Vitamin C is one of skincare’s most popular ingredients because it’s proven to protect skin from photodamage and pollution, help brighten dark marks, and stimulate collagen production. Pretty much anyone who knows anything about skincare will tell you it’s on their ingredient shortlist. But let’s say you just… don’t want …
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Most experts recommend that pregnant women take a daily supplement of 400 units of vitamin D. Now a randomized clinical trial suggests that a much larger dose may be beneficial for children’s bone health. The study, in JAMA Pediatrics, randomized 517 women to take either a 2,400-unit vitamin D supplement …
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High levels of Vitamin B12 may be too much of a good thing. Vitamin B12 is an essential nutrient, important in nerve and blood cell health, and most people obtain enough of it in food. Those with B12 deficiency, or an inability to absorb it, can use supplements. But a …
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