40-Somethings - What vitamins do you take?
MadeleinesMom
10-22-2009, 03:40 PM
I just turned 46 and find that my hormones are shifting a bit and my moodiness before that time of month is increasing. I take a Centrum multi-vitamin daily, and I was going to add a vitamin B supplement that someone suggested would help level out the moodiness. Then someone said you have to take vitamin D and Calcium because you're a woman. I was just curious what other people take daily. Thanks!
CruiseCAT
10-22-2009, 03:56 PM
I take the following:
1 - Woman's Multi
1 - B Complex
1 - E
1 - Flaxseed
3 - Tri-Flex (Glucosamine Chondroitin MSM)
EDITED TO ADD:
I take my in the evening. When do you take yours?
RN BSN 2009
10-22-2009, 04:04 PM
I take
glucosamine & chondroitin
one-a-day weight loss multivitamin
fish oil
flaxseed oil
luckymommy
10-22-2009, 05:30 PM
I take Vitamin D3 and KyoDophilis. I should also take fish oil, but I don't.
lambchop
10-22-2009, 08:24 PM
My doctor just suggested a few to me, so I started them 2 weeks ago:
Multi-vitamin
Vitamin D
Fish Oil
B-12 shots right now
I also had just started on progesterone cream a few weeks back - think i'm estrogen dominant. My doctor ok'd this
newleaf123
10-22-2009, 11:14 PM
Honestly? I don't take any vitamins... Sometimes I get motivated and take a multivitamin and a fish oil, but usually, nothing.
ICUwishing
10-23-2009, 10:10 AM
Life Extension Foundation's 2 Per Day multivitamin
2-3 grams EPA/DHA fish oil
6g micronized Vit D3 emulsion (I'm WAY low)
Iodo-Lite - iodine supplementation on dr's advice to go along with Armour
2g Vit C
cheekiemonkey
10-28-2009, 10:12 PM
Multi vitamin
Fish oil
Flax seed capsule
Vitamin B
Vitamin C if I feel a cold coming
Calcium when I think of it
murphmitch
10-28-2009, 10:32 PM
Multivitamin
1000 IU Vitamin D
Calcium 500mg.
Aspirin
Fish oil 1000 mg.
Glucosamine & chondroitin
Boomcha
11-25-2009, 08:36 AM
I started out earlier this year with just a multivitamin for women and have since added:
Vitamins C & D (flu season)
Calcium
Omega 3-6-9 oil
Glucosamine & chondroitin
petra65
11-25-2009, 09:45 AM
I take a slew of stuff. I see this is an old thread but I'll put it on here.
I take a multi vitamin called Four Pillars that includes Vitamins & Minerals, Antioxidants, Fatty Acids, and Probiotics
Ca+-Mg Supplement
Alpha Lipoic Acid
B Complex
CoQ10 with L-carnitine
srmb60
11-25-2009, 10:44 AM
Psyllium capsules, calcium, glucosamine and CLA.
cathydoe
11-25-2009, 12:08 PM
I take GNC multivamin for bone density....but they aren't making that anymore :( I am waiting to see what the replacement will be. I will be 50 next year.. any suggestions chickies?
Cathy
Windchime
11-25-2009, 12:40 PM
All I take in the way of vitamins is 1000 mcg of Vitamin D every day, along with a couple of Tums for calcium. I should probably take more but I never know what to take.
JustBeckyV
12-03-2009, 10:33 PM
That would be none lol I probably should but IDK what to take.
Ehecatl
12-29-2009, 09:37 AM
I take a multi vitamin and flax oil plus grounded flax on my oatmeal and probiotics, sometimes zinc when I feel a cold coming on, but I am going to be adding a B-complex and drinking aloe gel. I am deficient in vitamins, I try to get them from my food source first, but I know I will need more supplement and have to figure out what it is that I need, cause I am feeling off balance and dizzy alot lately and just not right. Or maybe it's just that I am getting old now at 46 and I am suppose to feel like this. I don't know, my mind refuses to get old, but my body isn't listening.
cassieroll
12-30-2009, 12:28 AM
I don't take vitamins either. I always think it is such a great idea and buy bottles of them and then only take them for a few days.
Litllam88
01-02-2010, 04:27 PM
I purchased CoQ10, Glucosamine, Calcium, Multi Vitamins and Fish Oil or Flax Seed Oil....they are all collecting dust...
newleaf123
01-02-2010, 04:46 PM
I've actually re-started taking vitamins (which differs from my much earlier post in this thread!). Lately I've been taking a multi-vitamin, an iron tablet, and a fish oil pill.
Since I was a teenager, I've often been found to be too low in iron, even as most recently as 3 months ago, but not always. So, I'm taking the 1 tablet a day to try to cover for when my diet and the vitamin aren't enough.
And I'm taking just 1 fish oil (I think 3 are recommended in the jar I bought) because I figure that 1 is better than nothing.
The other thing that I've started doing is mixing unflavored soy protein powder in with my hot cereal and that powder is loaded with vitamins, too.
PeanutsMom704
01-02-2010, 06:05 PM
I take a multi, calcium plus D, and iron (I'm always either anemic or just barely into the non-anemic zone, so this is per doctor's instructions).
I've been thinking I should start taking fish oil - seems like so many others here do, so I think I'll put buying some of those on my shopping list.
GrEyedRose
01-12-2010, 05:21 PM
Fish oil
Flax seed
Vitamin B Complex
and I make an Orange Juice/EmergenC slushy a couple of times a week. Great way to get extra vitamins!
I have been doing this since early October and can REALLY feel a difference
thePetNanny
01-24-2010, 12:31 AM
one multi/daily
2 nature's way system well (immunity)
2 Omega 3-6 from puritans pride
I'm a big believer in supplements. All four of us (including 2 kids) have our pill boxes that I fill weekly. The teenager takes similar stuff to mine and the little one gets gummy multi's/omegas and echinachea/zinc. Hubby is taking l-lysine and proline and an aspirin also
caryesings
01-24-2010, 10:25 AM
Ok, I turned 50 in October, but will answer anyway as this is what I was doing in my late 40s as well:
Women's multi which has extra Calcium and D in it daily
3 days/week 1000 iu of D - Dr has been monitoring D and this is enough to get me to normal range on blood test.
Fish oil -1200 mg daily
Baby aspirin daily
I monitor my calcium consumption and if low for the day, 2 Tums (calcium carbonate) before bed.
Val424
01-30-2010, 08:46 PM
I take
Opti Women Multivitamin
Calcium w/ Vit D
L-Tyrosine (for energy) 1000mg
Baby Asprin