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A dietitian's verdict: multivitamins are useless

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Boing Boing reports on dietitian Josie Porter's review of ten popular supplements for the Guardian. One of the largest multivitamin trials did show memory improvement in older adults, but the effect was minimal—roughly a quarter of a word in a twenty-word recall test.

Source: https://boingboing.net/2026/08/05/supplements-quarter-of-...

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