Can dietary supplements end up making you less healthy?
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The results from the experiments and survey demonstrated that participants who believed they had taken dietary supplements felt invulnerable to health hazards, thus leading them to engage in health-risk behaviors. Specifically, participants in the perceived supplement use group expressed less desire to engage in exercise and more desire to engage in hedonic activities, preferred a buffet over an organic meal (Experiment 1), and walked less to benefit their health (Experiment 2) than the control group.
I take an inexpensive multivitamin and fish oil daily. From my reading, unless you have specific health issues or athletic performance goals, you don’t need much more than that.
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