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Can Vitamin Supplements cause weight gain?Updated a year ago

If you’re consuming a safe amount of vitamins and minerals, you shouldn’t experience any weight gain issues. Excess supplementation of vitamins can trigger weight gain in several ways, from increasing fat synthesis, causing insulin resistance, disturbing neurotransmitter metabolism, and inducing epigenetic changes (Zhou, S et al. 2014).

Zhou, S et al. 2014, ‘Excess vitamin intake: An unrecognised risk factor for obesity’, National Library of Medicine,https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3932423/#:~:text=Excess%20vitamins%20may%20also%20affect,metabolism%20and%20inducing%20epigenetic%20changes

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