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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 9730092" data-attributes="member: 19675">There’s probably an unconscious, almost instinctual preference for “natural” over “man-made” stuff.  Even for trained professionals.I mean, virtually every doctor I’ve had a discussion with about diet opined about getting our nutrition from natural sources before going into supplemental sources of nutrition.  I take D & K, largely because other meds I take cause me deficiencies of those 2 vitamins, and I simply couldn’t eat enough food to make up the deficiencies.  (I did ask.)And it’s well known that nutritional deficiencies are associated with a lot of preventable afflictions, like certain kinds of blindness, scurvy, anemias and so forth.  For some of these, taking supplements is an easy fix.And in medicine/ healthcare- as in many other facets of life- we know that prevention is almost always cheaper than remedies.But that means unnecessary megadosing is an easy trap to fall into.  If BOB’S eyes got better taking lots of vitamin A (because he doesn’t absorb it well), then if I take extra, I’ll prevent problems with my eyes in the future.Of course, that ignores the reality that too much of vitamin A can cause things like liver damage.</blockquote>