Vitamins
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Do you take any vitamins to supplement your health. I take a multi vitamin designed for women.
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I take an assortment of vitamins including a multi but I have health issues that need specific supplements. I take a men's multi because I don't need iron or added calcium in the women's, and the men's has higher levels of essentials than the women's does.0
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One-a-day of:
'Senior' Multi-vitamins (no Iron)
Vitamin C
Folic Acid
Calcium Magnesium
Biotin.0 -
I take niacin, pantethine, p5p, a b complex, vitamin c, vitamin d, vitamin e, vitamin k2, chromium, zinc, magnesium, manganese, and boron.2
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(You forgot the Partridge in the Pear Tree....
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2 Vitamin C immune packets that also serve as a multivitamin, extra b12, and vitamin d.0
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AlexandraCarlyle wrote: »(You forgot the Partridge in the Pear Tree.... )
those are low carb so why not?2 -
I take a womans multivitamin, a B12 supplement, and calcium. Mostly just because, but I have had low B12 at times so that one I figure is important.0
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None. On a regular basis. I previously supplemented daily with 100mg of magnesium glycinate for night leg cramps but no longer need it for that purpose. I take it every now and then because I have it.0
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Whoops I completely forgot two more. I'm taking 300mg of magnesium citrate, because I've been getting muscle cramps in my foot and hoping that will help. And I started taking 150mg of Coenzyme Q10, but I forget why. Something to do with mitochondrial health.0
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https://ketolivewell.com/life-ext-multi-vitamin
If I were to ever limit myself to one supplement/vitamin source this would be the one based on my understand/experience to date.
Life Extension Mix Capsules are not a cheap option but working to live to be 110 and walking and talking the entire way is not the cheapest way out.
@Steph_Maks you will see I have one link about Q10 but I need to get up more but the long days and outside stuff is taking more of my time right now.0 -
AlexandraCarlyle wrote: »(You forgot the Partridge in the Pear Tree.... )
"... And a coff-ee soop-pahs-it-tor-ee!"3 -
ROTFLMAO!! (Which incidentally, contains all the letters of your name....!)1
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AlexandraCarlyle wrote: »One-a-day of:
'Senior' Multi-vitamins (no Iron)
Vitamin C
Folic Acid
Calcium Magnesium
Biotin.
@AlexandraCarlyle - Be careful taking Folic Acid instead of folate. Too much can create tons of problems... I know some have to take this from having that genetic issue, so that might be why you take it - I can't recall if you are the one with that issue.
Also, I think your multi-vitamin has K2 in it, if I remember, from looking it up once? Because if not, you need it desperately to go with that calcium. Calcium will sit about about D3 will help soak it up, but without the K2, they will be lazy and clutter up the arteries rather than go into the muscles and bones where they are needed. Magnesium, potassium (most get enough in food/too much is deadly), boron, and zinc are all important to that process, too....3 -
GaleHawkins wrote: »https://ketolivewell.com/life-ext-multi-vitamin
If I were to ever limit myself to one supplement/vitamin source this would be the one based on my understand/experience to date.
Life Extension Mix Capsules are not a cheap option but working to live to be 110 and walking and talking the entire way is not the cheapest way out.
@Steph_Maks you will see I have one link about Q10 but I need to get up more but the long days and outside stuff is taking more of my time right now.
@GaleHawkins - That one sounds amazing! I wonder how many of my individual ones I could swap out with this one. Going to have to get out a checklist!
EDITED TO ADD: 14 capsules a day??? That's a TON. $60 per month from what I find just in a quick search! Doing that, might be worth investigating the Calton's Nutreince, though I've not looked up that list in some time. Oh, and I wonder what the SOY is for??2 -
I take milk thistle and target mins calcium/magnesium/d3. I used to take handfuls of assorted supplements but I was getting headaches and panic attacks. So I quit.3
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@KnitOrMiss I will have to check out the soy part. It does get expensive taking the shotgun approach with name brand supplements. Often I only take 7 a day but like the trace stuff in them. When I go heavy on one supplement I may go light or skip some of my regular ones. Last night for example I took a mega dose of Vit D3 testing some research I read yesterday max reported dosage. It was my son with the burn from three days before and he had been on Pycnogenol for it for the two days prior so we just went with 50K IU in his case. We are both at work today.
https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/07/170706125020.htm
Vitamin D may improve sunburn, according to new clinical trial
Results show high doses of vitamin D reduce swelling, inflammation
I did reread the below before deciding on dosage.
https://vitamindcouncil.org/about-vitamin-d/am-i-getting-too-much-vitamin-d/
Very high levels of 25(OH)D can develop if you:
take more than 10,000 IU/day (but not equal to) everyday for 3 months or more. However, vitamin D toxicity is more likely to develop if you take 40,000 IU/day everyday for 3 months or more or if you take more than 300,000 IU in a 24 hour period.0 -
I think I take too many supplements and I've been wondering if they are really helping or not. Here's the ones I know I need because of bloodwork:
Multivitamin
Iron
Calcium
Vitamin D
Vitamin B1
Vtamin B12
DHEA
Here's the ones I take because I *think* I need them. How do I know if they are actually working?
