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Robin generates a lot of clever ideas. That's awesome. I've heard him retract before, but it is tempting to make the minimum feasible patch to your stated ideas when someone exposes some shallowness or flaw in your analysis.
I'm interested in a large single prospective on vitamin supplementation. I can't believe any good will come at looking retrospectively at correlations (I'm too lazy right now to see if that's actually a problem with any of the studies used in the meta-analysis) - people with more health problems (and especially older people) tend to take more vitamins.
Confounding things further but in the opposite direction - people who are health conscious (and wealthier) take more vitamins too.
My approach regarding this topic is that I plan on going and doing/funding research on this kind of thing myself and are actively re-educating myself and acquiring resources in order to do so. In the mean time I'm just not going to take excessive doses of fat soluble vitamins - because that'd just be a stupid idea in the first place!
I'd be extremely grateful if you do investigate this.