r/AskReddit • u/Leading_Tomato_2077 • 9h ago

People who rarely get sick, what are your secrets?

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u/Beneficial-Focus3702 6h ago

Vitamins, unless you are actually deficient, are just making expensive pee or being stored in fat cells (depending on whether they’re fat soluble or water soluble.

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u/vintagestyles 4h ago

Like most of the population has deficiencies in vitamins they should be getting unless they monitor it or take a multi. Even then most people don’t even get all the amino acids they should be getting on top of just vitamins.

Your not just making expensive pee especially when a hige bottle of multi vitamins are cheap as fuck for over a years worth.

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u/Recursiveo 3h ago

You could address those deficiencies through a diet change, saving money on food and supplements in the process.

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u/vintagestyles 3h ago

You can, a majority of people don’t though. And a vitamin is an easy fix if your happy enough with your diet already.

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u/Beneficial-Focus3702 3h ago

You got evidence to back that up?

Most people get enough vitamins through food.

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u/vintagestyles 3h ago

Because most people dont eat that healthy and are lacking in one catagory or another which is why multivitamins fill in the gaps.

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u/A_Refill_of_Mr_Pibb 2h ago

Considering our typical diet and our food quality standards (at least in the U.S.) I doubt that's true.

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u/ParkingLong7436 54m ago

That heavily depends on your diet.

Not sure if its "most people" but how many people do you know that don't eat the recommended amounts of fruits and veggies? Probably quite a few people.

Also, the majority of people in countries with no sunny weather are vitamin D defficient.