Are There Longevity Vitamins, Like There Are Survival Vitamins?
What we know as “essential vitamins and minerals” are compounds whose absence has been observed to be immensely detrimental or even fatal to humans. Think of death by scurvy (vitamin C deficiency) or pellagra (niacin deficiency). But an important question to ask for each essential vitamin and mineral is: “over what timeframe do detrimental effects of deficiency manifest themselves?” More