MSM (joints)
Glucosomine/ Condrotin (sp?)
Magnesium (tried it because of restless leg. Doesn't work)
Potasium (tried because of restless leg. Doesn't work)
Alpha Lipoic Acid (blood sugar)
CoQ10
Krill Oil
Does anyone have an opinion on if I should go "cold turkey" or wean off?
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@KnitOrMiss I just saw the ad below on FB for doing ketosis out of a bottle. Since I make my own ketones this is $60 a month I do not have to pay for them in a bottle plus I get all of the additional side effects of nutritional ketosis and I can spend it on better supplements.
https://bulletproof.com/ketoprime?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=paid_social&utm_campaign=NE-ProspectingBlog1 -
msm and serrapeptase (carpal tunnel)
raspberry and dim (perimenopause)
pychnogenol (general preventative)
topical magnesium and a cell salt blend for improving hydration (nat mur, nat sulph, calc flour, and silicea if I remember right)1 -
@tcunbeliever how do you like taking the serrapeptase? Can you tell it is working?
I ordered some a couple years ago when I started on Wobenzym and did not want to do the two together so I have never tried it yet. I am heavy into Wobenzym for prevention for stroke, heart attack and metastasizing of cancer that some claim for it over the last 60 years it has been on the market. It and MSM were key parts of one cancer protocol that I tested. I now do MSM hit and miss but am religious with the Pycnogenol for several reasons. The son now asks for it from time to time.1 -
I think I take too many supplements and I've been wondering if they are really helping or not. Here's the ones I know I need because of bloodwork:
Multivitamin
Iron
Calcium
Vitamin D
Vitamin B1
Vtamin B12
DHEA
Here's the ones I take because I *think* I need them. How do I know if they are actually working?
MSM (joints)
Glucosomine/ Condrotin (sp?)
Magnesium (tried it because of restless leg. Doesn't work)
Potasium (tried because of restless leg. Doesn't work)
Alpha Lipoic Acid (blood sugar)
CoQ10
Krill Oil
Does anyone have an opinion on if I should go "cold turkey" or wean off?
@CraftHer - Dr. Berg has instructed that unless you have a very specific condition, low calcium in the presence of low vitamin D is nearly always because D absorbs calcium, but it requires K2 to drive that bus to the muscles and bones (and OUT of the arteries), the magnesium and potassium are the passport, and boron and zinc strengthen the cell walls and keep it where it needs to go. He says that hardly anyone needs to add Calcium unless on a specific and well-monitored dietary protocol (monitored by medical professionals). He says if you MUST take calcium, make sure to take it at night away from everything else so as not to overdose. Taking A and E 12 hours offset from your D can prevent accidental toxicity as well.
99% of my radiating bone pain and restless legs are handled by increasing my boron and adding zinc.
If you are adding B1 and B12 individually, you also need to make sure you are taking a B-Complex. Supplementing any B vitamin on it's own will slowly deplete the other B's. B1 is a nerve related thing, so getting nutritional yeast might also help (which probably contribute to the RLS, too). Dr. Berg has protocols for getting the nutritional yeast to help with nerve issues.
With the iron and B12 specifically, if you don't have a high enough stomach acid (if you have heartburn, you're likely missing one of the components, causing your body to overproduce the others to compensate), you are unlikely to ever be able to break these down naturally and be able to absorb them (I have no gallbladder, so all of my digestion is impacted, and I have to use special enzymes to help).
The others on the secondary list, I don't know much about...
