One thing I have always noticed when using online health support groups like NeuroTalk, is that the members are always very good at looking out for each other.

If one person gives advice or makes a suggestion that could be harmful, there is always someone else who posts who offers a correction, a warning, or at the very least they give opposite advice and suggestions.

That's the beauty of having a large group where so many members have a lot of knowledge -- a mistake (bad advice, whatever you want to call it) never sits for very long before it is gently corrected by another member, or before another member offers an oposing viewpoint.


I do agree that when it comes to things like supplements, vitamins, and minerals that members have to be more cautious - the members making the suggestions and the members taking the suggestions. I say this because so many people view vitamins as "harmless" so when they see a suggestion they have the assumption that "it's just a vitamin, I might as well try it it can't hurt me".

Which is untrue - vitamins, minerals and supplements are not "harmless".

In addition, if someone wants to try a vitamin all they have to do is buy it. No doctors prescription needed, no pharmasist there to check for interactions with medications, just walk in the store and buy it like you are buying a gallon of milk.

So because of the general perception that vitamins are "safe and harmless" and because it is so easy to buy and take a vitamin, I do think that there should be more caution used when these things are discussed and suggested... and more caution on both sides, the person seeking advice and the person giving it.

But in the end, each and every person is responsible for their own actions. Whether they are suggesting a vitamin to someone or whether they are accepting someone suggestion to take a vitamin - it is still up to both people to be responsible for their own choices and actions in their own life.