megavitamin therapy 宏量維他命治療法

megavitamin therapy
繁：宏量維他命治療法
简：宏量维他命治疗法

有些維他命只需要小量，就可以幫助預防癌症。有人因此推論，服用大量維他命  (所謂宏量維他命治療megavitamin therapy)  可以預防甚至治療癌症。這大概是以為，既然一點維他命即有此功效，多吃些效果必然更好。可惜並沒有科學證據說明，大量服食維他命有益健康。

香港癌症基金會（2016年）。癌症與輔助療法，取自 https://www.cancer-fund.org/upload/booklets/file/C_C.pdf

According to Dr. James O. Woolliscroft, an internist at the University of Michigan who studies both the benefits and risks of megavitamin therapy, oral megadoses of the B-complex vitamins thiamin, riboflavin, B12, pantothenic acid and biotin are not known to be toxic.

Personal Health; Vitamin Therapy: Toxic Side Effects of Massive Doses. (1984, March 14). New York Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/1984/03/14/garden/personal-health-vitamin-therapy-toxic-side-effects-of-massive-doese.html?pagewanted=all