***** I come from New England and in the fall and winter months we have constantly cloudy weather so it's pretty common place for people in the area to be Vitamin D deficient.
+Snakebite105 He says "If your eating a regular diet you should be fine" as if most peoples diets aren't comprised of mostly biscut-like foods, like that pirate....Most people have deficiencies so vitamin rich foods are needed. The body only absorbs about 12% of synthetic vitamins TOPS! THAT'S what the focus should be here. I think this show might just be meant to school us on trivial shit and fool us on IMPORTANT ones....just a thought though lol
Snakebite105 You mean people *say* they are deficient, or they are diagnosed as such by a medical physician? If you eat varied food, you'll be fine. Vitamin D deficiency is a risk if you're old, or if you have a bowel disorder.
+Smaakjeks Kjeks Or if you live somewhere shitty. I know a number of people who were diagnosed as vitamin D deficient after moving to Scotland, due to the lack of sun. But then vitamin D deficiency ain't even too bad.
@@Serve24 you do now vitamins are way cheaper option right? Groceries in NYC cost $70+ a week. For reference, a head of broccoli cost $7. A bottle of vitamin that last one year cost only $30
@@Serve24 it's NYC, everything is expensive and you get very little of it. That's why I said vitamins are a good supplements if you are a poor college student. Once I get a job, I could care less as NYC has some of the highest paying jobs in the world. But until then, I'm dirt poor
This video is 100% irresponsible. Vitamins are not magic.... but they are needed for things like deficiencies, and other disorders. Vitamins also serve as a great way for preventative care, but he is right you shouldn't mega dose... However this video makes it sound like no matter what life style you live you never need vitamins... XD
Mickey Moose well yes, but the message it was conveying is if you eat a fairly nutritious diet and aren’t prescribed them then you don’t need the supplements
He’s talking about normal people and people who don’t have such disorders, he simply said that if you eat normally then from that alone you usually get the amount of vitamins you need and that overdosing on them is not a great idea, he never said that if your doctor prescribes it or if you have a vitamin deficiency then just die, he simply aimed it at the majority who don’t have such problems and just take vitamins because they think it’s healthy. It’s pretty much just misunderstood, though I can forgive people for misunderstanding since the point wasn’t completely clear and could be represented better
Except deficiencies ARE common, especially vitamin D deficiencies in areas that don't have as much sun. So people living in these states aren't as "normal" as people who live in sunnier climates?
Why is this even an issue? Everyone where I live(Denmark) knows that vitamins are basically just there to supplement any deficiencies(most often in winter, when we don't get a lot of sun).
Same in England, I take vitamins (vitamin D mainly, plus some others) during the winter, and occasionally I take extra supplements if my doctor says I need to, also if I can't eat enough fruits.
+Amanda Vadon True, if your diet is heavily lacking a nutrient then a supplement to bring it up to normal levels is a good idea. But as stated in the video, that's a rather extreme case these days. Overloading on vitamins can be a very bad thing though, as whatever your body doesn't need needs to be metabolized and filtered out by the liver and having to continually do so puts enormous strain on it. If you think you've got a vitamin deficiency due to poor diet, chance your diet a bit, if you think you have a vitamin deficiency due to something else like an illness or other medical reason, go see a doctor.
As a nutritional science major this video made me feel so many different things 😅 I can guarantee you that taking vitamins/minerals does not equate to being healthy in general. But for some people, mostly the the elderly and frequently females in general, their bodies can’t absorb vitamins as effectively as they would hope. For the average American, vitamin supplements are NOT necessary. For some, they can be beneficial. For others, they’re basically a godsend. But there are upper limits to how much you should consume through your diet and supplements, and consumption above that amount puts you at high risk for suffering the effects of toxicity for that particular vitamin/mineral. That applies to everybody. I agree that, for example, vitamin C can definitely not cure the common cold. But it’s irresponsible to portray all vitamins in such a negative light. That being said, I still love these videos and the lies & truths they expose 😊 I appreciate your work, keep it up!
That's not really the case, a lot of people have vitamin deficiency, it's just not so severe as to be a primary complaint when coming in to see the doctor. There has yet to be a diet devised that will get you all of the necessary vitamins while keeping to contemporary caloric requirements. A diet that would get you all the necessary vitamins, would make you obese as foods lack the necessary nutrient density to make it work.
A doctor (neurosurgeon) told me the body often times can't process vitamin pills, so they're essentially useless. Apparently eating fruit is way more effective even if you have deficiencies.
The title is misleading, it should say "The Weird Reason We Think Vitamin SUPPLEMENTS Are Good For Us . . . ". Vitamins ARE obviously good for you and even (as the video states) are essential for life, which is the definition of a vitamin.
And even supplements are useful in a lot of cases. Taking vitamin D supplements during winter is typically a good idea. Taking vitamin B12 is essential if you don't eat animal products. And taking other vitamins is probably useful for a lot of people as well, considering how common it is to have a horribly one-sided diet.
@@lenasandner4721 Exactly. Especially if you have a dark skin color and live way up north. Here in Finland in the winter we get less than 3 hours of sunlight at the minimum point. Those whose ethnic backgrounds are from northern areas have a lighter skin that is capable of producing more vitamin D for less sunlight, but those whose ethnic backgrounds are from the equator for example and have a darker skin color produce next to none vitamin D at all during that short period of time so they literally have to take supplements to get any. It being cold in the wintertime lessens that amount even further because people wear more clothing and the little sunlight doesn't even get to your skin in the first place.
Vitamins is short for Vital Amines as in amino acids that are essential for living. Over time the definition of a vitamin was somewhat expanded to include things which were other types of molecules, but by definition they are things that the body either cannot produce on its own or cannot produce in sufficient quantity on its own without supplementation. The main issue is when people take excessive amounts of vitamins hoping for additional benefit. With the exception of fat soluble vitamins like A, D, E and K, the rest are mostly passed out of the body along with the urine. They may still have some harmful effects anyways, but it's moderated by the fact that it dissolves in water and exits via urine.
@@lenasandner4721 A one sided diet makes no sense unless the person lives off PIZZA Daily for an entire life time could cause Problems indeed. Donuts with water would be more one sided but retards get treated.
+Karin KaPOW No one should even consider taking vitamin pills unless they have a specific health problem and are prescripted by a doctor. Who the hell are those people ?
Oh, and i also have a health problem with vitamin d12, that i cant receive it from sunlight. Probably because i grew in a cold, cloudy enviroment. Like N.Europe.
@@lolmanmagee2785 A reference to Pitch meetings. Nice.... But some of the things that are being said in the comments... Are actually true. If you have an unhealthy or uneven diet, vitamin supplements are a necessity, because your body currently doesn't have what it should in vitamins.
@@THE_AceOfSarcasm not saiyan its incorrect due to the fact they got it from google, google is useful for loadsa things ; on a side note im surprised but happy someone got the pitch meetings reference
@@lolmanmagee2785 Oh, I don't think all of them got it from Google. I know I didn't. I personally don't eat much, and it didn't take a Google search to connect the dots, and realise that I should take vitamin supplements because if I don't eat enough, I'm not going to get the vitamins I need.
I just saw, a case of Vitamin A overdose about two months ago. This woman not only consumed the pills on a daily basis 2 or 3 times a day, but also she had a friend make her a list of each food rich in VitA and made that her ONLY diet, barely any vegetables. She came in with pleural edema, fotosensitivity and a horrible rash that caused a necrosis around her lips and on the tip of her nose (wich almost had to be removed). She is almost blind, and when she was informed of the cause she claimed she was gonna sue the hospital "because they were trying to replace vitamins in the world with vaccines, and make everyone retarded". Anyway, nice holidays to all!!!
+Fede Did She must not have included any vitamin D with it. Even high doses of A around a million IU for several days won't become toxic if as little as 1000 IU of D3 is taken with it.
+WaterspoutsOfTheDeep thats what so rare about it! She was only 46 y/o, i was also thinking se could be alcoholic since she denied drinking way to strongly and had some signs of B12 and B6 deficit... is amazing how far some cases can go :(
And all because of that fraudulent research paper that stated that the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine causes autism. Fuck the paper and fuck the arsehats who produced it.
AJ P Yeah, everyone has cancer cells inside them, no matter what, and they'll start replicating eventually. But if you died and the cells still haven't started replicating, you're good then.
+xXRockXLobsterXx Let's also be fair, this dummy Adam is just a tool for the big pharma. Vitamins are useless. Brooohaaahhhaaahhhaaa. Bad vitamins that big pharma produces are useless for sure. But well made real vitamins are critical since the food you eat today has about a third of the vitamins that they had 50 years ago thx to corporate farming techniques.
As a board certified physician (M.D.), I'm concerned that this misleading viral video will make the public think vitamins are never necessary. Because of socio-economic factors (i.e., financial access to fresh vegetables and fruit), Americans may not meet their nutritional requirements with their diet alone and may in certain instances need supplementation for healthy function: for example, prenatal vitamins (folic acid and iron) during pregnancy, vitamin D and calcium in patients with osteopenia. Hope people watching this video will talk to their physician first before believing CollegeHumor.
