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"Recently mainstream media has been gleefully reporting findings they believe all multivitamins to be worthless at preventing disease. &amp;#39;Case Closed: Multivitamins Should Not Be Used,&amp;#39; declares Forbes. &amp;#39;New studies dispel multivitamin myths,&amp;#39; reports NBC News. And CBS News shouts, &amp;#39;case is closed&amp;#39; after studies find no health benefits.&amp;#39; The problem with all these headlines is they&amp;#39;re based on an editorial published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, a pro-pharma publication almost entirely funded by pharmaceuticals which compete with multivitamins. When I visited the study publication page on Annals.org, I was immediately greeted with a pop-up advertisement trying to hawk a pharmaceutical drug. It&amp;#39;s almost as if the pharma-funded publication is saying, &amp;#39;Here, while we trash the reputation of vitamins, why don&amp;#39;t you buy some drugs from our sponsors?&amp;#39; Why Pharma-Drugs Are Never Subjected To The Same Scrutiny As Multivitamins What the media doesn&amp;#39;t report, of course, is that if pharmaceuticals were subjected to the same basic questions covered in this study -- do multivitamins enhance cognitive function? Do they prevent heart disease? -- pharmaceuticals would prove to be disastrous. They not only don&amp;#39;t work; they also might kill you in the process of not working. So why isn&amp;#39;t the media reporting that the &amp;#39;case is closed&amp;#39; on how drugs and medications fail to prevent chronic degenerative disease? The answer is because this scrutiny is reserved solely for nutritional supplements. In today&amp;#39;s distorted system of conventional medicine, science and pro-pharma propaganda, medications never have to be proven effective to be promoted and hyped. There is no scientific evidence whatsoever, for example, that chemotherapy prevents the progression of cancer, or that statin drugs enhance lifespan. There is no evidence whatsoever that ADHD drugs create healthy children or that antidepressants cure depression. Yet all these drugs are heavily hyped by medical journal (i.e. &amp;#39;drug journals&amp;#39;) and the mainstream media without regard for their disastrous lack of efficacy and safety. So there&amp;#39;s a dangerous double standard in all this. Nobody asks whether drugs actually create health, but multivitamins are routinely subjected to intense scrutiny on this very question. Studies Were Contrived Through The Use Of Synthetic Vitamins To make sure these multivitamin studies fail to produce positive results, these studies are universally structured so that they are based on cheap, low-grade, synthetic vitamins and inorganic minerals. Not coincidentally, these brands of low-grade multivitamins are actually manufactured by companies owned by pharmaceutical interests. They really do have a financial incentive to make multivitamins look bad, and so their multivitamin formulations are intentionally designed to fail. The vitamin E studied in this science review, for example, was synthetic, isolated vitamin E which already has a long history of being toxic for human consumption. Note carefully that these researchers never looked at full-spectrum vitamin E, including the tocopherols, nor did they bother to study a food concentrate form of vitamin E (because it would have been amazingly beneficial to heart health). If I wanted to make all cars look dangerous, I could buy a dozen old Ford Pinto cars, line them up bumper to bumper, fill them with gasoline and ram them together in a mock road accident that caused them all to explode. From that, I could declare, &amp;#39;All cars are unsafe!&amp;#39; even though I only tested the Pinto. That&amp;#39;s the same as what&amp;#39;s happening with these multivitamin studies. They intentionally choose the most toxic forms of synthetic nutrients, then they use the negative results to declare that all multivitamins are dangerous. Beta carotene, too, was studied as a synthetic chemical in isolation, not as a food-sourced nutrient like you might find in carrots or squash. So what these studies really prove is only that synthetic chemical vitamins are toxic to human health. Guess who makes all these synthetic chemical vitamins? Companies like Bayer and BASF, the same companies that also manufacture raw materials for pharmaceutical manufacturing. High-Quality Supplements Work Too Well To Test Against Pharma-Drugs! The mainstream media, of course, is all too happy to use journalist tricks of misdirection and false implication to misinform the public about nutrition. In claiming that &amp;#39;multivitamins are worthless,&amp;#39; they are utterly failing to differentiate between cheap, pharma-manufactured synthetic multivitamins versus high-quality food-based multivitamins that really do work to enhance human health and prevent disease. You won&amp;#39;t find these scientists testing high-quality supplements. Those kinds of supplements would produce positive results, and that&amp;#39;s not what the pro-pharma scientists running these contrived studies want to show. You also won&amp;#39;t find them studying superfood powders, whole food concentrates or food-based supplements. Those supplements contain food-based nutrients and organic minerals -- the kind of nutrients the human body expects to see in food intake. Those supplements produce phenomenal results for enhanced human health. Researchers who publish in pharma-funded science journals will never study high-end multivitamins and nutritional supplements for the simple reason that the results would be too positive! Synthetic Drugs Cause More Damage Than Synthetic Vitamins The bigger question in all this, however, is just how harmful synthetic drugs are to human health. If synthetic vitamins produce negative health outcomes, then synthetic drugs produce truly disastrous results. Many drugs can simply kill you outright. Synthetic drugs -- including PPIs, blood pressure medications, diabetes drugs, statin drugs, Alzheimer&amp;#39;s drugs, osteoporosis drugs and so on -- are specifically designed to interfere with human physiology. Their entire intent is to &amp;#39;block&amp;#39; some chemical process in the body and thereby attempt to control symptoms of disease (without actually addressing the root cause of disease). High-quality supplements and superfoods, on the other hand, are designed to prevent the causes of disease before they ever become symptomatic. They treat the root causes, in other words, rather than the mere symptoms. This is why high-end food-based supplements, superfoods, medicinal herbs and other food concentrates are so effective at preventing disease. Conversely, this is also why isolated chemical drugs are so terrible at the same thing. No drug actually reverses any disease. They merely mask symptoms while allowing the underlying causes of disease to worsen. This is easily demonstrated: if a person taking blood pressure medications stops taking those medications, their blood pressure suddenly rises. The medication never addressed the cause of high blood pressure; it merely artificially interfered with physiology in a way that created a contrived, temporary lowering of measurable blood pressure. 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