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Nikki Hart: Nutritionist on the debate over the necessity of daily multi-vitamins · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Daily multi vitamin might be doing actually nothing to help you.
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  Speaker 1: A British GP and medical journalist is slammed the industry
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  Speaker 1: and a piece in the Telegraph over in the UK,
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  Speaker 1: he says the only benefit the pills provide is very
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  Speaker 1: expensive urine and can I add very smelly too. And
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  Speaker 1: Nicky Hert is a nutritionist and joins US Live this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Hey Nikki, Hey morning Ryan.
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  Speaker 1: Is it snake oil or does it work only in
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  Speaker 1: certain circumstances.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there are some groups in our population that might
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  Speaker 2: need some vitamins minerals, and we're talking things like so
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  Speaker 2: if a woman is planning to be pregnant or is pregnant,
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  Speaker 2: she might need some extra iron, she might need folic acid,
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  Speaker 2: that kind of thing, but that needs to be monitored
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  Speaker 2: by her maternity caregiver. For the general person, though, if
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  Speaker 2: they're eating a balanced diet, they really shouldn't need a
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  Speaker 2: multi vitamin.
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  Speaker 1: What about people who are irondeficient?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so that needs to be tested for because you
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  Speaker 2: know what tends to happen as people's kind of self medicate.
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  Speaker 2: They go, oh, look, i'm feeling tired. I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: pop down and grab some iron. But what can actually
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  Speaker 2: happen is you could have a thing called hemochromatosis, which
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  Speaker 2: is iron overload, and you might not know you have
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  Speaker 2: that genetic predisposition. So if you took iron and you
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  Speaker 2: will already iron overloaded, you could actually be making the
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  Speaker 2: situation with okay, So it's really important not to do that.
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  Speaker 1: How side of iron, Like if I feel if I
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  Speaker 1: feel like I could do with a few vitamins, is
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  Speaker 1: their harm and you know, and you've got loads of money,
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  Speaker 1: is there harm in taking them?
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  Speaker 2: Well, there's two types of vitamins. There's water soluble and
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  Speaker 2: there's non water soalt soluble vitamins and minerals. Now what
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  Speaker 2: that means is some can actually pass through the urine
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  Speaker 2: because they go through the water. But some of them
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  Speaker 2: are fat soluble vitamins, which means they can't. So A, D,
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  Speaker 2: E and K are fat soluble and they go through
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  Speaker 2: your liver and they can't pass through the ur yourn.
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  Speaker 2: So look, it's really it's a food first philosophy. I
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  Speaker 2: reckon you can't get any harm eating food, but there
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  Speaker 2: could be harm and taking copious quantities of vitamins and
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  Speaker 2: min orth that you simply donate.
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  Speaker 1: How often would I need to eat oranges to get
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  Speaker 1: my vitamin C.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, like that's the thing at this time
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  Speaker 2: of the year is wintery time, right, and so everybody goes, oh,
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  Speaker 2: I need to boost the vitamin C. If you just
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  Speaker 2: had an orange or akiwi fruit, most days you'd have
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  Speaker 2: probably ample vitamin C in your diet because you're going
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  Speaker 2: to get it from other things as well. So I
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  Speaker 2: don't think we need to go about busily doing all
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  Speaker 2: sorts of bits and pieces and going down to your
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  Speaker 2: pharmacy to grab or whatever you think you need. Well,
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  Speaker 2: in fact, I actually just eat an orange. It'd be
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  Speaker 2: so much easier, cheaper.
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  Speaker 1: Thank Youth Nutrition. It's good to have you on the show.
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