Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Vitamin B supplements against mosquito bites... fact or myth?

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Vitamin B Supplements Against Mosquito Bites... Fact or Myth?

Dear Reader,

The placebo effect might relieve a headache or reduce depression symptoms... but could it actually repel mosquitoes?

My friend Terri told me that when she was young she used to get "eaten alive" every summer by mosquitoes. But one summer, before she left for summer camp, her mother gave her a bottle of vitamin B1 supplements and told her to take them every day to repel mosquitoes.

That summer...not a bite. Not one single mosquito bite.

One standing strong, or not...

Terri's experience is not unusual. A few years ago, I told you about an HSI member named Howard who wrote to share a similar success story using B1 and garlic tabs.

But is there any real evidence to back up these claims?

When I went looking, I found many testimonials like Terri's and Howard's, but just one study. And this appears to be the only human study, because references to it (and it alone) cropped up again and again.

The US study comes from the University of Wisconsin, published five years ago in the Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association.

Results: A supplement of B complex (not just B1) had "no effect" in repelling mosquitoes.

But instead of asking all the subjects to spend a couple of summer evening hours sitting on a lake shore, the researchers collected "volatile skin components," and exposed these samples to mosquitoes in glass vials.

So it's not exactly a "gold standard" study.

Until we get better research, you can't go wrong testing a B1 supplement for yourself. This nutrient — also known as thiamin or thiamine — helps maintain nervous system and muscle function, and plays a role in carbohydrate metabolism.

The recommended daily allowance (RDA) for B1 is 1.2 mg for adult males and 1.1 mg for adult females. Which is actually hilarious — as if that thin slice of a milligram would make the slightest difference.

B1 is quickly eliminated from the body, so most people will be in no danger if they significantly exceed the RDA. In fact, HSI Panellist Dr. Allan Spreen, notes that many supplements contain as much as 100mg of B1.

And a side note from Dr. Spreen: "1.2 mg wouldn't even be detected in blood work the day you took it; that's why it's easy to prove that 'vitamins don't work' in controlled studies using RDA amounts — because it's true!"

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Another mainstream "no brainer" bites the dust.

A recent issue of the VERY mainstream Journal of the American Medical Association carries a study that tested low dose aspirin (100mg per day) against placebo in 3,350 healthy subjects between the ages of 50 and 75.

On average, each subject participated for more than eight years.

Results: No statistically significant difference was found between the two groups in fatal or nonfatal coronary events, strokes, angina, transient heart attack or all- cause mortality.

In short, low-dose aspirin use produced virtually no benefits.

But adverse events tell another story.

The researchers write: "Any effect of aspirin on cardiovascular events needs to be balanced against the potential for harm. Although numbers were small, the trial results suggested an increased incidence of major haemorrhage and gastrointestinal ulcer, although not severe anaemia, in the aspirin group, and more participants in the aspirin group than in the placebo group had fatal intracranial adverse events."

So...what do you think? Will this be the turning point? From now on, will doctors tell their patients to forget about a daily aspirin because it's likely to do more harm than good?

Don't hold your breath.

Doctors! Television medical pundits! Read your JAMA! All the aspirin evidence you need is right there in front of you.

To Your Good Health,

Jenny Thompson
HSI Director


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Sources: "Testing Vitamin B as a Home Remedy Against Mosquitoes" Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association, Vol. 21, No. 2, June 2005, bioone.org

"Aspirin for Prevention of Cardiovascular Events in a General Population Screened for a Low Ankle Brachial Index" Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 303, No. 9, 3/3/10, jama.ama-assn.org

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