Are Vitamins Really Good For You

"To all my little Hulkamaniacs, say your prayers, take your vitamins and you will never go wrong." - Hulk Hogan"

Could the Hulkster my childhood hero be wrong. A new study that was conducted by Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences found that people have a high risk of mortality if they have low levels and high levels of Vitamin D in their blood stream.

Darshana Durup, a PhD student points out that "We have had access to blood tests from a quarter of a million Copenhageners. We found higher mortality in people with a low level of vitamin D in their blood, but to our surprise, we also found it in people with a high level of vitamin D. We can draw a graph showing that perhaps it is harmful with too little and too much vitamin D".

So I guess Hulk Hogan was wrong when he said take your vitamins and you will never go wrong. The truth is you can go wrong is you take too many vitamins. The sad thing is some people taking vitamins to improve their health might be inadvertently causing harm to their own body because their not vitamin deficient in the first place.

Most Americans aren't vitamin deficient according to the nutrition report put out by the Center of Disease Control & Prevention. The nationwide survey which lasted from 1999-2006 found that only 10% of Americans are deficient in certain vitamins.

Want to know for sure if your vitamin deficient? Your can get a vitamin profile test performed by your physician to see if your deficient in certain vitamins like Vitamins A, Vitamin D, folate, iron, iodine etc. You can find out what vitamins your lacking and what vitamins you can stop taking altogether.