate in your body to cause some adverse effects.