The claimEvidence A · guideline-tier
Take a multivitamin daily 'just in case'
The evidence
PHS-II + COSMOS-Mind: null on cardiovascular, cancer, cognitive endpoints in well-nourished adults.
The mechanism, in brief
The discovery of vitamins is one of the most brilliant chapters of 19th-20th century nutrition science — in under two centuries, a handful of physicians and chemists walked from "why do sailors get scurvy?" all the way to "folate-fortified flour", and the classic deficiency diseases nearly vanished from developed…
Sources (1)
- US Preventive Services Task Force. (2022). Vitamin, mineral, and multivitamin supplementation to prevent cardiovascular disease and cancer: recommendation statement. JAMA, 327(23), 2326–2333.