Mega Multivitamin Use Risks Prostate Cancer - CME Teaching Brief® - MedPage Today

Mega Multivitamin Use Risks Prostate Cancer - CME Teaching Brief® - MedPage Today:

"Men who take multi-vitamin supplements more than once a day are twice as likely to die of prostate cancer as men who never take supplements, researchers confirmed."

This is just another study drawing into question the use of antioxidant vitamins. Why? No one knows for sure but one suggested reason in the medpage article:

""Reactive oxygen species in moderate concentrations are essential mediators of reactions by which the body gets rid of unwanted cells. Thus, if administration of antioxidant supplements decreases free radicals, it may interfere with essential defensive mechanisms for ridding the organism of damaged cells, including those that are precancerous and cancerous.""

Very interesting. Stay tuned.