Despite its enormous political clout the pharmaceutical industry is subject to the rigors of testing for safety and effectiveness prior releasing their drugs on the market. Not so for the makers of vitamin supplements and homeopathic remedies thanks to the 1994 Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act. In an ironic twist, those chugging down vitamin and mineral pills to enhance their health instead may be consuming toxic agents. Some nutrients like vitamin B6 don’t take much to reach the threshold of megadose. For more on this story click here, and “don’t forget to take your vitamins.”
Sian Philips brilliantly portrayed Livia, wife of Caesar Augustus, in the BBC series I, Claudius (1976), in which Livia is a serial killer by means of poison.
Tags: I Claudius, poison, supplements, vitamins
April 12, 2008 at 7:28 pm |
Thats some very deep stuff. I didnt know that about the vitamins… Thanks for the post. Looking forward to more.