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Comment by staticassertion

It seems interesting that Vitamin D may be so much more prone to false correlations due to the fact that it's tied to going out in the sun, and going out in the sun is what healthy people do. Since so many illnesses and conditions, from psychological to physical, can keep you indoors, one could conclude that vitamin D is really a miracle pill.

I take 1k iu a day, since I barely go outside anymore, but I'd probably cut that in half if life were normal again. I think of most vitamins as a "cover my bases in cases I eat like shit today", not as a "this is going to keep me from getting cancer".

I also found the commentary on metanalyses interesting - they're touted as being very high quality, but of course there's always the garbage in garbage out.

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