*** The Vitamin/Supplement thread - Do you take them ? ***

I take coconut oil and bee pollen, but i eat an all organic diet and mostly raw.

I don't take pills, cause yeah, I think that's throwing money down the drain.

Supplements....
Can't you just eat a tomato or an apple?
Are you lazy?

I do not take vitamins, but I do take medicinal supplements for my medical conditions. Prescription drugs did not help, and some of the prescription meds caused an almost fatal reaction, where I ended up in the ER.

Many foods just don't have the nutrition they use to have. So it has nothing to do with no eating the right foods. It is just they aren't that nourishing anymore. Soil depletion for one.

I take coconut oil cause it supports a healthy metabolism and its natural.. the bee pollen helps with allergies.

I eat 90% raw anyway

Oh teah, many do work, but unless you have problems you probably won't notice.
I have Lyme induced mitochondrial disease and some supplements have given me back my life:

ubiquinol(coq10)
B12
ALA
7-keto
carnitine
Ribose
glutamine
fish oil
magnesium

cla really does help build lean muscle. It is working for me

I strongly suspect the drug industry pays for regular articles stating that supplements are of no use. Thats all the popular press ever says, they repeat every negative study and rarely if ever mention the positive studies.

However real studies done by real researches show all sorts of benefits depending on the supplement and the disease in question. Next time the popular press says something is of no use, go and look it up on medline you'll get a very different perspective.

Don't believe the anti supplement hype paid for by the drug industry.

I like used motor oil.

OP, I hope you won't mind my asking a question for a personal need?

I hit and miss, more miss, on vitamins, but eat healthy food. Unfortunately my hair is very thin especially in the bangs area, here you can see the scalp no matter ho I style my hair. Any suggestions on hat might really work, since I don't relish popping pills? Anyone? Thanks.

fish oil
homemade yogurt (probiotics)
homemade kefir
chelators (zinc, curcumin, alpha lipoic acid)
c
d
e
a is in the fish oil
selenium
biotin


if you have a problem with digestion, then your body is def not getting enough nutrients..but then, you need a high quality supplement for your body to absorb the sups. digestion is crucial, but sups and the right diet can help with that too.

2000iu of D3

It is the world upside down. Thinking foods have nothing and a pill has something...
Don't believe the hype, we all are still alive and not dying. Just eat 2 apples if you think 1 apple doesn't work.
I would only eat supplements if you miss out on stuff because of not eating meat or because of an allergy...

i take natures sunshine vitamins best on the market..i have taken them for over 15 years and i can definitely tell when i dont take them. the drug companies would tell you they dont work but vitamins have been around for thousands of years before the pharm companies thats for sure

I take a quality multi-vitamin with minerals tablet 1x a day along with 1000 mg of vitamin c and a fish oil capsule.

The vitamins help with eyesight (A), healing (antioxidative) (C, E), enzyme (A, K), kidney (folic acid), and endocrine (D) functions.

The minerals support muscles (Ca), bones (Ca, P), teeth (Ca), nervous system (Na, K), endocrine system (I) and other physiological functions.

The vitamin C also specifically supports immune system function and has general healing/reparative properties.

The fish oil is high in omega 3 fatty acids which helps lower bad cholesterol and so are good for the heart.

I am usually sick 2 days every other year; you be the judge.

However, I am stopping the fish oil capsules because the drug companies are shamelessly now using the fish kills (fish that died) from corexit poisoning to scoop up and derive the oil (and also corexit) from.

I honestly read an article about the drug companies harvesting the corexit-killed fish to get their fish oil supply to make fish oil supplements. The article was published around the time we had all of the "dead fish" threads popping up every day (mid-late July?).

So...because fish oil capsules now possibly contain corexit, I am discontinuing taking them.

Some super food supps are great. Maca root powder, kelp, spirulina barley grass and brewers yeast are super potent with all nutrients the body needs. I wouldnt waste my time buying individual supps. The supps I mentioned cover everything.

I would eat them if I could afford them.
They are very expensive, so I just eat healthy.

Vitamin D3 3,000 IU/day. It's great, great, great. A good +50 multivitamin (one made in Canada, DON'T trust the generics), Vit C on hand, ecchinacea and goldenseal and zinc for colds. If you're over 40 your ability to make D goes down drastically. My hair, which has been nearly white for years, has started coming in dark again (not all over but way more now than for many years) and that started about a month after I started taking D3 6 months ago. More energy. Stopped gaining weight, appetite is greatly reduced and I only eat good food (have a garden) and organic meats. Vitamin D is great stuff, I have less muscle aches (I have arthritis, or so I've been told), am much more flexible - I get my omega's right from fish and nuts and flax seed and olive oil. I eat loads of veggies and fruit from our own garden, but yeah, I did notice an improvement with Vitamin D supplementation. I work in health care and from what I've picked up over the years, most adults 40+ are Vitamin D (especially D3) deficient. It's a preventative for all sorts of things. And I make sure I'm outside at least half an hour a day (well, except when it's pouring rain) and usually more than that if the sun's out, so all that good D gets "activated" - didn't used to believe in supplements, but they do play a role as you get older and it's a good one too and not expensive. Plus if you are D deficient it isn't as easy for your body to absorb calcium, another reason to take it to promote bone health. It's not expensive at all. My husband takes supplements for his joints (omegas, hyaluronic acid, chondroitin, etc), he could barely walk before he started the supplements. He still uses a cane but he is much more mobile than he was. He can't take pharaceuticals, he reacts very badly to most medications, so the supplements really saved him and reduced his pain by quite a bit. He can also walk a lot farther and work in the garden all day and two years ago he couldn't do that (bad knees, very bad back, shoulder injury). He managed to stave off knee replacement surgery with supplements....so, we are both advocates. I know I'd rather take good quality supplements than any pharmaceutical drug, that's for sure.

