Are there any diseases or disease processes where the addition of vitamin supplements has been found to be beneficial for intervention, prevention or health promotion? Please identify the dietary supplement by its chemical name, and tell us about the conducted studies, as well as the proposed ‘mode of action’ how the vitamin exerts its beneficial effect in the human body. Also note if any side effects were reported in the study(ies).

Please take a look at the attached article; you might notice that the sources cited range from 2003 to 2009. Since it’s now 2019, let’s take a look at the current research to answer the following questions together as a class: According to current research studies (from peer-reviewed journals)

When you find a vitamin & disease process or health promotion aspect that is of interest to you, please review the according studies and share your findings in this discussion forum.