Alcoholism often makes your body unable to use or store certain vitamins and minerals.

If your doctor approves, it's fine to use over-the-counter vitamins.

Don't use beta-carotene and other antioxidant vitamins before or after angioplasty without the recommendation of your healthcare provider.

Avoid using any medicines, vitamins, or herbs unless your doctor says it's okay.

Talk to your doctor before using any over-the-counter medication, herbal preparation, vitamins, or other nutritional supplements.

She and many other celebrities say they use vitamins, herbs and other homeopathic remedies at work and at home.

Your body uses vitamins for a variety of biological processes, including growth, digestion, and nerve function.

And studies that have used specific vitamins and minerals to treat asthma have been unsuccessful.

Anemia due to AZT was successfully treated using vitamins to stimulate red blood cell production.

"And it uses vitamins and nutrients from food to repair and rebuild," she says.