Well said! Not only are socio-economics a factor, but lack of good info as well! Rich people can be taken in by fad diets that aren't good for them just as well as anyone, and veggies and fruits can be mishandled, or labeled "fresh" even when it's been sitting around for a few days, losing its nutritional potency. As Jackie Chan's "uncle" says in his cartoon, "You must do research!!"
I agree that there are limitations to Vitamins in pill form but I appreciated that your comment covered the real need for prenatal vitamins by women. I wish there was a follow up video that covered this aspect and benefits of vitamins.
Chillycheese52 This guy is full of crap. Im a doctor. Vitamins are very important for immunity. Common cold is caused by virus and immunity can't beat the virus. Learn some basic science before saying shit on youtube or your own tv show. Immunity increases your durability and withstanding power to stop infections and help in curing the same. Yea there is a problem with high levels of vitamins called vitaminosis which is not even lethal but may cause u bowel problems. But u need to take like around 4000mg of vitamins per day to reach that level. This guy is full of shit without even doing his research he tells this. Taking prophylactic vitamins are very important for health in case of women who are menstruating, pregnant and for children without them it causes birthdefects in pregnant women and growth retardation in children which are included in the national immunisation schedule. If it was fake why would WHO would put vitamins in NIS. This guy is full of bullcrap doing everything for the like and follow. He conveniently talks only of flu. This guy is fake and manipulates the facts.
Sarat Anandh I think you misunderstand Adam's argument, although I will note that he does not put it across very clearly. His is arguing against "mega supplement pills" for vitamins, deeming them over the top. I don't believe he is denouncing Vitamins, although it may seem like it, but rather taking a jab at the lengths people go to ensure they are all stocked up on Vitamins (ie spending 60 dollars for 3 weeks worth of Vitamin C Pills when you can spend less for the same effect by eating fruits)
+Periced Corruptus Aw, are "everyone is stupider than me" crazies not using Sheeple anymore? Troglodyte's a great word, but you can't go wrong with a good "wake up, Sheeple!!!"
+Fearl yes, but with most things he only gets it half right or he focuses on a particular notion within a subject. Like...vitamins and he is focusing only on vitamin c and curing the common cold and then the topic is "vitamins are useless."
+Artbug that's totally true, my friends eat a lot of junk food or have unbalanced diets and they get ill all the time; meanwhile, i eat homemade food (wich is not only healthier but also cheaper where i live) and i haven't gotten ill in almost a year or so, so the only doctor i see is a dentist
All the people getting mad in the comments: he's not saying don't take your prescribed vitamin supplements. Sometimes, there are cases where it makes sense to take them. But for the average human who's eating a fairly healthy diet and not doing any extreme exercise or anything, these vitamins won't do much to help you. Like some other people have said, you're just having an expensive excrement. So yes, if you live somewhere more northern that doesn't get a lot of sun and take supplements, that's okay. And if you have low iron (like my mother, three of my friends, and many other men and women) take supplements. Changes in diet can help, but if you're prescribed supplements, take them. Just don't buy vitamins and consume them like candy because you think they're the magical cure for everything. That's what the video is getting at. Because there are people who do this. The people who take supplements of every vitamin, even though they are not deficient in most if not any of them.
Exactly. Me and my fiance take them because we can't always eat properly, hes a truck driver so it helps him when hes stuck eating fast food, and helps me when I'm too busy to cook properly. Changing our diets would cure everything, that is very much true.
That's true, I was recently positive for a low af on vitamin B3/B6 and I had to buy suplements for it... After I took it the first night I slept like a baby and I stopped getting my hands cold and stuff... Is really something when you aren't getting your vitamins
He doesn't mention medical conditions at all, and the title literally states that vitamins aren't healthy. Contradiction and exaggeration for the sake of views. That's precisely the problem with his diatribes.
That Michael Jackson comment was the truest thing I’ve ever heard. “Changed the game, we had no idea how crazy he was and 40yrs later we’re still humming the tunes”
RabuneHinoStudios This guy is full of crap. Im a doctor. Vitamins are very important for immunity. Common cold is caused by virus and immunity can't beat the virus. Learn some basic science before saying shit on youtube or your own tv show. Immunity increases your durability and withstanding power to stop infections and help in curing the same. Yea there is a problem with high levels of vitamins called vitaminosis which is not even lethal but may cause u bowel problems. But u need to take like around 4000mg of vitamins per day to reach that level. This guy is full of shit without even doing his research he tells this. Taking prophylactic vitamins are very important for health in case of women who are menstruating, pregnant and for children without them it causes birthdefects in pregnant women and growth retardation in children which are included in the national immunisation schedule. If it was fake why would WHO would put vitamins in NIS. This guy is full of bullcrap doing everything for the like and follow. He conveniently talks only of flu. This guy is fake and manipulates the facts.
Vitamins are roughly comparable to electricity to your computer. It needs electricity to function but hooking it up to a massive generator and dumping in all the amperage u can isn't gonna do anything to increase the amount of function you get out of it
for everyone in the comments, if you are wondering whether you need to take/can take vitamin supplements, schedule a blood test that tests vitamin levels (and also iron, which is a common deficiency) with your doctor (if you can afford it), or just sit down and have a talk with them about your diet. the doctor will show you the results and tell you if you need to either be thinking about your vitamin intake in normal foods, need to take supplements and prescribe them to you, or whether you have too much of something (which is entirely possible). if you have the money and means to do this, it is a way better alternative than to just assume you're not getting enough and accidentally either hurting your body, or doing something useless.
The problem is that testing your vitamin levels is far more expensive than just buying the supplements... (I'm not recommending that you just take supplements on the assumption that you might need them)
+TLP lucky Why do you say that? They backed up their claim with scientific research, do the same and people might not regard you as a crazy person who denies science even when it's thrust in front of them.
+GlowInTheDark MC these videos are not educational! this is only partly true and is seen from a certain perspective. dont believe everything you see and hear in the media vitamins are essential to stay healthy. you have to consume a certain dosis of essential vitamins or you will get sick or die...but it is true that, if you eat healthy and balanced you are not in need for vitamin pills at all.
Vitamins are helpful in many ways for those that don't get the amount of nutrients they should be getting already. Consider the average college student, eating a few meals a day of generally simple carbohydrates, proteins, and fats. For the layman who eats maybe 3 bananas and two salads a week, a potassium supplement may be beneficial. Do they need 7g of potassium injected directly into their veins? No. Does it help to have a supplement to act as a buffer? Yes. It's true supplement companies go to some extreme lengths at times, still there is somewhat of a necessity for vitamin buffers.
If you are actually low enough on potassium that side effects show up, taking vitamin supplements won't help. They are only legally allowed to put in about 100mg per pill (it has issues with kidney diseases, some medications and things like that is why). You are far, far better off eating, say, a baked potato with the skin, eating some spinach, drinking a glass of orange juice, drinking a glass of milk or even drinking a glass of coconut water. Each of those gives over 4 times more (and the potato up to ten times more) potassium in a more enjoyable, useful way than a simple pill. Or, yeah, eat a banana. Those things are cheap. Funny thing. Those "Nature Made" supplements for potassium say something like 550mg on the front... but each pill only contains 90mg of potassium.
Exactly! Throughout my childhood, I was an extremely picky eater. I don't know why, but I think I read somewhere that people on the autism spectrum (like me) are selective eaters. I've expanded my palate now, but I'm still choosy about what I eat. Because of this, I've been taking vitamin supplements since I was a kid, and still do to this day. And it's worked out fine. The only times you should take vitamins is when you're
Well the case is vitamin pills can be usefull for most of the ppl. If you eat perfectly you didnt really need vitamin pills, but someone, who didnt eat regularly and didnt eat healthy, really need them. Vitamins not cure for disease, but they incrase your durability against bacteriums, a cold and all sort of thing...
And let's face it, there's a lot of people who are not exactly what we would call healthy eaters - and if taking a vitamin supplement can benefit them health wise I'm all for it....!
+GorillaGuerilla your body absorbs around 20% of those vitamins supplements you take, and the rest comes out with urine. So it is really waste of money. Better eat healthy.
This is why mainstream daytime television "programming" sucks: Most of the shows (especially the "doctor" shows) are nothing more than hour-long infomercials trying to convince housewives to buy useless stuff they "need."
Discovered Adam Ruins Everything recently and I absolutely love it. You're doing a great job Adam (and team). So well done - from Adam's delivery to the super clever use of film techniques and transitions to make it visually engaging. Love it.
The title is very misleading. Just because (apparently) in America what people call “vitamins” is vitamin supplements, doesn’t mean you should remove the “supplement” part from the title especially when you explained the difference in the video. But I guess this may just be a video directed to Americans and as an Italian I just find it stupid… Here’s a suggestion: you could change “we” to “Americans” and “us” to “them” in the title.
I'm pretty sure you mean what thousands of people before you have said, and repeated, with multiple previous scientific evidence backing it up. You're certainly not the first person to say that.
