I'm interested in this topic of research because I'm currently going through the process of taking a lot of vitamins to fix the yeast infections in my abdomen from my food allergies. So it made me interested to see what doctors thought about vitamins and pharmaceutical drugs. My research question does not affect my values, it's just something I have interest in. I do believe it is important to know what is good for you to take and what is bad for you to take. My person experience on this topic is that I have always been on pharmaceutical drugs to fix problems in my abdominal area but the doctors never actually knew what was wrong with me. So I tried another doctor. The doctor I went too was a chiropractor/ a specialists in naturally figuring out if you have any food allergies. Instead of pharmaceuticals they gave me vitamins and told me the seven foods I was allergic too and all my abdominal problems and headaches are gone. I'm qualified to write about this because of the amount of research I have done on this topic. 

In this article Dr. Hyman talks about why you should not stop taking your vitamins. 

He gives several examples as to why he believes that we should not stop taking our vitamins. The three examples he gives are it helps you save money, saves peoples lives, and that the scientists research is flawed when it comes to vitamins. After he claims that the research about vitamins is flawed he then gives reasons why he believes that. He is a practicing family physician, an nine-time #1 New York Times bestselling author, and an internationally recognized leader, speaker, educator, and advocate in his field. He has a lot of credit with different books, newspapers, television shows and other things he has been on or written. The major values for this source are how vitamins help people and that pharmaceuticals can be very dangerous for us. 

Throughout this article Dr. Mercola talks about why supplements are under attack. She says that pharmaceutical drugs are 62,000 times more likely to kill you than food supplements. This article explains to you why vitamins, minerals, and herbal supplements are under attack and doctors are telling people not to take them when they have a super safe track record compared to drugs. Dr. Mercola has done a lot of research on the topic and has several articles and his own newsletter on this topic. The values and interests of this source are that she thinks people need to know that vitamins are safe and people should not believe what some doctors are saying about them. 

Throughout the article, Dr. Christiane Northrup explains that pharmaceutical drugs only mask your symptoms at the time they don't actually get rid of the problem. She continues by saying that the more we take these drugs the less effective they are going to be which will eventually lead to a problem. She says that you can't hold nutritional supplements to the same standard as drugs but they are definitely a lot safer. Christiane Northrup is a very intelligent woman who has a M.D. She has many different articles and blogs on the topic of drugs and vitamins. This woman is credible for the article because she has done a lot of research and knows what she is talking about. The major values and interests of this source are that pharmaceutical drugs aren't bad for you at times but they are not to be used all the time instead you should use vitamins to stay healthier and then you will not need them as much. 

The research question is arguable because there are doctors and groups of people on either side of this topic. The groups form by the doctors or groups of people trying to get you to buy their products. All three of the sources I have found mostly agree that it is better for you to take vitamins than it is for you take pharmaceuticals. One doctor explained that it is good for you to take pharmaceutical drugs for some illnesses, but not for every little pain that we have. Otherwise we will become immune to them and they wont ever be able to us when we actually need them. I agree with almost everything that is in this sources. I know from personal experience that you can come immune to pharmaceuticals from taking them for too much. I also agree that vitamins cannot fix everything but they make you healthier and keep you from getting infections and illnesses you can get when not taking them. I may need to change they way I have formed my research question as we go on with our research and the sources get limited. 
