10 Common Myths About Multivitamins Everybody Believes (6 of 6)

Myth 10: My bottle of expired multivitamins works just as well.

Those expiration dates that your vitamins come with aren’t there because you’re a calendarphile, or whatever they call people who have a fondness for the passage of time. Their potency really does diminish over time. So if their best days are behind them, it’s best to pitch them and buy yourself another bottle.