+Evan Gragg I should hope so; the man was unabashedly lying and on the same news channel that reported it, they then started gushing about his latest recommendation.
+Evan Gragg Doctor Oz used to give real advice when he was on Oprah. But now that he has to give people half an hour of content once a week, his show has deteriorated dramatically. He really gives out either pseudoscience or advice based upon minimal evidence. He has also has become the king of exaggerators.
It is easy to seem smart when you surround yourself with actors playing dumb. Its really annoying. He seems to try and flaunt his knowledge. Good thing he has a script to make him appear intelligent.
+BeginToThink yes ikr there have been people who have been put into remission of cancer with huge amounts of vitamin D, but the FDA says the only thing that helps cancer is Chemo and Radiation which only works 2-3% of the time
+BeginToThink Thank you! I am getting sick of this kind of humor on the TV and online. Both right wing and left leaning TV shows love bringing on the most absurd people to argue with, and then when the person says nothing, they just laugh and say "That's who disagrees with us! Isn't it obvious! He's wrong!" And people actually think that it is educational.
+Maxim T Potvin Actually no that was disproven vitamin C actually prevents and dissolves kidney stones you are giving out faulty information. orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v09n05.shtml
The only vitamin I use on a semi-regular basis is D vitamin. When you're prone to seasonal depression and live in an area that gets only few hours of sunlight a day during the dead of winter, it's a good addition. I suffer from moderate-to-severe depression anyway, so I'd rather be safe, because so often I've gone to school/work when it's pitch black and left when it's dark again, without catching a single ray of sunshine the entire day. It's full on night time by like 3pm.
+Smiles Yeah. So that ig Pharma who has been trying to patent Vitamins for the past 50 years can tell you vitamins aren't good for you. But their toxic pills are. Don't eat better and equalize your system. Let us shoot toxic waste into your blood stream until your tongue falls out. What he said in this video is factually inaccurate. Sad that people will actually believe it. On another note. Did you hear that Marijuana kills rain cells?...
+JRMCNEA I can provide anecdotal evidence that marijuana is bad for your brain. Just talk to my wife's siblings for a half hour or so and you'll believe it too.
+My last display name was too long While under the influence of marijuana, it does negatively impact the functionality of your mind. However, so do many over-the-counter medicines, and they are not "bad for your brain." This isn't to say marijuana is fine for you, but currently, all that's known for sure is that it can help a lot with some mental disorders (most commonly depression) and smoking it is bad for your lungs.
I think it would've been good to at least make a passing reference to fringe examples where vitamins are necessary. For instance, I moved to Interior Alaska and in the winters we see very little sunlight. This contributes to lethargy, depression, and higher production of cortisol levels (not to mention the way it ruins your circadian rhythm.) Vitamin D helps tremendously with this.
There have been incidents of scurvy in the student community in my town. Students who live off frozen pizza and actually remove the little pieces of peppers that are on them. Vitamin supplements are useless, unless your diet itself is useless.
Interesting fact about B carotene. It was found that people who had more B carotene in their blood were healthier (less cancer + heart disease I think), and then people drew the conclusion that B carotene itself must be good and you should supplement with it. However the higher levels of B carotene in the blood were from eating a greater amount of fruits and vegetables, which was the real benefit. Like you said B carotene supplements themselves were found to be harmful.
***** Medical science doesn't reject supplements completely, but their recommended uses are just very limited. Like you say; if you are lacking a certain nutrient, just eat more fruit. If that still doesn't work, see a doctor.
My former boss, who was a doctor, actually brought some vitamin C to the office during winter to prevent his employees from getting sick. I was quite disappointed about a doctor not knowing his stuff and took none of the vitamin C. Although very rare, vitamin deficiencies can also occur in industrialized countries, but if there is one vitamin we really got enough of, it's vitamin C. That shit is in everything. It's even used as preservative agent in many processed food...
"no one needs to load up on cats" looks down at kitten to left looks at cat at feet looks at circle of cats, closing in on me i don't think you understand. fur... is in my blood i cough up hairball on a regular basis hack cough choke
Everyone in my state is getting sick rn. Including my brokers, girlfriend, dad, dad's girlfriend, grandma, girlfriends parents, etc. I've been around all of them and I haven't gotten sick. I usually get sick this time of year. But I've been taking vitamin C and D dialy. Correlation? Probably
Vitamins supplements are not completely useless. They do nothing if you live a healthy life and eat normally, but if you lack some vitamins because of your lifestyle, supplements can be good. For example, I am almost always in the dark, and not getting sunlight means producing less vitamin D, supplements can help with that.
+Metsuryu They most certainly do not "do nothing" (sorry for the double negative). Anything in excess can be extremely harmful, especially when it comes to anything that your body needs, such as nutrients.
Vitamin D is different than other vitamins, as it doesn't really come from the diet, and is more of a hormone than anything. I would definitely take vitamin D if you don't get a lot of sun.
Taking Vitamin D does almost nothing- it needs to be turned into its active state by UV exposure, so you need the sun (or other appropriate UV light). You can't ingest the active form. That's why you'll find photos of submarine crew being exposed to artificial UV light- they need it- tablets won't do a thing... probably: Vitamins A, D, E and K are all lipid (fat) soluble, which means your body can store them easily. That means they're the vitamins you really have to watch out for overdosing on if you are taking supplements. It's probably good that those tablets you're eating are actually doing nothing.
That's not accurate... I've had my active vitamin D tested before and after supplementing and it definitely changed. You're not going to "overdose" on vitamin D by taking 1000 or 2000 IU a day.
+Maria Newman as jacob said. it BLOWS his mind everytime LOLOLOL PUNNY....wait i made another pun? SHIT im just PUNISHING You people at this point. Oh god pls halp me.
Frozen Gamer I get it, my mind is my brain and my brain is inside my head and my face is on my head and one activates the oral sex activity by opening one's mouth and does the sexing on the reproductive part of one's body. It all makes sense now.
I've been really sick and my sister started making my family take these gummy vitamins and I've been wondering if that is what got me sick but now it's all cleared up. Thanks Adam!
Molly Allen This guy is full of crap. Im a doctor. Vitamins are very important for immunity. Common cold is caused by virus and immunity can't beat the virus. Learn some basic science before saying shit on youtube or your own tv show. Immunity increases your durability and withstanding power to stop infections and help in curing the same. Yea there is a problem with high levels of vitamins called vitaminosis which is not even lethal but may cause u bowel problems. But u need to take like around 4000mg of vitamins per day to reach that level. This guy is full of shit without even doing his research he tells this. Taking prophylactic vitamins are very important for health in case of women who are menstruating, pregnant and for children without them it causes birthdefects in pregnant women and growth retardation in children which are included in the national immunisation schedule. If it was fake why would WHO would put vitamins in NIS. This guy is full of bullcrap doing everything for the like and follow. He conveniently talks only of flu. This guy is fake and manipulates the facts.
Actually, the value of nutritional supplements is just a little bit more complex than that portrayed here. Knowing something about this issue, and seeing its vast over-simplification, causes me to wonder about some of the OTHER Adam ruins everything videos.
yeah his videos are good but often leave out a few things that are legit just to sell something is "totally" shocking or mind blowing. He does not aim for nuance it is harder to sell. He plays on the outrage, shock or the people who already agree with him. His videos are normally the ones you get in those "i told you so" moments because he is somehow an authority on things...
@@KyleJCustodio it´s simple, most of the people that come here didn´t really see this video, and the others who claim "this video is wrong" and things like that... didn´t really analyse it well, imagine that I told you something as "Plants have some human senses", you´ll inmediatly think about something as pain or any sort of things similar... But actually they have some common senses that we don´t really know about. But imagine that you inmediatly make all the things that i told you in a generalisation, and claim that i´m wrong because plants can feel as we do... Then you have comments like this. Yeah, vitamin suplements are most complex, but he´s not talking about te complexity, he´s talking about how most of the corporations that make them, are just telling you a lie. Vitamins are good, Overdosis are bad, think that you can´t get the correct vitamins of your food (without seeing a doctor) IT´S GOD DAMN FREAKING WRONG. Sorry, i have a lapsus.
Thank you for including the part about the vitamins that can make you sick! I have IIH & I use to take vitamin A supplements when I was young (I didn't know any better,I thought it was good for my eyes & skin) & my Dr thinks that that's a small part of why I have IIH now (its caused by a lot of small things going wrong all at once).
Emphasis on "a small part". Vitamins A D E and K can be stored in the body as fat. The others, you simple pee out. So yes, you can theoretically accumulate levels so high it can cause harm. You'd have to eat about x30 the recommended supplements everyday for at least a year. Tablets are usually around 2,500 mcg I believe? You'd need 10,000 per kilogram.
@@KelseysWonderland11 was trying to make the point that you have to try REALLY hard to take enough vitamins to harm your body and you shouldn't just blanket vitamin supplements as harmful and a marketing ploy, but sure...what do med students know.
