This morning I get an email from Founder of Vemma, BK Boreyko. This is quite a long but important email. Here I wish to share with you the original content as below.
Hello Vemma team!
If you happened to watch the news, read a newspaper, or visit an online news service last night, you may have caught one or both of the stories about vitamins being bad for you.
Let me first start off this very important topic with one thought: Sickness is BIG business. The profits surrounding treating people’s sicknesses are astronomical compared to the wellness industry. As with any news organization, the more captivating the headline, the scarier it is and the more attention it receives. The headlines yesterday about multivitamins increasing mortality never mentioned many details and glaring flaws of the study, or that this study showed just a 2.4% increase. And in vitamin E prostate cancer risk story, they neglect to mention a synthetic form of vitamin E was used. Now, some vitamins function identically in the body whether they’re natural or synthetic, but vitamin E is not one of them. Virtually every health professional knows this fact… yet it wasn’t discussed, just that vitamin E was bad. This point really hit home when my wife said after watching the news that I better take vitamin E out of the Vemma formula.
Naturally, since my entire family takes Vemma, I wanted Dr. Wang, our Chief Science Officer, to “peel back the onion” a bit on these two hot topics and give me a few details in language I can understand and pass on to you. Here are a few points of interest, along with an article that puts the multivitamin “observational study” into proper perspective. (An observational study simply means the participants filled out a survey and self-reported their diet, lifestyle and supplement use, which leaves room for the possibility of reporting errors. This is not a clinical study like the Gold Standard we’ve performed on Vemma, which I’ll talk about more in a minute.)
· The study featured a majority of white, post-menopausal females living in rural areas, which doesn’t necessarily translate into a typical urban lifestyle or diet.