definitely flushing em down the toilet.....

vitamin absorbtion is dependant apon minerals

each mineral has a signature PH

if your ph is off just a little bit your body rejects minerals

get ph balanced n start taking shilajit which has 84 minerals ultra trace minerals fulvic humic n oxalic acids

the soil here is so acidic it knoced out the nitrogen cycle thus killing microbal activity which would have made fulvic n humic acid wich are antivirals

unfortunately because these geniouses are so brilliant they've decided to dump recycled tires into the organic fertilizers the plants are bringing up inorganic metallics.

it's more than just popping a couple of pills this is deep the people need to stand up n start kicking some ass because we're all getting burned in more ways that you think

I have taken vitamins for over 12 years and they gave me my health back. I was seeing a medical Nutritional Doctor. I probably started out taking about 30 vitamin supplements a day, now I take them about 1-3 times a week - only about 12 supplements plus green drink, aloe vera, etc - try to eat mostly organic.
Taking mega doses of vitamins is nothing to play around with. These vitamins I took were according to tests.

Quality of vitamins is the number one issue. I have read labels on some varities, and if someone took them they would be in worse shape than they started.

About the hair growth. My hair is doubled in volume and I have hair around my receeding hairline now. I no longer have a receeding hairline. My thin hair was a symptom of my poor health.

Even my doctor will agree that if you can eat your "vitamins" from food you would be better off. This is not always possible though, as in my case, it was to bring me to the point where I was no longer depleted and unbalanced in my nutrional needs.

Years ago I a taking about 30 supplements a day, after being tested by a nutritional Doctor..I just burned out on them, and still feel that way :((. I'm even sitting on a wealth of supplements, stored all over the house, stocked up I guess for just in case..I just wish it wasn't so hard to get back into taking them. Reading this thread is a great motivator.

I'm taking multivitamins since I'm diabetic and can't find all the nutriments from my food.

I also take medicinal supplements for my medical conditions.

I take a respected multi-vitamin. But, I take two of them when only one is recommended. I also eat a lot of apples but don't have access to a lot of fresh fruits or veggies. I try and get them when I can but I've almost always been a meat and potatoes guy.

I take 'Alive'. Unless you eat raw, whole foods, most of the crap you buy at the grocery store has no nutritional value. Your body needs vitamins & minerals to combat our toxic environment.

You sound like a big pharma shill

My sister in law has PCOS and was over weight. My wife constructed a diet and vitamin mineral regiment for her sister. She now has lost 30 pounds and is pregnant they were trying for years. Iodine and iodide are VERY important for people exposed to fluoride. The bread isnt nutritional anymore and the foods are dead. I think a lot of the shit done to us is to lower fertility. Eating healthy isnt about what its called and what it looks like. You really have to know what you are eating. "Healthy low sugar drinks" Yea those.. they can kill you. Supplements are just that stuff you cant get from food.

Btw my wife insisted that I take 6000 D3 2000 C and a zinc everyday. I feel great and dont get sick.. If I do however get sick it lasts 2 days maybe 3 if you count the first day if I didnt notice it. I can tell her I feel sick and she ups my D and C. Last time I was healed the next day. Im just saying this may not be for everyone but in my house we eat healthy and take supplements. May or may not work for you.

Research it!!

MegaMans Sport, 1000 Vit C and 5000 of d3

I feel a lot better than when I wasnt taking anything

By far the best vitamin and mineral supplement I've taken is 'Animal Pak', and, no, I do not sell or distribute them, I'm just passing on my experience. You might not want to take them every day if you are not a very active person, because they are designed for people who do a lot of physical exercise. They are also fairly expensive.

I dont take none besides a omelet.

Vitamins would have me to barf.
I tried each one and damn that's no manner to live.

If you want a vitamin have a egg. A egg truly has all. However eggs are a slight sedative actually if eating many. So not before that drive or not without some meat.

Don't ever add milks to eggs as a food combining poison I'm told or recipe for a stomach ache say the Chinese.
Have eggs plain Jane style with that toast and bacon
no milk nor cereal and no juices.

coconut and pollen are great however could cost a small fortune if availability became low

......Been taking vitamin and mineral supplements for YEARS.......you have to take BOTH, by the way, not just vitamins; they work together...
Anyhow, I eat pretty well, but everything; just in moderation......I am not a vegetarian, but probably could be, just too lazy!! I eat meat perhaps once or twice a week; rest of the time it's veggies, fruits, cheese, etc.
.........Firm believer in the B Complex; I just could not live without it.......keeps you calm and helps metabolize fats in the diet.......
also take the usual: A, C, D, E, and flax seed oil for the OMegas.....I REFUSE to eat/take anything from the ocean!!! just a cesspool nowadays......so no fish oils for me.the flaxseed oil capsules take care of that.....also take ginko biloba......even though it recently was blasted as being not worthy, I find it keeps my circulation up....& that helps the brain and the groin..if you know what I mean..
HOw anyone can say that all you need to do is eat a good diet, is beyond me.....do you realize the number of chemicals, etc. being pumped into our food on all these mega-farms? organic helps, but I still say, 'take your supplements'........oh I could go on and on but I'll stop here, except for one last thing: I get my supplements from Puritan's Pride, in Oakdale NY....they are the manufacturer so you know their products are always fresh....not sitting in a warehouse somewhere for God knows how long!!!
Have been using their products for 25 years now, and they are the best!!! and they always have great sales.....
Just sayin'.............

sunflower oil has whopping amounts of vitamin E