TL;DR - Add K2 to go with the D/Calcium. Add Boron and Zinc for legs. Make sure getting B-Complex with B's/maybe pair with nutritional yeast. Check stomach acid levels/supplement as needed.2 -
GaleHawkins wrote: »@KnitOrMiss I will have to check out the soy part. It does get expensive taking the shotgun approach with name brand supplements. Often I only take 7 a day but like the trace stuff in them. When I go heavy on one supplement I may go light or skip some of my regular ones. Last night for example I took a mega dose of Vit D3 testing some research I read yesterday max reported dosage. It was my son with the burn from three days before and he had been on Pycnogenol for it for the two days prior so we just went with 50K IU in his case. We are both at work today.
https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/07/170706125020.htm
Vitamin D may improve sunburn, according to new clinical trial
Results show high doses of vitamin D reduce swelling, inflammation
I did reread the below before deciding on dosage.
https://vitamindcouncil.org/about-vitamin-d/am-i-getting-too-much-vitamin-d/
Very high levels of 25(OH)D can develop if you:
take more than 10,000 IU/day (but not equal to) everyday for 3 months or more. However, vitamin D toxicity is more likely to develop if you take 40,000 IU/day everyday for 3 months or more or if you take more than 300,000 IU in a 24 hour period.
Taking 40,000 IU/day with 1-2 Super K Plus pills (K2/M7 is 200 mcg per pill, if I recall) is how I finally got my levels up out of the 50's. However, my doctor told me to dial it back and within a month I felt like crap again. I've not gotten a new level recently. @GaleHawkins I followed Dr. Berg's protocol there. I think he said that he himself takes the 40,000 IU daily, with 200 mcg of K2/M7 (50 mcg per 10,000 iu) as preventative, as do his patients...0 -
Yes, that would be me. I have Thalassaemia Minor. I am regularly monitored...KnitOrMiss wrote: »AlexandraCarlyle wrote: »One-a-day of:
'Senior' Multi-vitamins (no Iron)
Vitamin C
Folic Acid
Calcium Magnesium
Biotin.
@AlexandraCarlyle - Be careful taking Folic Acid instead of folate. Too much can create tons of problems... I know some have to take this from having that genetic issue, so that might be why you take it - I can't recall if you are the one with that issue.
Yes, it has K2.Also, I think your multi-vitamin has K2 in it, if I remember, from looking it up once? Because if not, you need it desperately to go with that calcium. Calcium will sit about about D3 will help soak it up, but without the K2, they will be lazy and clutter up the arteries rather than go into the muscles and bones where they are needed. Magnesium, potassium (most get enough in food/too much is deadly), boron, and zinc are all important to that process, too....
Thank you so much for your concern. You're such an angel!
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@KnitOrMiss I may bump mind up. I was at 93> last Aug and this past May I was at 77 taking only 5000 units daily. I have felt fine today after taking the 200,000 units last night as a test after reading the new research yesterday. My fear of D3 is declining I guess.
If I had MS it would give mega dosing a try I expect.0 -
When my level was tested, it was 107, and he told me to dial it back. I did. Then, I ran out of my LE K2 and had to get the Jarrow, K2, M7 only. OMG, never do this. It is 90 mcg of only M7, and I swear, the difference, EVEN AFTER UPPING MY D3 back up...was palpable. I think I'd rather go without. Which is terribly sad, because I love Jarrow brand for literally everything else I take from them... but I don't know if it was the K1 or the K2 M4 I was missing out, but man, let me tell you, the M7 only was not enough for me.
I counted the days until I had my pennies back together to get my LE Super K Plus again....1 -
@GaleHawkins - what is the protocol for mega-dosing D3 for MS? I have several friends who suffer this!1
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K2+D3 & A
B Complex +B12 spray
Women's Multi
Cal-Mag
Potassium
All that plus Apple cider vinegar pills:)0 -
@River_Goddess - You take that A 12 hours after your D, right? Else it will compete for absorption!1
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GaleHawkins wrote: »@tcunbeliever how do you like taking the serrapeptase? Can you tell it is working?
I ordered some a couple years ago when I started on Wobenzym and did not want to do the two together so I have never tried it yet. I am heavy into Wobenzym for prevention for stroke, heart attack and metastasizing of cancer that some claim for it over the last 60 years it has been on the market. It and MSM were key parts of one cancer protocol that I tested. I now do MSM hit and miss but am religious with the Pycnogenol for several reasons. The son now asks for it from time to time.
I took it a while ago for carpal tunnel - I couldn't tell if it was helping, so I stopped. Just recently it was on sale at vitacost so I decided to give it another try...just started it again the last couple days, so far who knows...I'll keep you posted if I notice any difference!
boron - forgot that one, I'm taking that for carpal tunnel too...2 -
tcunbeliever wrote: »Boron - forgot that one, I'm taking that for carpal tunnel too...
Does boron seem make a difference?1
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