It wasn't that many decades ago when "the science" insisted there were only FOUR vitamins in existence.
If you said there were six, you were considered a huckster and pusher of "pseudoscience" and you were laughed out of the so-called "science journals."
Today, there are at least thirteen vitamins recognized by modern medical science, plus literally hundreds of phytonutrients with known physiological benefits (grouped into categories like antioxidants, carotenoids, etc.)
"The science," it turns out, always lags behind reality. And since today's medical "science" has zero tolerance for any new information it hasn't already declared to be absolute truth, the entire field has stalled and will go nowhere until there is an intellectual revolution that breaks down the walls and allows new ideas to flourish.
Censorship is the means by which "the science" maintains its thought monopoly and eliminates any new information that challenges its obsolete paradigms. And public shaming is the social mechanism by which actually curious investigators are defamed and attacked until they fall back into line and accept the status quo.
The entire "peer-reviewed" science journal system exists not to expand science, but to protect the false paradigms of the status quo. The truly revolutionary discoveries will never be recognized by peers, since they are all living in the paradigms of the past rather than the breakthroughs that lead us to a brighter future.