megavitamin

American  

[meg-uh-vahy-tuh-min, meg-uh-vit-uh-min] / ˈmɛg əˌvaɪ tə mɪn, ˈmɛg əˌvɪt ə mɪn /

adjective

1. of, relating to, or using very large amounts of vitamins.

   megavitamin therapy.

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noun

1. megavitamins, doses of vitamins much larger than the recommended dietary allowances.

Etymology

Origin of megavitamin

First recorded in 1965–70; mega- + vitamin

Example Sentences

Respected innovators, organizers, and activists embraced quack alternative therapies like megavitamin doses, special diets, and something called “chelation,” “in which an individual is dosed with drugs that remove accumulated heavy metals from the body.”

From Slate

The title of another book, written with Professor Stare in 1983, was emblematic of Dr. Whelan’s consuming passion and sometimes insouciant approach: “The One-Hundred-Percent Natural, Purely Organic, Cholesterol-Free, Megavitamin, Low-Carbohydrate Nutrition Hoax.”

From New York Times

No need for megavitamin therapy however.

From Seattle Times

I recall my parents in the 1970s trying out a range of therapies and various diets for my younger brother Noah, a low-functioning adult autistic: everything from chiropractic adjustments to megavitamin doses to copper bracelets.

From Time

Just two months after leaving a Connecticut sanitarium for treatment of psychiatric problems, Joan Kennedy, 38, wife of Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy, has checked into a private clinic at Capistrano by the Sea, Calif, that specializes in megavitamin therapy.

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