Do you believe in Vitamin 'therapy?'

Most recently, at my Endocrinologist appointment, I came prepared with some questions

to ask the Doctor. I like to benefit my health, so I always have a 'running list' of questions written on a notepad that lives in my kitchen. Yeah... I have hit 30 years old, so everything must be written down at this point ... 

Now I have always been a big supporter of vitamins....Reading about them, taking them, telling my friends about them, my two sisters, the cat...basically everyone!  At one time, a man I was dating told me casually one day, that he never took a multi-vitamin before.  WHAT?! So there I was at the grocery store the following week, buying him a bottle of Men's multi-vitamins demanding that he took one daily.  A little extreme, maybe? I have to admit - I did not think so.

On my recent trip to the store, I saw Diabetes Vitamin 'packs.'  A box that contained 60 packs of vitamins that claim to support eye health, heart health, and energy support for Diabetics.  I almost reached to buy these, but thought I would ask my doctor first.  A fast Google search on these, and there were several people claiming there blood sugar levels improved and they had more energy.  Could it really be true?

..I posed the question to my Doctor, what vitamins should I be taking for Diabetes Health?  Without hesitation, he replied with 'you can eat well ...like broccoli.  Do you like broccoli?'  He also said if you were not deficient in a vitamin or mineral that the body already had, 'you just pee it all out.'  I asked again, and he said a simple Multi was 'plenty enough.'    

Well ok .... Did I also mention my Primary Care doctor said the same thing about Probiotics one day?  She did not give them much credit at all, and said 'you can take them if they make you feel better, but you do not have to.' 

So, oh well ....I definitely respect the opinions of those in the medical field and went to school for 30+ years but, alas, I will still be taking my daily multi, fish oil, D3, and probiotics as I like to believe they do something good for me.  I definitely believe they are right as to food and exercise playing a huge role... but, do you believe in Vitamin Therapy?