[B Knotts]

I realize that. But there's a lot more money in patent medicines than in vitamins.

[Pharmboy]

But BELIEVE me, the pharma industry does not spend one MOMENT worrying about herbals or vitamins or minerals (unless they were bulk manufacturers like Hoffmann La Roche had been)--vitamins and pharmaceuticals exist in two different universes. There is no plot, no conspiracy, etc., against the vitamin companies by pharma.

I have been in the pharma business for a long time (and worked in pharma nutrition for ten years also) and I take one Centrum Silver per week, an extra few grams of folic acid every week but 3 tablets/day of vitamin D (GNC's "Vitamin D 700") as cholecalciferol. FWIW.