There is a variety of guidance on what vitamins and supplements people should take for optimal health — especially on social media.
Amina Khan, a pharmacist in the UK and founder of The Pharmacist Beauty, told her nearly 300,000 followers on TikTok about three supplements she would never take.
“I think you’d be surprised at most of them,” he said in the video, which has nearly a million views.
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Read on to find out the three he identified.
1. Sticky vitamins
Although gummy vitamins can taste delicious, Khan considers them “basically just a sugar pill.”
“You might as well take a dessert,” she said. “They’re loaded with sugar and filler ingredients, and I know a lot of you are. [are] bingeing them.”
Pharmacist Amina Khan (@aminathepharmacist)’s viral video has nearly 1 million views and counting. (TikTok/@aminathepharmacist)
Khan warns that sticky supplements can be “very easily overused” and lead to mineral toxicity.
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“Some of these gums don’t even have enough nutrients to affect you,” he added.
2. General multivitamins
A multivitamin is often recommended by general practitioners as a good way to get the recommended daily intake of essential nutrients.
A pharmacist is questioning the effectiveness of multivitamins as well as supplements for hair, skin, and nails. (iStock)
But because multivitamins contain “a little bit of everything,” Khan notes that some doses of each vitamin are “so low that they don’t affect you at all.”
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Khan added that most people don’t need all the vitamins in a multivitamin.
A pharmacist said that the doses of each vitamin in multivitamins are “so low that they don’t affect you at all”. (iStock)
3. Vitamins for hair, skin and nails
These types of vitamins have grown in popularity for hair and nail growth as well as skin cleansing.
According to Khan, grouping the three into one tablet is “not solution-focused”.
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“These are often too low in the most important vitamins to even affect you,” he noted.
Anyone with questions about taking vitamins or supplements should consult a doctor for individual recommendations.
