Yesterday's big news! Vitamins cause early death!

The Limited Value of Multivitamin Supplements
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2820375?guestAccessKey=e31fc4af-e874-42a4-a14c-d05d75c71144&utm_source=for_the_media&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ftm_links&utm_content=tfl&utm_term=062624

The UK Guardian reported this study this way:

Daily multivitamins may increase risk of early death, major study finds - The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jun/26/daily-multivitamins-may-increase-risk-of-early-death-major-study-finds

Inside story:

Daily multivitamins do not help people live longer, major study finds

Analysis of 400,000 healthy adults finds no health benefits from taking daily multivitamins

It is not worth spending much time on analysis. It is no great revelation that the small amounts and low quality of most multivitamins aren't going to benefit "healthy" people all that much. But the headlines will start blaming vitamins for early death. It would be funny if it wasn't so diabolical.

Lets review. Vitamins were discovered because if they are missing in the diet, people eventually die (of the various deficiency diseases).

It is true, that with the probable exception of vitamin C, a "good" diet contains the vitamins and minerals required to maintain average to good health.

Linus Pauling's recommended high anti-oxidant dietary supplement regimen does include a multi-vitamin/multi-mineral supplement, for insurance; in case someone's diet happens to be less than perfect.

According to the CDC/Poison Control Centers, there has not been a recorded death from a vitamin overdose (even from the astounding 3 million IU dose mistakenly put in Gary Null's vitamin D3 product).

A close associate of Pauling's friend Roger J Williams (Don Davis) research revealed that the only "vitamin" death discovered in the past 50 years was a fellow who drank gallons of carrot juice.

Refs can be found on the VitaminCFoundation.org web site.

On the other hand, adverse reactions to prescription medications are at least the 3rd leading cause of death in the United States (JAMA's own study).

How do you separate the death caused by prescription and over-the-counter medications from the "deaths" supposedly caused by multi-vitamins?