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The next time you hear some nay-saying doctor claiming that there is no evidence that vitamins actually do anything, show him this:

A new study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that multivitamins can keep you younger, longer. It shows that people who take a daily multivitamin had younger DNA.

The study found that those who took a multivitamin daily had 5.1% longer telomeres than non-users.¹

Telomeres are the key to aging. And it’s not just your life span that’s affected… Short telomeres dramatically boost your risk of serious diseases. One study of 60- to 75-year-olds showed those with short telomeres had a 300% higher death rate from heart disease and an 800% higher death rate from infectious diseases.²

In case you haven’t been following our story on the amazing advances in telomere biology, telomeres are part of your DNA. They can be found in every cell in your body, and are critical to youthful cell function. But as your cells divide, your telomeres get shorter… and the shorter your telomeres, the older your cells behave. (See my article in the October 14 issue of THB.)

Raise your champagne flute, and clink, Cheers! It is the time of year to celebrate, and most likely your holiday festivities will include alcohol. The holidays are the time for gaiety and celebration. So enjoy!

However, once the holidays are over and we are all settling back into our routine, it’s important to remember — when it comes to alcohol, moderation is the key.

Don’t assume that because a mineral isn’t being featured in this article that it’s not important. Manganese, potassium, iodine, molybdenum, boron — all play an important role in health. But most high-quality multiple mineral formulas will contain enough of them for most purposes. However, like all the nutrients on this list, there are therapeutic uses for some that go beyond what you can get in a normal multiple, even a high-quality one.

Ah, it was so simple back in 1941. That’s when the first RDAs (Recommended Daily Allowances) for vitamins first came out. Clear little easy-to-understand numbers that let you know how much of a vitamin you needed to prevent a deficiency disease (like rickets or beri-beri). It was the vitamin equivalent of having three television stations to choose from. I like to call the RDAs “Minimum Wage Nutrition”.

Then people began to get the idea that vitamins might do more than just prevent scurvy and rickets. They might actually have a role in preventive medicine and general health — helping to stave off cancer, heart disease, osteoporosis… actually, just about any condition you can name.

If you’ve been reading the mainstream media recently, you might have come to the conclusion that vitamins are the most dangerous things you could possibly consume. Headlines declare antioxidants to be useless, vitamin C to be dangerous and vitamin E to be deadly! Nutrition, it seems, is suddenly under attack.

For years, a major argument between conventional dieticians and forward-thinking health professionals and nutritionists was over the following question: Do I need to take vitamins?