Folic Acid Supplements Raise Prostate Cancer Risk

Timothy takes too many vitamins

"64 pills a day"

Oh come on. No one needs to take that many vitamins.

One must understand what vitamins are. During evolution we have lost the function of certain enzymes since our diet generally supplied what they produce. We need vitamin C since we lost the enzymes which produce it. Many animals such as dogs don't need vitamin C since they retain the necessary enzymes.

A good diet will supply most everything we need. If you must take a pill, then a simple cheap multivitamin is all that most everyone will need. Save your money.

Why don't they study young people?

I have been taking 64 pills/capsules supplements/vitamins per day for over 4 years now. I started at age 27. As far as I am concerned, men have a near 100% chance of cancer between the ages of 50 & 80, but nobody ever starts young enough for supplements/vitamins to provide help before their visible physical decline.

If you spend 60-70% of your life with a vitamin deficiency, the damage has already been done. At old age, your body doesn't process nutrients correctly anymore because some parts aren't working as well as they did when you were young. And for many, genetics tells us many are naturally born with deficiencies. It is fairly likely that high concentrations of certain supplements would cause higher incidents of cancer in older age groups simply because the body declines with age. High levels may not filter easily nor be processed properly.

It has already been proven that vitamins when supplied early and in proper quantities, to correct for deficiencies, is a life saver, including folic acid, which must be taken as early a pregnancy to see a difference.

Poor studies such as the one mentioned in this article are leading us away from the solution because the control groups have not been diversified properly by age: old, middle, teen, youth, child, baby, pre-birth, pre-pregnancy etc. We should be trying to prevent problems before they begin, during the ages of most growth and healing, in the teens, at childhood, and during fetal development instead of starting way after the signs of old age have already wrecked havoc on the human body.

The Hayflick limit (Leonard Hayflick, 1965) tells us a human cell can only divide 50 times before it becomes cancerous and its functions being failing. When will people learn that every cell division is a huge step towards getting cancer? When will they learn that healthy cell division and nutrition supplement before division and to slow body growth is the best way to prevent rapid cellular decline and the best way to extend your life?

The problem with statistics

Even if we assume that the numbers are golden

the apparent associated risk of folic acid and prostate

cancer has a 1 in 20 chance of being a random

event. The confidence intervals for the two

sets of subjects are very close.

One sentence from the relevant abstract reveals this point.

(That should be inside of the fair usage rules.)

"Among the 643 men who were randomly assigned to placebo or supplementation

with folic acid, the estimated probability of being diagnosed with prostate

cancer over a 10-year period was

9.7% (95% confidence interval [CI] = 6.5% to 14.5%) in the folic acid group and

3.3% (95% CI = 1.7% to 6.4%) in the placebo group

(age-adjusted hazard ratio = 2.63, 95% CI = 1.23 to 5.65, Wald test P = .01)."