>However, a comprehensive medical history—assessing dozens of physical and mental illnesses—revealed zero actual health differences between people who did or did not take multivitamins.
I can't trust a society (or medical/scientific community) that can only express health as the lack of critical illness to make me optimally "healthy" (operation and expression).
To illustrate the point for many diseases/issues they are progressions and spectrum -- like Osteoporosis -- such that sure maybe the humble multivitamin (and minerals?) didn't cure it for life, but maybe it made it more manageable in the final 10-15 yrs?
I can't trust a society (or medical/scientific community) that can only express health as the lack of critical illness to make me optimally "healthy" (operation and expression).
To illustrate the point for many diseases/issues they are progressions and spectrum -- like Osteoporosis -- such that sure maybe the humble multivitamin (and minerals?) didn't cure it for life, but maybe it made it more manageable in the final 10-15 yrs?