Right, sure, that aligns with what I suggested. That if you have a nutritional deficiency, they may be useful, but 86% of Americans take vitamins or some other nutritional supplements, but only 20-something percent of them have been diagnosed with any kind of condition indicating they may need them.
The analysis needs to come from the other direction: take one vitamin, and prove it does something. Don't load people up with 20 vitamins and hope. Here's a great breakdown of the state of common supplements and whether they do anything at all that I found here, actually, a while back [1]
I put the onus on you: tell me why I should be putting this into my body. Explain what benefit it would provide me. Rather than saying "well, if you have low but not deficient levels of some vitamins supplementation may do something" -- that's not how medical science works :) I mean, eating lots of things may do something, but the burden of proof is higher.
[1] https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/snake-oil-...
The analysis needs to come from the other direction: take one vitamin, and prove it does something. Don't load people up with 20 vitamins and hope. Here's a great breakdown of the state of common supplements and whether they do anything at all that I found here, actually, a while back [1]
I put the onus on you: tell me why I should be putting this into my body. Explain what benefit it would provide me. Rather than saying "well, if you have low but not deficient levels of some vitamins supplementation may do something" -- that's not how medical science works :) I mean, eating lots of things may do something, but the burden of proof is higher.
[1] https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/snake-oil-...