My take on vit A C D E supplements, is the synthetic forms can be useful temporarily, but vit A C D E complexes food sourced, are an irreplaceable go to for sustaining health.
Well vitamin c helps you absorb iron which your body needs for it's white blood platelets. That said it only helps if it's the limiting factor on your immune system, issues such as stress or sleep deprivation can totally ruin your immune system and vitamin c and iron can't compensate for that. Oh and it will only ever help you to not catch a cold not do anything to cure it. I don't even think hospital grade immunoboosters will help you much when it comes to that.
If I, as a biologist, suddenly tell you that elephants don't exist, you know that's a crock of dung. The fact is that Adam has done his research and sources people WHO DO HAVE THOSE QUALIFICATIONS and have proven that bad medical practise is behind this information. This means he doesn't need a medical license to tell you that some people that do have one are absolute lying hacks.
Misleading. A daily multivitamin is worth taking unless you are obsessed with tracking the precise nutrients in everything you eat. It can help mitigate slight nutritional deficiencies in your diet.
Just remember if you actually NEED the vitamins you should definitely take them. It's just that most people don't need them.
+Snakebite105
Yeah, good point. If your medical physician prescribes vitamins, you should take them.
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I come from New England and in the fall and winter months we have constantly cloudy weather so it's pretty common place for people in the area to be Vitamin D deficient.
+Snakebite105
He says "If your eating a regular diet you should be fine" as if most peoples diets aren't comprised of mostly biscut-like foods, like that pirate....Most people have deficiencies so vitamin rich foods are needed. The body only absorbs about 12% of synthetic vitamins TOPS! THAT'S what the focus should be here. I think this show might just be meant to school us on trivial shit and fool us on IMPORTANT ones....just a thought though lol
Snakebite105
You mean people *say* they are deficient, or they are diagnosed as such by a medical physician?
If you eat varied food, you'll be fine. Vitamin D deficiency is a risk if you're old, or if you have a bowel disorder.
+Smaakjeks Kjeks Or if you live somewhere shitty. I know a number of people who were diagnosed as vitamin D deficient after moving to Scotland, due to the lack of sun. But then vitamin D deficiency ain't even too bad.
As a college student who survives on ramen, I think vitamin supplements are decent for me.
Talivus Or you could take the money you spend on supplements and instead spend it on healthy food 🤷♀️
@@Serve24 you do now vitamins are way cheaper option right? Groceries in NYC cost $70+ a week. For reference, a head of broccoli cost $7. A bottle of vitamin that last one year cost only $30
Talivus Wow, that’s insane! A head of broccoli is $1 where I live. That’s ridiculous.
@@Serve24 it's NYC, everything is expensive and you get very little of it. That's why I said vitamins are a good supplements if you are a poor college student. Once I get a job, I could care less as NYC has some of the highest paying jobs in the world. But until then, I'm dirt poor
@@5000cz Start a hydroponics garden and make heads of broccoli to sell.
"Who gave you your medical liscense?"
*Oprah*
I'm dead 😂
Because you didn't take your vitamins.
@@vladtheimpaler9577 wow
How did u write this comment
666th like
I am now satan
Bow down to me peasants
YOU GET A MEDICAL LICENSE
YOU GET A MEDICAL LICENSE
YOU GET A MEDICAL LICENSE YOU GET A MEDICAL LICENSE
AND EVERYONE GETS A MEDICAL LICENSE
If your doctor recommends vitamins along with other tablets, then take it.
This video is 100% irresponsible. Vitamins are not magic.... but they are needed for things like deficiencies, and other disorders. Vitamins also serve as a great way for preventative care, but he is right you shouldn't mega dose... However this video makes it sound like no matter what life style you live you never need vitamins... XD
Mickey Moose well yes, but the message it was conveying is if you eat a fairly nutritious diet and aren’t prescribed them then you don’t need the supplements
@@MickeyH159 yeah this Adam is a dumb dumb Itoo many people don't believe him I'm gonna copypasta your comment so more people see if you don't mind.
He’s talking about normal people and people who don’t have such disorders, he simply said that if you eat normally then from that alone you usually get the amount of vitamins you need and that overdosing on them is not a great idea, he never said that if your doctor prescribes it or if you have a vitamin deficiency then just die, he simply aimed it at the majority who don’t have such problems and just take vitamins because they think it’s healthy. It’s pretty much just misunderstood, though I can forgive people for misunderstanding since the point wasn’t completely clear and could be represented better
Except deficiencies ARE common, especially vitamin D deficiencies in areas that don't have as much sun. So people living in these states aren't as "normal" as people who live in sunnier climates?
With all this fake doctor's smoke and mirrors, you'd swear his name was OZ
That is the joke
Ooooooo that’s good
Uh 666 likes nice
Lol
BOOOOOOOOOO
Why is this even an issue? Everyone where I live(Denmark) knows that vitamins are basically just there to supplement any deficiencies(most often in winter, when we don't get a lot of sun).
america
Yes, we should propably watch a little less american society-critisism. After a while, it turns you insane. Greetings from Austria, ven!
All those stupid diet fads and most of the other food or health cults come from one place: california.
Same in England, I take vitamins (vitamin D mainly, plus some others) during the winter, and occasionally I take extra supplements if my doctor says I need to, also if I can't eat enough fruits.
coz money and health go hand in hand in the US, so making you paranoid about your health milks money
vitamins may not cure anything, but if you're a person who doesn't eat a nutritional diet then supplements are better than nothing.
Hey man have a great day
+No Google I don't want to use my real name Good thing there isn't a lack of unintelligent idiots on UA-cam huh?
+Amanda Vadon True, if your diet is heavily lacking a nutrient then a supplement to bring it up to normal levels is a good idea. But as stated in the video, that's a rather extreme case these days. Overloading on vitamins can be a very bad thing though, as whatever your body doesn't need needs to be metabolized and filtered out by the liver and having to continually do so puts enormous strain on it. If you think you've got a vitamin deficiency due to poor diet, chance your diet a bit, if you think you have a vitamin deficiency due to something else like an illness or other medical reason, go see a doctor.
+Ravell Wolf Or just do what normal people do and eat a fucking salad =P
+Vamptacular
What about the goddam plants??
“We get most of our vitamins from our diet and only need a little bit!” Adam, HAVE YOU SEEN THE SO CALLED AMERICAN “DIET”? lol 😂
ah yes the American diet which is just lots of sugar
I think you dropped a 👑, lemme pick it up for you, my king
@@ihazplawe2503 and fat
@@InvaderTak176 saturated and trans fat. Some fats are actually good for you
I don't get this? Is it because I'm British
But Adam I don't eat normal food in normal quantities... 1:07
We have actual food here still. +Evi1M4chine
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the crazy family u wot m8?
DavidVsNorm I eat weird ass snacks all the time in tiny quanitities... I'm very underweight
Evi1M4chine since when is chips amd cola 'food'?
As a nutritional science major this video made me feel so many different things 😅 I can guarantee you that taking vitamins/minerals does not equate to being healthy in general. But for some people, mostly the the elderly and frequently females in general, their bodies can’t absorb vitamins as effectively as they would hope. For the average American, vitamin supplements are NOT necessary. For some, they can be beneficial. For others, they’re basically a godsend. But there are upper limits to how much you should consume through your diet and supplements, and consumption above that amount puts you at high risk for suffering the effects of toxicity for that particular vitamin/mineral. That applies to everybody. I agree that, for example, vitamin C can definitely not cure the common cold. But it’s irresponsible to portray all vitamins in such a negative light.
That being said, I still love these videos and the lies & truths they expose 😊 I appreciate your work, keep it up!
That's not really the case, a lot of people have vitamin deficiency, it's just not so severe as to be a primary complaint when coming in to see the doctor. There has yet to be a diet devised that will get you all of the necessary vitamins while keeping to contemporary caloric requirements. A diet that would get you all the necessary vitamins, would make you obese as foods lack the necessary nutrient density to make it work.
Well I had covid and vitamin supplements cured it in 4 weeks and 2 weeks on an oxygen tank but it was totally only the supplements That cured it
Tbh I think he is refering to the ppl that take vitamins without a doctor recomending it
You lost me when you mentioned 'frequently females'.
A doctor (neurosurgeon) told me the body often times can't process vitamin pills, so they're essentially useless. Apparently eating fruit is way more effective even if you have deficiencies.
*Just eat a lemon. Ever.*
I will die of scurvy before I literally eat a damn lemon.
Update: I ate a damn lemon.
Connor Brown then eat an orange
@@420-j you son of a b**** I'm in
I eat a lemon slice every lunch. It tastes good. Try it.
braydon the gold watcher Rick and Morty reference?
@@connordziadul6048 yes
“No one needs to load up on cats.”
Me, a crazy cat lady: shocked Pikachu face
_Shocked Meowth Face_
They just keep showing up at m6 🚪,
The title is misleading, it should say "The Weird Reason We Think Vitamin SUPPLEMENTS Are Good For Us . . . ".
