Have you seen the headlines in the media saying that vitamin use can be dangerous for older women?
Have you actually read the study that the headlines are based on?
The fact of the matter is that media outlets get much more money from pharmaceutical companies than from vitamin companies.
The fact of the matter is that whereas the minimum required vitamin doses that prevent deficiency-related diseases are well understood, the optimal, or or orthonormal quantities are not as well understood.
It seems to me unlikely that the amounts that you receive in your diet are the optimal amounts.
The vitamins in your food are whats best for your food.
Your food does not care about you.
In fact if anything it does not like you.
Why should what ever you get from your food be the optimal amount of vitamins?
Here is a news video that discusses how those news headlines distorted the findings of the study that they are quoting, and that this study they are quoting does not have much statistical relevance in the first place.
So what do these numbers really say?
Vitamin B complex was associated with a 7% reduction in mortality
Vitamin C was associated with a 4% reduction in mortality
Vitamin D was associated with an 8% reduction in mortality
Magnesium was associated with a 3% reduction in mortality
Selenium was associated with a 3% reduction in mortality
Zinc was associated with a 3% reduction in mortality
I bet you didn't read that in the mainstream media, huh? That's because they never reported these numbers! Once again, they just cherry picked whatever scary data they wanted to show you while ignoring the rest.
On the negative side of the findings:
Folic acid was associated with a 9% increase in mortality
Copper was associated with a 31% increase in mortality
Infowars News
Here is the link to the homepage of the medical doctor who was quoted in the newscast.
drbrownstein.com
