Is Taking Vitamins Beneficial? A Statistician’s Perspective.

It is relatively easy to find statistical studies that indicate that:?

1)????? Vitamins can be harmful.?

2)????? Vitamins are useless.?

3)????? Vitamins are useful.

4)????? Vitamins can be highly beneficial.?

The world is filled with contradictory information that requires sophisticated filtering.? A quantum perspective is suggested; all four claims are true and false simultaneously.? Studies have contexts which are far from universal.?

So, once again, let’s ask is taking vitamins beneficial?? Vitamins will be loosely taken to include traditional vitamins, minerals, and nutritional aids.? A personal focus will be whether taking vitamins ever proved to be highly beneficial in my and my wife’s lives.? The short answer is yes although the quantum perspective previously provided remains the full answer.? No specific guidance is provided; you must find your own path.? In all cases, highly specific vitamin strategies were experimented with.?

Issue:? Sunburned extremely rapidly upon any exposure through childhood and a contiguous chunk of adult life leading to many prior sun avoidance tactics.? Vitamins eliminated this as an ongoing concern.?

Issue:? PSA test results started an almost linear march up to action levels over a multiyear period.? A vitamin approach knocked it back down within weeks and these lower levels have been sustained long term.?

Issue:? UTI’s escalated into an active ongoing issue.? A vitamin strategy eliminated approximately 90% of them.? Worked even better than that for someone else in the neighborhood.?

Issue:? Many years of being extremely easy to bruise.? A vitamin strategy, within about 2 months, fully eliminated this issue and this has been sustained ever since.?

One might ask why the specific beneficial solutions were not provided.? What works for one can’t be generalized as a universal solution.? In fact, what works extremely well for one may be harmful for some other population subset.? While all four claims are both true and false simultaneously this does not imply that inaction is your best response.?