Be the kind of person who takes dietary supplements

It is known that generally the persons who take dietary supplements are much healthier then persons who don’t. And it is known that in controlled trials, most supplements are actually neutral. Maybe the reasons why these people are healthier have nothing to do with pills: generally these subjects are persons that are more concerned about their health and have a higher financial and intellectual level. So, be as much as possible the kind of person that would take food supplements and save your money.

However, many nutritionists with whom I talked recommend multivitamins, especially as you get older. At least in theory,your diet should contain all macro-nutrients you need so that you could be healthy, especially if you eat real food and with many plants. After all, we have evolved to procure ourselves all the necessary elements for our body from the nature and if we were unable to do so, we couldn’t attain all of this.

But natural selection is not interested in our health or survival after the period in which we give birth to our descendants and, as we get older, the need for antioxidants increases and the capacity to assimilate them from food wanes. So, perhaps it would be better, and certainly you have nothing to lose, if you take multivitamins and minerals after the age of 50. And if you generally do not eat very much fish, it wouldn’t hurt if you would take a fish oil supplement.