I am sorry for your experiences @accio. I suppose I may fall into that "arrogant" category, although not quite as you have outlined.
I used to take a multivitamin Daily, religiously, along with Calcium/Vit D3, until in chatting with my PSYCHIATRIST of all people (he really is the VA pill pusher) he commented that: "Americans have the most Vitamin Rich Urine in the world" meaning of course, that many of us DO get most if not all what we need in our diet, and what our bodies don't need, we just pee it out.
Vit D and C are not stored by the body, and I almost never spend enough time in the sun to count, but I HAVE started drinking more milk, so I dropped the Calcium and am just taking Cholecalciferol (Vit D3).
Curiously about 6 months ago a blood test came back showing I was SERIOUSLY deficient in B12 so I now have that prescribed and I take it daily.
I have a (rather old) bottle of 1000Mg Vit C, but I also try to keep Real Grapefruit and eat at least one per day.
I don't understand the toilet paper obsession; if things get that bad, with people not going to work and dropping dead in the streets, the city water supplies will stop, and you'll have plenty of butt wipe (I don't mean you personally) but no water to flush with.
When I see that madness on the boob tube, I just shake my head.
btw. I am 65, with COPD so I am very much "at risk" as well.
Be strong my friend.
I wish the best to you and yours Jerry, and that is exactly the thing with the vitamins, you might be getting plenty of K for example and peeing out left over but be seriously deficient in D. Also, don't trust VA doctors as far as I can throw them! They've almost killed my father with mix ups more than once!
Oh don't get me started on the VA. For many years as I was digging my way out of serious drug and alcohol abuse/addiction, they were the only access I had to medical care, and as such (disclaimer) for the number of Vets they service, I think they for the most part, do a helluva job, but then
you have the slackers who are only there for a union guaranteed wage/salary so that it would take a MAJOR f***-up on a persons part for them to get fired, it is really a messed up system.
I've had SEVERAL misdiagnoses, tests and treatments given me all because of a side-effect of a treatment THEY GAVE ME in the first place and on and on.
If I have anything relatively major that needs being done (I had my right hip replaced last May, and just a week ago I had an umbilical hernia repair surgery) I ask for a community care referral.
Emory University Medical system did both surgeries.
It is nice to 'meet' you @accio