Vitamins ARE obviously good for you and even (as the video states) are essential for life, which is the definition of a vitamin.
And even supplements are useful in a lot of cases. Taking vitamin D supplements during winter is typically a good idea. Taking vitamin B12 is essential if you don't eat animal products. And taking other vitamins is probably useful for a lot of people as well, considering how common it is to have a horribly one-sided diet.
@@lenasandner4721 Exactly. Especially if you have a dark skin color and live way up north. Here in Finland in the winter we get less than 3 hours of sunlight at the minimum point. Those whose ethnic backgrounds are from northern areas have a lighter skin that is capable of producing more vitamin D for less sunlight, but those whose ethnic backgrounds are from the equator for example and have a darker skin color produce next to none vitamin D at all during that short period of time so they literally have to take supplements to get any. It being cold in the wintertime lessens that amount even further because people wear more clothing and the little sunlight doesn't even get to your skin in the first place.
But they won't cure anything other than diseases caused by lack of vitamins
Vitamins is short for Vital Amines as in amino acids that are essential for living. Over time the definition of a vitamin was somewhat expanded to include things which were other types of molecules, but by definition they are things that the body either cannot produce on its own or cannot produce in sufficient quantity on its own without supplementation.
The main issue is when people take excessive amounts of vitamins hoping for additional benefit. With the exception of fat soluble vitamins like A, D, E and K, the rest are mostly passed out of the body along with the urine. They may still have some harmful effects anyways, but it's moderated by the fact that it dissolves in water and exits via urine.
@@lenasandner4721 A one sided diet makes no sense unless the person lives off PIZZA Daily for an entire life time could cause Problems indeed. Donuts with water would be more one sided but retards get treated.
This is to everyone who has laughed at me and looked at me in confusion as to why I've never had vitamin pills.
I TOLD YOU SO!
+Karin KaPOW No one should even consider taking vitamin pills unless they have a specific health problem and are prescripted by a doctor. Who the hell are those people ?
+The Glorious GeneralDerpSide Americans 👍
+The Glorious GeneralDerpSide You know, vitamin C pills are mandatory to people, who live in cold, northern regions.
***** Well, ok thats understandable and is indirectly related to health problems.
Oh, and i also have a health problem with vitamin d12, that i cant receive it from sunlight. Probably because i grew in a cold, cloudy enviroment. Like N.Europe.
Why did I read this as “The Weird Reason We Think Vietnamese Are Good For Us”?
Guisadong Mista
I read it as “The Weird Reason We Think Virgins Are Good For Us”
I read that too😂
I did too
Freudian slip
I'm Vietnamese....
IM NOT GOOD FOR YOU O-O
Why did everyone in the comments suddenly get a PhD in medicine
you know what, I don't know could it be that most of them just saw something on the internet and are pretending to be smart? no way!
they prob just googled the stuff shitting on adam is super easy barley a inconvenience
@@lolmanmagee2785
A reference to Pitch meetings. Nice....
But some of the things that are being said in the comments... Are actually true. If you have an unhealthy or uneven diet, vitamin supplements are a necessity, because your body currently doesn't have what it should in vitamins.
@@THE_AceOfSarcasm not saiyan its incorrect due to the fact they got it from google, google is useful for loadsa things ; on a side note im surprised but happy someone got the pitch meetings reference
@@lolmanmagee2785
Oh, I don't think all of them got it from Google. I know I didn't. I personally don't eat much, and it didn't take a Google search to connect the dots, and realise that I should take vitamin supplements because if I don't eat enough, I'm not going to get the vitamins I need.
I just saw, a case of Vitamin A overdose about two months ago. This woman not only consumed the pills on a daily basis 2 or 3 times a day, but also she had a friend make her a list of each food rich in VitA and made that her ONLY diet, barely any vegetables. She came in with pleural edema, fotosensitivity and a horrible rash that caused a necrosis around her lips and on the tip of her nose (wich almost had to be removed). She is almost blind, and when she was informed of the cause she claimed she was gonna sue the hospital "because they were trying to replace vitamins in the world with vaccines, and make everyone retarded".
Anyway, nice holidays to all!!!
!!!!!
+Fede
Wow, very interesting.
+Fede Did She must not have included any vitamin D with it. Even high doses of A around a million IU for several days won't become toxic if as little as 1000 IU of D3 is taken with it.
+WaterspoutsOfTheDeep thats what so rare about it! She was only 46 y/o, i was also thinking se could be alcoholic since she denied drinking way to strongly and had some signs of B12 and B6 deficit... is amazing how far some cases can go :(
And all because of that fraudulent research paper that stated that the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine causes autism. Fuck the paper and fuck the arsehats who produced it.
To be fair, Linus Pauling died at the ripe old age of 93.
So?
+xXRockXLobsterXx but he still died of cancer.
+Owen Farmer Everyone develops cancer eventually. It's a matter of will your organs fail first before a cancer gets you.
AJ P Yeah, everyone has cancer cells inside them, no matter what, and they'll start replicating eventually. But if you died and the cells still haven't started replicating, you're good then.
+xXRockXLobsterXx Let's also be fair, this dummy Adam is just a tool for the big pharma.
Vitamins are useless. Brooohaaahhhaaahhhaaa.
Bad vitamins that big pharma produces are useless for sure. But well made real vitamins are critical since the food you eat today has about a third of the vitamins that they had 50 years ago thx to corporate farming techniques.
As a board certified physician (M.D.), I'm concerned that this misleading viral video will make the public think vitamins are never necessary. Because of socio-economic factors (i.e., financial access to fresh vegetables and fruit), Americans may not meet their nutritional requirements with their diet alone and may in certain instances need supplementation for healthy function: for example, prenatal vitamins (folic acid and iron) during pregnancy, vitamin D and calcium in patients with osteopenia. Hope people watching this video will talk to their physician first before believing CollegeHumor.
Well said! Not only are socio-economics a factor, but lack of good info as well! Rich people can be taken in by fad diets that aren't good for them just as well as anyone, and veggies and fruits can be mishandled, or labeled "fresh" even when it's been sitting around for a few days, losing its nutritional potency. As Jackie Chan's "uncle" says in his cartoon, "You must do research!!"
I agree that there are limitations to Vitamins in pill form but I appreciated that your comment covered the real need for prenatal vitamins by women. I wish there was a follow up video that covered this aspect and benefits of vitamins.
+Jay Villanueva (Dr. Jay) The full episode answers your question
+Jay Villanueva (Dr. Jay) they know that so he wraps it up and tries to make it up with the audience in the full episode to avoid misinterpretations
To add, vitamin D supplements are very useful for people who rarely get out in the sun, or live in cold dark northern regions during the winter.
This reminds me of when I was little I ate a TON of gummy vitamins (don’t blame me!they tasted good!) and got a stomach ache
i have one with vitamin d and i take one, only one every day
That's why they said two or one gummies a day.
I did that with flintstones lmao
Some kid accidentally ate gummy vitamins like they were normal gummies and he almost died
☝️Presenting to the emergency room
When I want the placebo effect for the common cold I just drink orange juice
At least OJ tastes good. Though I might be biased, since I'm a Floridian.
OJ does help the cold. He was slightly wrong in this video. Vitamin C doesn't treat the common cold, but it DOES shorten it.
+Generation Cinema nope
Maximus C. Yup.
+Generation Cinema He did mention in the full episode of this video that even experts can be wrong.
Thanks for destroying my placebo effect Adam
Chillycheese52 This guy is full of crap. Im a doctor. Vitamins are very important for immunity. Common cold is caused by virus and immunity can't beat the virus. Learn some basic science before saying shit on youtube or your own tv show. Immunity increases your durability and withstanding power to stop infections and help in curing the same. Yea there is a problem with high levels of vitamins called vitaminosis which is not even lethal but may cause u bowel problems. But u need to take like around 4000mg of vitamins per day to reach that level. This guy is full of shit without even doing his research he tells this. Taking prophylactic vitamins are very important for health in case of women who are menstruating, pregnant and for children without them it causes birthdefects in pregnant women and growth retardation in children which are included in the national immunisation schedule. If it was fake why would WHO would put vitamins in NIS. This guy is full of bullcrap doing everything for the like and follow. He conveniently talks only of flu. This guy is fake and manipulates the facts.
Actually, he has researchers check out many different sources before accepting a statement as fact.
I don't believe you are a doctor.
Sarat Anandh that's not a very professional comment for a doctor
Sarat Anandh I think you misunderstand Adam's argument, although I will note that he does not put it across very clearly. His is arguing against "mega supplement pills" for vitamins, deeming them over the top. I don't believe he is denouncing Vitamins, although it may seem like it, but rather taking a jab at the lengths people go to ensure they are all stocked up on Vitamins (ie spending 60 dollars for 3 weeks worth of Vitamin C Pills when you can spend less for the same effect by eating fruits)
I've learned more from Adam then Health class XD
Can he just teach my med class
same
Than*
Same
1:50 Tchaikovsky symphony no. 1 3rd movement. I love that song
YOU’Ll NEVER TAKE AWAY MY FLINSTONE GUMMIES!!!
