This isn’t true. Our diets are ideally made of vitamins and minerals and amino acids (and more) that all work with each other and counteract each other in a delicate balance, along with whatever anatomy we have like receptors or enzymes or current storage of these nutrients, along with whatever genes we have.
This is complicated, and no, it’s never one size fits all. However, a lot of US diet is based in
-high vitamin A, high tyramine, high omega 6, high sodium, high glucose, and
Many many many many diseases are associated with chronic vitamin deficiencies. You absolutely may need different amount of different vitamins for your anatomy and diet. Most doctors ASSUME our diets are adequate but do not actually check, and those assumptions aren’t taking into account that some populations likely use more of some vitamins than others, so what looks like an adequate amount in one person may not actually be enough in another. Or seasonally, eg we need more zinc in the summertime to deal with heat stress, we get more vitamin D in the summer as well.
Seriously, just try to get 100% of your daily intake of just potassium and vitamin K with foods and tell me who is eating like that every day. We are not all eating adequate diets by any means.
This isn’t true. Our diets are ideally made of vitamins and minerals and amino acids (and more) that all work with each other and counteract each other in a delicate balance, along with whatever anatomy we have like receptors or enzymes or current storage of these nutrients, along with whatever genes we have.
This is complicated, and no, it’s never one size fits all. However, a lot of US diet is based in -high vitamin A, high tyramine, high omega 6, high sodium, high glucose, and
-low vitamin e, d, k, magnesium, iron, copper, selenium, omega 3s, vitamin Bs, vitamin C, potassium
Many many many many diseases are associated with chronic vitamin deficiencies. You absolutely may need different amount of different vitamins for your anatomy and diet. Most doctors ASSUME our diets are adequate but do not actually check, and those assumptions aren’t taking into account that some populations likely use more of some vitamins than others, so what looks like an adequate amount in one person may not actually be enough in another. Or seasonally, eg we need more zinc in the summertime to deal with heat stress, we get more vitamin D in the summer as well.
Seriously, just try to get 100% of your daily intake of just potassium and vitamin K with foods and tell me who is eating like that every day. We are not all eating adequate diets by any means.
You’re on a whole othef league here.
If you down soda all day and can’t get out of the couch, it’s not vitamin problems you should worry about.
Also, don’t just eat vitamins if you don’t actually have a real deficiency. You can intake too much of some like the fat soluble ones.
Also 90%+ of westeners lack vitamin D (because we’re not out getting skin cancer in the sun 10h a day).
But yeah, eat a well balanced diet and keep checks on your physical health is key to good health.