Tuesday, July 06, 2004

Link Between Multivitamins and Asthma

Recent research show a link between infant multivitamin use and asthma.

Researchers do not understand the reason for the link, but I have some thoughts....Mutlivitamins generally don't have any appreciable magnesium because it requires too much space to fit inside the pill or tablet. So they just leave the magnesium out. Yet this leaves the multivitamins with little or no magnesium, yet chalk-full of magnesium antagonists like iron and B vitamins. Since asthma in many people has been linked to a magnesium deficiency, this study makes a lot of sense to me. I stopped giving my kids multivitamins years ago when they were having health issues associated with magensium deficiency and other readers of my CTDS site have reported similar issues with their children.

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