FlinTstone
Ugh, I LOVE this show.
+JulesLovesUA-cam Reading your name that's no surprise ha ha
+Periced Corruptus Aw, are "everyone is stupider than me" crazies not using Sheeple anymore? Troglodyte's a great word, but you can't go wrong with a good "wake up, Sheeple!!!"
+Periced Corruptus What "bullshit" is there exactly? He has cited information on everything he says that you can easily check with.
+Fearl yes, but with most things he only gets it half right or he focuses on a particular notion within a subject. Like...vitamins and he is focusing only on vitamin c and curing the common cold and then the topic is "vitamins are useless."
Scallywag You realize this is a small segment of an entire episode of a show he does, right? I'm sure he'll talk about more than just the one vitamin.
Adam: what did you learn?
Me:...
Adam: I said, what did you learn?
Me:...
VITAMINS=CATS
Me an intellectual:
Vitamin C
I learned things I already knew I just take multivitamins cuz i rarely eat fruit nowadays
Your taking too much vitamin cringe
You can never have too much cats!
The only vitamin ladies need is Vitamin Me.
Lol
nah. vitamin D
+Danny Dang Vitamin Teemo?
But in all seriousness, pregnant ladies need folic acid to prevent birth defects and Vitamin D to help slow down osteoporosis during menopause.
+Danny Dang smh
"I thought that was a lie parents tell kids, like vitamins." - Miguel
It was miguel who guide us here
I disagree. There is no such thing as too many cats. It just doesn't work that way.
Michal Moravčík - same
What about 1,000,000 cats?
I don't think you can feed too many cats. You'll go bankrupt.
Michal Moravčík crazy cat lady
Go watch Animal Hoarders on Netflix and see if you still think that lol.
...Except with the shit most Americans eat in their regular diets, vitamins supplements have become necessary.
Eat a healthy balanced diet and you won't need vitamins... you also won't need a doctor.
+Artbug that's totally true, my friends eat a lot of junk food or have unbalanced diets and they get ill all the time; meanwhile, i eat homemade food (wich is not only healthier but also cheaper where i live) and i haven't gotten ill in almost a year or so, so the only doctor i see is a dentist
+Artbug There are rare people that eat a healthy balance diet nowadays, so vitamins are still recommended
+Artbug artificial everything, dried tasteless mystery meat patties and paper tasting lettuce at mcdonalds. isn't that enough? if eaten 1000 times?
Why Americans? Wtf
All the people getting mad in the comments: he's not saying don't take your prescribed vitamin supplements. Sometimes, there are cases where it makes sense to take them. But for the average human who's eating a fairly healthy diet and not doing any extreme exercise or anything, these vitamins won't do much to help you. Like some other people have said, you're just having an expensive excrement.
So yes, if you live somewhere more northern that doesn't get a lot of sun and take supplements, that's okay. And if you have low iron (like my mother, three of my friends, and many other men and women) take supplements. Changes in diet can help, but if you're prescribed supplements, take them.
Just don't buy vitamins and consume them like candy because you think they're the magical cure for everything. That's what the video is getting at. Because there are people who do this. The people who take supplements of every vitamin, even though they are not deficient in most if not any of them.
Exactly. Me and my fiance take them because we can't always eat properly, hes a truck driver so it helps him when hes stuck eating fast food, and helps me when I'm too busy to cook properly. Changing our diets would cure everything, that is very much true.
That's true, I was recently positive for a low af on vitamin B3/B6 and I had to buy suplements for it... After I took it the first night I slept like a baby and I stopped getting my hands cold and stuff... Is really something when you aren't getting your vitamins
But... Joe Rogan says vitamins are good.
I get it, but the way he is presenting his argument is misleading
He doesn't mention medical conditions at all, and the title literally states that vitamins aren't healthy. Contradiction and exaggeration for the sake of views. That's precisely the problem with his diatribes.
That Michael Jackson comment was the truest thing I’ve ever heard. “Changed the game, we had no idea how crazy he was and 40yrs later we’re still humming the tunes”
I literally LoL'd at how accurate that joke was.
So true lol
As someone who only grew up knowing 1 Jackson 5 song and no only Michael Jacksons songs this isn't at all true for me
i show my mom this video: this guy has proof that i dont need to take so many vitamins!. "Don't believe everything that is on the internet!" *sigh*
+DeEwouterKabouter tell her not to believe anecdotes more than science
Well I'm showing my mum when she's home! Cause she believes many things from the internet *facepalm*
Isn't this on the Internet lul
+LLAMASinNEED I don't know about *you*, but I'm not on the internet.
+DeEwouterKabouter You should show her the sources, every episodes has popup notations and even a site that has the sources for the episode.
Everything I know is a lie.
Pretty much.
i feel the same way.
Because of commercial scams
Not a lie, rather a misconception. But if it's not that then it's most definitely a lie...
RabuneHinoStudios This guy is full of crap. Im a doctor. Vitamins are very important for immunity. Common cold is caused by virus and immunity can't beat the virus. Learn some basic science before saying shit on youtube or your own tv show. Immunity increases your durability and withstanding power to stop infections and help in curing the same. Yea there is a problem with high levels of vitamins called vitaminosis which is not even lethal but may cause u bowel problems. But u need to take like around 4000mg of vitamins per day to reach that level. This guy is full of shit without even doing his research he tells this. Taking prophylactic vitamins are very important for health in case of women who are menstruating, pregnant and for children without them it causes birthdefects in pregnant women and growth retardation in children which are included in the national immunisation schedule. If it was fake why would WHO would put vitamins in NIS. This guy is full of bullcrap doing everything for the like and follow. He conveniently talks only of flu. This guy is fake and manipulates the facts.
Vitamins are roughly comparable to electricity to your computer. It needs electricity to function but hooking it up to a massive generator and dumping in all the amperage u can isn't gonna do anything to increase the amount of function you get out of it
for everyone in the comments, if you are wondering whether you need to take/can take vitamin supplements, schedule a blood test that tests vitamin levels (and also iron, which is a common deficiency) with your doctor (if you can afford it), or just sit down and have a talk with them about your diet.
the doctor will show you the results and tell you if you need to either be thinking about your vitamin intake in normal foods, need to take supplements and prescribe them to you, or whether you have too much of something (which is entirely possible).
if you have the money and means to do this, it is a way better alternative than to just assume you're not getting enough and accidentally either hurting your body, or doing something useless.
The problem is that testing your vitamin levels is far more expensive than just buying the supplements... (I'm not recommending that you just take supplements on the assumption that you might need them)
These videos teach me more than school does, I love this show.
Ikr but the question is.....is everything really true xD
+ThatCookie Gamer no its not... this video is BS i cant say for other videos but this one is is not true
+TLP lucky Why do you say that? They backed up their claim with scientific research, do the same and people might not regard you as a crazy person who denies science even when it's thrust in front of them.
+GlowInTheDark MC these videos are not educational!
this is only partly true and is seen from a certain perspective. dont believe everything you see and hear in the media
vitamins are essential to stay healthy. you have to consume a certain dosis of essential vitamins or you will get sick or die...but it is true that, if you eat healthy and balanced you are not in need for vitamin pills at all.
Benschooo You basically just paraphrased the video. What's your point?
Vitamins are helpful in many ways for those that don't get the amount of nutrients they should be getting already. Consider the average college student, eating a few meals a day of generally simple carbohydrates, proteins, and fats. For the layman who eats maybe 3 bananas and two salads a week, a potassium supplement may be beneficial. Do they need 7g of potassium injected directly into their veins? No. Does it help to have a supplement to act as a buffer? Yes. It's true supplement companies go to some extreme lengths at times, still there is somewhat of a necessity for vitamin buffers.
If you are actually low enough on potassium that side effects show up, taking vitamin supplements won't help. They are only legally allowed to put in about 100mg per pill (it has issues with kidney diseases, some medications and things like that is why). You are far, far better off eating, say, a baked potato with the skin, eating some spinach, drinking a glass of orange juice, drinking a glass of milk or even drinking a glass of coconut water. Each of those gives over 4 times more (and the potato up to ten times more) potassium in a more enjoyable, useful way than a simple pill.
Or, yeah, eat a banana. Those things are cheap.
Funny thing. Those "Nature Made" supplements for potassium say something like 550mg on the front... but each pill only contains 90mg of potassium.
ConflictingPersonalities /\ Games And More you're boring
Exactly! Throughout my childhood, I was an extremely picky eater. I don't know why, but I think I read somewhere that people on the autism spectrum (like me) are selective eaters. I've expanded my palate now, but I'm still choosy about what I eat. Because of this, I've been taking vitamin supplements since I was a kid, and still do to this day. And it's worked out fine. The only times you should take vitamins is when you're
TheMbmdcrew you didnt finish the sentence.......
wrongg
I spend most of the show looking at Adam's hair. It's on point!
"Who gave you a medical license?"
