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Vladimir_Nesov comments on Announcing the Quantified Health Prize - Less Wrong
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I've given up on it. I'm deeply unimpressed by what mineral research I've looked at - it all seems like my original comment, that they are useful chronically during development, but not acutely after you're a grown adult (except in rare cases of major deficiency like iron deficiency for pica or anemia, which is equally useless).
That current state of medical knowledge doesn't allow to make any well-supported recommendation should be a possible valid conclusion. It has nontrivial predictive power about possible recommendations, namely that any recommendations are expected to be bogus. It suggests that the current best recommendation is to take no dietary mineral supplements.
I think it strongly suggests that you should try to eat food that maximizes the likelihood that you will test in vague healthy ranges for nutritional diagnostic testing. Of course, evidence on nutritional diagnostic testing is in just as bad of research shape as nutrition itself, but still useful when the goal is actually to improve people's health.