Taking Your Vitamins

[Shlup]

Yes. With extra iron 'cause I need lots of that trout.

[Pike]

oh man Flintstones vitamins are amazing. Once when I was a kid we got some other brand; NEVER AGAIN.

P.S. Re: supplements I want to share this with everybody because it's great Snake Oil? The scientific evidence for health supplements

[milliegoesbeep]

I take some vegan vitamins bought from Holland & Barrett (I figure if I get the extra stuff since i'm not actually vegan, it can't hurt) and veggie omega 3. I used to take superted vitamins as a kid.

[Tigmafuzz]

P.S. Re: supplements I want to share this with everybody because it's great Snake Oil? The scientific evidence for health supplements

That reminds me, we make it a point to make food with extra garlic in it at least once a week

[Mirage]

I take a few capsules of fish oil with vitamins A, D and E added to them a day. For a while I was taking vitamin B complex because my nails were terribly weak and would split as soon as they grew past the area where there was flesh or whatever underneath them.

Considering I had been having that problem for over a year, and it went away a month after starting on the vit Bs, it does seem like that was what solved it. I've stopped taking them now though, because I think I might have been taking too much of it. It affects skin growth too and I was starting to get some unusually thick and hard skin around a couple of my knuckles. I used to take two of those pills daily, but now I just take one a week instead.

While not a supplement, I think I'm more than enough of any of the vitamins and minerals found in milk, considering I drink something a 1-2 liters of milk a day.


Coincidencially, all the things I take score high on that chart Pike posted. It is also extremely rare for me to become sick, even if I don't care all that much about keeping warm in winters, eating things before they expire, and various other things. Maybe that's the vitamin D at work?!

[Pumpkin]

No. I have a vitamin D deficiency apparently so I drink vitamin D fortified orange juice.

[Mirage]

Oh yeah about vit D. You can basically never get too much of it.

Naturally, there is a "recommended daily amount", but this value is typically more something along the lines of "you should at least have this much, or your health could be less than adequate". In reality, the human body can make good use of much higher amounts than the daily recommended amount, and it is practically impossible to overdose on VitD. You would have to eat something like several fistfuls of vitD supplements a day to get anywhere close to dangerously much.

It is used in just about every cell division process in your body.

[Shiny]

I have a Vitamin D deficiency due to the fact that I'm lactose intolerant so I take D3 and fish oil pills, but I don't take a multivitamin. I should start taking vitamins more regularly.

Fish oil pills are amazing though. I have arthritis and I've seriously never felt better after taking them. I did a split yesterday.

Taking Biochemistry, I do know that there is a such thing is too much Vitamin C. I've learned that the hard way with drinking a carton of orange juice a day.

[Pumpkin]

Luckily I don't drink that much. Just a glass a day.

I was getting some leg cramping and swelling issues, which is bad for me because my blood tends to clot severely and I've been hospitalized for it so I'm supposed to be extra cautious about it. Plus its painful. So I went to the doctor and did some tests and luckily it wasn't a blood clot but I was told it was probably from the vitamin D deficiency. Now that I've been drinking the vitamin D fortified orange juice, I haven't had another cramp since, so I'm happy.

[Slothy]

Fish oil pills are amazing though. I have arthritis and I've seriously never felt better after taking them. I did a split yesterday.

Fish oil is a freaking miracle for inflammation. I'd probably still be having shoulder issues if it weren't for that stuff.

And I didn't think of it earlier but I do take Vitamin D as well when I remember to. No real reason aside from hearing some people mention they get sick less often when taking it and that it can be beneficial for people suffering from depression. Haven't looked into much of the science behind it yet but the stuff's cheap so I figured why not just take it and see if I notice any positive changes?

[Jiro]

I always forget to take my pills and supplements.

[Flaming Ice]

P.S. Re: supplements I want to share this with everybody because it's great Snake Oil? The scientific evidence for health supplements

That reminds me, we make it a point to make food with extra garlic in it at least once a week

I eat garlic pretty much everyday


I have supplements every once in a while but they are my parents.

Vitamin C (usually if I'm sick or don't want something sugary...well mainly fruits are where I'll get it) or calcium/vit d if I'm not going to drink milk (milk contains hormones so best not to drink too much).

[Mirage]

It does? Which?

[Aulayna]

I brought supplements in the best interests of taking them. Always forget too though.

Oddly one of my colleagues who could be aptly described as a "supplement whore," is pretty much chronically suffering from a cold. I'm sure that's enough circumstance evidence to prove that supplements are bad right... right?

[Mirage]

my fish oil supplements taste of vanilla

that helps a lot