"Oprah"
Best line
Well the case is vitamin pills can be usefull for most of the ppl. If you eat perfectly you didnt really need vitamin pills, but someone, who didnt eat regularly and didnt eat healthy, really need them. Vitamins not cure for disease, but they incrase your durability against bacteriums, a cold and all sort of thing...
And let's face it, there's a lot of people who are not exactly what we would call healthy eaters - and if taking a vitamin supplement can benefit them health wise I'm all for it....!
+GorillaGuerilla They're probably not even taking the ones they need, anyway. That's the reality.
+GorillaGuerilla your body absorbs around 20% of those vitamins supplements you take, and the rest comes out with urine. So it is really waste of money. Better eat healthy.
+Sotyka94 Actually you would have to eat really horribley to need them.
+Lloyd Nix well you dont really need them, but vitamins can help you big time.
I so addicted to your shows, I watch it everyday dammit
I watch it all the time
Your life is ruined
omg then your life must be sad.
"No one needs to load up on cats."
Says you.
"Who have you a medical license?" - "Oprah" had me in stitches! 🤣
This is why mainstream daytime television "programming" sucks: Most of the shows (especially the "doctor" shows) are nothing more than hour-long infomercials trying to convince housewives to buy useless stuff they "need."
Discovered Adam Ruins Everything recently and I
absolutely love it. You're doing a great job Adam (and team). So well done - from Adam's delivery to the super clever use of film techniques and transitions to make it visually engaging. Love it.
Oh I thought it said veterans.
XD
XD
XD
I red vietnam is a mynth
Hah, nonsense. Eating veterans is crazy good for your health!
He isn’t the only one with two nobel prizes, marie curie got two as well and she got hers both in science
The title is very misleading. Just because (apparently) in America what people call “vitamins” is vitamin supplements, doesn’t mean you should remove the “supplement” part from the title especially when you explained the difference in the video. But I guess this may just be a video directed to Americans and as an Italian I just find it stupid…
Here’s a suggestion: you could change “we” to “Americans” and “us” to “them” in the title.
Movie Nerd
…And? This American website is used by people worldwide, you idiot. :)
*****
I’ve never heard of anyone confusing them before, and this certainly isn’t a thing in Italy… it’s a really weird story to me.
ALAKTORN Thanks for spaghetti and pizza, bitch.
Movie Nerd
You’re welcome.
+ALAKTORN I am from Italy too :) ! Cheers, buddy !
Something I say *“too much of a good thing is a bad thing”*
I'm pretty sure you mean what thousands of people before you have said, and repeated, with multiple previous scientific evidence backing it up. You're certainly not the first person to say that.
No
@@creative8d14 lmao
So he's gonna make fun of Dr Oz?
+Evan Gragg I should hope so; the man was unabashedly lying and on the same news channel that reported it, they then started gushing about his latest recommendation.
+Evan Gragg He alluded to Oz's fame and lack of expertise with "alt medicine" when the doctor was asked where he got his degree (from Oprah)
+Evan Gragg Doctor Oz used to give real advice when he was on Oprah. But now that he has to give people half an hour of content once a week, his show has deteriorated dramatically. He really gives out either pseudoscience or advice based upon minimal evidence. He has also has become the king of exaggerators.
+Anders Ledell From what I understand, Dr Oz was a renowned surgeon. It is sad that he sold out to the Oprah crowd.
+RickMakes He was great. Now he spreads nonsense
I have heard of a case of scurvy at an university because some students thought just Pizza and energy drinks would be a healthy diet 😂.
Max Power - Doubtful.
Press Y for doubt
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Even pizza has tomatoes tomatoes have vitamin C, most energy drinks probably contain vitamin C
@@yeetman6955 Have you ever played LA Noire? It's Press X to doubt.
"Like, just eat a lemon, ever." LMAO! I wish he was a doctor
so none of this explains why not to take vitamins. Most overdoses require excessive amounts to achieve. It is very hard to overdose.
It is easy to seem smart when you surround yourself with actors playing dumb. Its really annoying. He seems to try and flaunt his knowledge. Good thing he has a script to make him appear intelligent.
+BeginToThink yes ikr there have been people who have been put into remission of cancer with huge amounts of vitamin D, but the FDA says the only thing that helps cancer is Chemo and Radiation which only works 2-3% of the time
+BeginToThink Thank you! I am getting sick of this kind of humor on the TV and online. Both right wing and left leaning TV shows love bringing on the most absurd people to argue with, and then when the person says nothing, they just laugh and say "That's who disagrees with us! Isn't it obvious! He's wrong!" And people actually think that it is educational.
I like vitamin C supplements. They taste good.
+Noah Weisbrod
And those are water-soluble, so too much of them doesn't even matter at all.
+carultch Actually, it does not prevent kidney stones, I was wrong.
+Noah Weisbrod And that's all they are, candy.
Alladin 550 Actually, I was wrong.
+Maxim T Potvin Actually no that was disproven vitamin C actually prevents and dissolves kidney stones you are giving out faulty information. orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v09n05.shtml
The only vitamin I use on a semi-regular basis is D vitamin. When you're prone to seasonal depression and live in an area that gets only few hours of sunlight a day during the dead of winter, it's a good addition. I suffer from moderate-to-severe depression anyway, so I'd rather be safe, because so often I've gone to school/work when it's pitch black and left when it's dark again, without catching a single ray of sunshine the entire day. It's full on night time by like 3pm.
Should I show my health teacher this?
Rivas yes
Rivas so, what happened?
Tyler Trinh He liked it, and even showed it to one of his classes.
Yeeeees!!! Do it!
Rivas yes
So much money wasted at GNC....
But I love gmc cars
+Smiles Yeah. So that ig Pharma who has been trying to patent Vitamins for the past 50 years can tell you vitamins aren't good for you. But their toxic pills are. Don't eat better and equalize your system. Let us shoot toxic waste into your blood stream until your tongue falls out.
What he said in this video is factually inaccurate. Sad that people will actually believe it.
On another note. Did you hear that Marijuana kills rain cells?...
+JRMCNEA I can provide anecdotal evidence that marijuana is bad for your brain. Just talk to my wife's siblings for a half hour or so and you'll believe it too.
My last display name was too long
Dumb people exist. Don't blame it on weed.
+My last display name was too long While under the influence of marijuana, it does negatively impact the functionality of your mind. However, so do many over-the-counter medicines, and they are not "bad for your brain." This isn't to say marijuana is fine for you, but currently, all that's known for sure is that it can help a lot with some mental disorders (most commonly depression) and smoking it is bad for your lungs.
I just started this series and im starting to doubt that im breathing correctly...
Some people live in food deserts in merica.Vitamins are needed.
I think it would've been good to at least make a passing reference to fringe examples where vitamins are necessary. For instance, I moved to Interior Alaska and in the winters we see very little sunlight. This contributes to lethargy, depression, and higher production of cortisol levels (not to mention the way it ruins your circadian rhythm.)
Vitamin D helps tremendously with this.
There have been incidents of scurvy in the student community in my town. Students who live off frozen pizza and actually remove the little pieces of peppers that are on them. Vitamin supplements are useless, unless your diet itself is useless.
Sushiirull Not much.. not enough. It's extreme in any case. You can't eat any fruit, can't drink any juice.
You forgot to mention the Beta Carotine crisis! People went crazy about Beta Carotine and then it started destroying their heart valves! 0.0
don't forget omega 3 fish oil, very similar situation.
that because people were taking excess fish oil , a small bit doesn't hurt you
or the guy who died from ingesting an insane amount of carrot juice
Interesting fact about B carotene. It was found that people who had more B carotene in their blood were healthier (less cancer + heart disease I think), and then people drew the conclusion that B carotene itself must be good and you should supplement with it. However the higher levels of B carotene in the blood were from eating a greater amount of fruits and vegetables, which was the real benefit. Like you said B carotene supplements themselves were found to be harmful.
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Medical science doesn't reject supplements completely, but their recommended uses are just very limited. Like you say; if you are lacking a certain nutrient, just eat more fruit. If that still doesn't work, see a doctor.
The most unrealistic part of this show is how open minded the characters are
"It's bad, you know it."
*Micheal Jackson Music Plays*
"just eat a lemon...ever"
My former boss, who was a doctor, actually brought some vitamin C to the office during winter to prevent his employees from getting sick. I was quite disappointed about a doctor not knowing his stuff and took none of the vitamin C. Although very rare, vitamin deficiencies can also occur in industrialized countries, but if there is one vitamin we really got enough of, it's vitamin C. That shit is in everything. It's even used as preservative agent in many processed food...
2:22 WHY ARE YOU BOOING ME IM RIGHT
2:50
"And the only person in history to be awarded two nobel prizes"
**laughs in Marie Curie**
Solo is the key word there
0:44 why isn't that security guard doing anything?
Magic TV powers
"candy shaped like cartoon characters" hey that sounds like a drug abused in my country! Ecstasy pills!
so, it's not that vitamins are good for you, but instead a lack of a vitamin is bad for you.
