Multivitamins Fail to Deliver-Again. From the Wellness Letter 10-2023 out of the University of Berkeley.
Another study of studies fails to find benefits for multivitamins on cancer or heart disease prevention.
ANALYSIS: The real story here is not just the failed results. The real take away is that it is finally time to accept the premise that the multivitamin formulas tested failed to deliver positive results. It is not the vitamins that failed. The truth is that multi-vitamin formulas failed and must have something wrong or missing that needs correcting.
It is past time to admit this is the real reality. Current multivitamin formulas and vitamin forms tested are incomplete and do not provide the nutrient forms that the new scientific research reveals are the ones with value for the diseases under study.
Here is copy from the Wellness Letter article that contains a concept not widely promoted to the vitamin consuming Public: "Of note, the recommendations apply only to healthy community-dwelling adults and not children, pregnant women, or people with chronic illnesses or nutrient deficiencies, who may benefit from certain supplements."
Inconvenient fact: The percentage of People with a nutrient deficiency varies from 0.3% up to 98% for different nutrients. Less than 10% consume 100% of all required nutrient recommendations. Potassium is often 100% deficient. That so few people were able to reach the potassium requirement prompted the US Government recently to lower the RDA by over 30%. ref article article article