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08-13-2014, 04:11 PM
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Do you take supplements?
Just curious. I only take a multivitamin.
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08-13-2014, 07:45 PM
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I don't take them. I used to take a multivitamin but didn't feel that it was doing anything for me so I stopped. Supplements are not regulated by the FDA and I don't trust them. Also, I take a lot of meds and it's hard to tell if a supplement is going to interact with meds.
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08-13-2014, 08:52 PM
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I'm taking omega-3s and magnesium Magnesium is great for PMS so I started taking it this week. I can really feel a difference: I sleep much better and feeling much more relaxed.
I'm taking Omega-3s because I don't eat a lot of fish.
Last edited by muguet; 08-13-2014 at 08:53 PM.
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08-13-2014, 09:35 PM
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Warrior Princess
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Magnesium and Fish oil
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08-13-2014, 09:46 PM
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Folic Acid.
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08-14-2014, 06:21 AM
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Not really, the only thing I use is protein powder as I run and am veggie so after a race it helps my recovery but apart from that nothing. I used to take a multivitamin but once I started eating well I found I didn't really need it.
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08-14-2014, 07:44 AM
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multivitamin, C, D3, fish oil, magnesium and B12.
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08-14-2014, 07:56 AM
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Recovering Pantry Pest
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Multivitamin, D3 especially in winter, and C in high doses when I'm feeling punky. And melatonin at night.
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08-15-2014, 03:14 PM
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Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2014
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The problem with most multivitamins is that they often provide the least active form of every vitamin. Any vitamin complex you get should be coenzymated. The difference is staggaring.
Omega oils are good, so long as you get all the trace omegas. The balance of 3-6-9 and EPA/DHA that we need does not occur naturally in fish, but it's tremendously useful in so many parts of the body. Once I was given a bottle of safflower oil pills someone had returned to a place where my friend worked because they had all melted together in a car. So I would poke a small hole in the pills and squeeze out the oil (omega 3 I think). I got some on my skin and the next day the place I had gotten it on my skin was really soft. So I started using it topically after that.
a really great adjunct to omega oils is curcumin, which has poor absorbtion on its own. Just saturate 2 grams of the oil with a gram or more of pure curcumin, amazing antioxidant and anti imflammatory effect! Curcumin also acts as a monoamine oxidase inhibitor, but I've taken excessive quantities of it (10 grams with absorbtion factors) looking for some kind of dangerous or interesting interaction, and theres really not one. It seems to give you more neurotransmitters but I've never been able to approach anything like serotonin syndrome combining lots of 5-htp with it.
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08-15-2014, 03:20 PM
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i tried the B4. it seemed to give me more energy.
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08-15-2014, 03:48 PM
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Here to Learn
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I try to take D3 daily, and also Selenium - both of which my doctor wants me to take every day. Fish oil is another one. Sometimes I remember to take my multi, mostly I don't.
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08-27-2014, 08:27 AM
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I take some - Multivitamin (with iron), D3 (cause I am deficient no matter what), b12, sometimes St. johns wart - recently I started taking a probiotic after my second yeast infection because NO THANK YOU, I do not want to repeat that!
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08-27-2014, 12:12 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by liciacolon
I took vitamin B which I later abandoned due to red spots that had appeared on my face.
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I took fish oil for awhile and broke out in a weird rash along the side of my back and wrapping around my ribs....weirdest thing ever!....it faded away after i discontinued the fish oil
right now i'm only taking probiotics....partly because it's a good idea and partly because i just finished a round of antibiotics...i used to take multivitamins and didn't notice any difference in how i felt so i stopped buying them...my doctor also told me to start taking vitamin D but i forgot what dosage she said....i haven't started yet because of the antibiotics, didn't want too much stuff in my system all at once...
i also take an iron pill when i notice that i'm considerably more exhausted than usual with no reason why....and that always helps with energy...i've been tested as anemic before but havent had an official test done in years now
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08-27-2014, 12:57 PM
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Call me NNS!
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I stopped taking supplements a while ago for many of the reasons mentioned here, that they don't necessarily work well (especially if you take them on an empty stomach), it's hard to know for sure what's in them, not regulated by the FDA, etc. I just had a blood test done this morning, so I'm interested to see how my levels are.
Update: All of my levels came back perfectly normal, so I will continue to not take them. Feels good to eat a diet that is nutritionally well-rounded.
Last edited by nonameslob; 08-28-2014 at 03:12 PM.
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08-27-2014, 11:03 PM
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Just started B12 supplements, as I'm a veggie.
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