"no one needs to load up on cats"
looks down at kitten to left
looks at cat at feet
looks at circle of cats, closing in on me
i don't think you understand.
fur... is in my blood
i cough up hairball on a regular basis
hack cough choke
I take vitamin supplements because I have a poor diet lol
Love adam ruins everything. Totally exposes the false truths in our daily lives.
Everyone in my state is getting sick rn. Including my brokers, girlfriend, dad, dad's girlfriend, grandma, girlfriends parents, etc. I've been around all of them and I haven't gotten sick. I usually get sick this time of year. But I've been taking vitamin C and D dialy. Correlation? Probably
The nurse guy is hot.
He's in Gossip Girl for a while
are you gay
Yes
There is really nothing more to add to this thread.
Timothy Kimmel gayyyyy!!!!
Do carbonated water next
+Joe Dirt Why?
+Joe Dirt some people like it bubly
+guy random (someone with common sense) yeah, what is it about carbonated water? are there people that think it's healthy or something?
carbonated water= sparkling water
+Lelouch Vi Britannia Isn't it just for the bubbly effect nothing else?
2:35
Why are your booing me?
I'm right.
Do a frickin Google search this guy is lying.
Vitamins are only good when you’re severely lacking and your doctor tells you to take specific ones.
Vitamins supplements are not completely useless. They do nothing if you live a healthy life and eat normally, but if you lack some vitamins because of your lifestyle, supplements can be good. For example, I am almost always in the dark, and not getting sunlight means producing less vitamin D, supplements can help with that.
+Metsuryu He said exactly this in the video
ThePharphis
I guess I missed it.
Why are you always in the dark. Are you a vampire? Or batman?
Rashotcake Or you live in the frozen north with only 4 hours of foggy light every day
+Metsuryu They most certainly do not "do nothing" (sorry for the double negative). Anything in excess can be extremely harmful, especially when it comes to anything that your body needs, such as nutrients.
As with most things, this holds true for healthy people! If you are not a healthy person and have a deficiency, take the vitamin you're low on!
I take a supplement of vitamin D, because I don't eat fish and don't go out into the sun, as often as I probably should.
me too, i have dark half moons under my eyes
Vitamin D is different than other vitamins, as it doesn't really come from the diet, and is more of a hormone than anything. I would definitely take vitamin D if you don't get a lot of sun.
Taking Vitamin D does almost nothing- it needs to be turned into its active state by UV exposure, so you need the sun (or other appropriate UV light). You can't ingest the active form. That's why you'll find photos of submarine crew being exposed to artificial UV light- they need it- tablets won't do a thing... probably:
Vitamins A, D, E and K are all lipid (fat) soluble, which means your body can store them easily. That means they're the vitamins you really have to watch out for overdosing on if you are taking supplements. It's probably good that those tablets you're eating are actually doing nothing.
Jeff Thomson I've never heard of that before.
Do you have some links for some more info about it? :)
That's not accurate... I've had my active vitamin D tested before and after supplementing and it definitely changed. You're not going to "overdose" on vitamin D by taking 1000 or 2000 IU a day.
who gave you a medical licence....Oprah🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣that bit would have kill in a John Fetterman ad against Dr,OZ
I love this show :D
+The Octagon Master with Super Saiyan Vader Cruise Yeah, it blows my mind every time.
I know ADAM IS THE BOMB
+Maria Newman as jacob said. it BLOWS his mind everytime LOLOLOL PUNNY....wait i made another pun? SHIT im just PUNISHING You people at this point. Oh god pls halp me.
Frozen Gamer I get it, my mind is my brain and my brain is inside my head and my face is on my head and one activates the oral sex activity by opening one's mouth and does the sexing on the reproductive part of one's body. It all makes sense now.
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I've been really sick and my sister started making my family take these gummy vitamins and I've been wondering if that is what got me sick but now it's all cleared up. Thanks Adam!
Molly Allen This guy is full of crap. Im a doctor. Vitamins are very important for immunity. Common cold is caused by virus and immunity can't beat the virus. Learn some basic science before saying shit on youtube or your own tv show. Immunity increases your durability and withstanding power to stop infections and help in curing the same. Yea there is a problem with high levels of vitamins called vitaminosis which is not even lethal but may cause u bowel problems. But u need to take like around 4000mg of vitamins per day to reach that level. This guy is full of shit without even doing his research he tells this. Taking prophylactic vitamins are very important for health in case of women who are menstruating, pregnant and for children without them it causes birthdefects in pregnant women and growth retardation in children which are included in the national immunisation schedule. If it was fake why would WHO would put vitamins in NIS. This guy is full of bullcrap doing everything for the like and follow. He conveniently talks only of flu. This guy is fake and manipulates the facts.
My mom still watches dr. oz even though I tell her that it's mainly a for profit thing. Idek what to do at this point lmao
2:32 "Why you booing me, I'm right!"
When it panned to Linus 😂😂
Actually, the value of nutritional supplements is just a little bit more complex than that portrayed here. Knowing something about this issue, and seeing its vast over-simplification, causes me to wonder about some of the OTHER Adam ruins everything videos.
yeah his videos are good but often leave out a few things that are legit just to sell something is "totally" shocking or mind blowing. He does not aim for nuance it is harder to sell. He plays on the outrage, shock or the people who already agree with him.
His videos are normally the ones you get in those "i told you so" moments because he is somehow an authority on things...
so what is missing? He didn't say anything about prescribed vitamins or eating foods. Just about megadoses and vitamin C being a cure all.
@@KyleJCustodio it´s simple, most of the people that come here didn´t really see this video, and the others who claim "this video is wrong" and things like that... didn´t really analyse it well, imagine that I told you something as "Plants have some human senses", you´ll inmediatly think about something as pain or any sort of things similar... But actually they have some common senses that we don´t really know about.
But imagine that you inmediatly make all the things that i told you in a generalisation, and claim that i´m wrong because plants can feel as we do... Then you have comments like this.
Yeah, vitamin suplements are most complex, but he´s not talking about te complexity, he´s talking about how most of the corporations that make them, are just telling you a lie. Vitamins are good, Overdosis are bad, think that you can´t get the correct vitamins of your food (without seeing a doctor) IT´S GOD DAMN FREAKING WRONG.
Sorry, i have a lapsus.
Thank you for including the part about the vitamins that can make you sick! I have IIH & I use to take vitamin A supplements when I was young (I didn't know any better,I thought it was good for my eyes & skin) & my Dr thinks that that's a small part of why I have IIH now (its caused by a lot of small things going wrong all at once).
Emphasis on "a small part". Vitamins A D E and K can be stored in the body as fat. The others, you simple pee out. So yes, you can theoretically accumulate levels so high it can cause harm. You'd have to eat about x30 the recommended supplements everyday for at least a year. Tablets are usually around 2,500 mcg I believe? You'd need 10,000 per kilogram.
@@pyromaniac37238 It's like you rephrased exactly what I said to try to say something new. Lmao
@@KelseysWonderland11 was trying to make the point that you have to try REALLY hard to take enough vitamins to harm your body and you shouldn't just blanket vitamin supplements as harmful and a marketing ploy, but sure...what do med students know.
My take on vit A C D E supplements, is the synthetic forms can be useful temporarily, but vit A C D E complexes food sourced, are an irreplaceable go to for sustaining health.
3:40 i love this camera movement like if they were on House md or something like that
Well vitamin c helps you absorb iron which your body needs for it's white blood platelets. That said it only helps if it's the limiting factor on your immune system, issues such as stress or sleep deprivation can totally ruin your immune system and vitamin c and iron can't compensate for that.
Oh and it will only ever help you to not catch a cold not do anything to cure it. I don't even think hospital grade immunoboosters will help you much when it comes to that.
But excess vitamin C is excreted
Adam: Who gave you a medical license?
Then Adam, w/o a med license, proceeds to talk about medical issues...
This is fallacious, the difference is, that Adam does not pretend to be an expert. And he is constantly citing sources.
If I, as a biologist, suddenly tell you that elephants don't exist, you know that's a crock of dung. The fact is that Adam has done his research and sources people WHO DO HAVE THOSE QUALIFICATIONS and have proven that bad medical practise is behind this information. This means he doesn't need a medical license to tell you that some people that do have one are absolute lying hacks.
"When I take Vitamin C , I feel better!" -Awwwwww! LOL This statement is soo true! hahaha!
Misleading. A daily multivitamin is worth taking unless you are obsessed with tracking the precise nutrients in everything you eat. It can help mitigate slight nutritional deficiencies in your diet.
2:45 LinusTechTips
i could use more cats. have 2 already
Urban Kitsune thats a dangerous road to follow fam
Get more cats... I personally want a million cats at least... no, a billion cats!!! Muhahahahhaha!!!
I had the same situation and adopted two more, i'm in heaven
Captain is this true?
wait wrong website
lol
Here's a potato.
KIBRSIFR now i just need a dickbutt and i'll be able to make youtube great again
Yup. * Flys away *
That is if our gracious queen permits it
Vitamin C doesn't care the cold but if you have a good intake of it it will prevent you from getting one