supplements

Multivitamin is all you really need. But, I recommend fish oil and protein if you aren't getting enough in your diet.

I take a pre-natal vitamin (although I'm not TTC or anything) plus fish oil. I feel a lot better on days I take them. I think it's the iron that really helps.

I am trying to figure out which ones will be most helpful to me at this point in time. I have been to a nutritionist but the amount of supplements(and money to get them) was slightly overwhelming and I tend to forget about them. I am wanting to keep better control on what and when I eat, I tend to graze. Every one is different on what the need as supplements and vitamins but any ideas to help would be appreciated.

BCAA
Isolate protein
Multi Vitamin
fish oil
glucosamine chondroitin
CLA - depends on your body
Milk Thistle
Hawthorne berry

Do you lift?
Pre-workout - mp assault or jack3d

I use a fiber supplement called Konjac Root that keeps me from grazing and having cravings. It also makes me feel full off of less food. Overall, it just makes it easier for me to keep my calorie consumption low.

I'm a Type 2 Diabetic so I take several to help with that, but in general I would think it depends on your activity type & level...

If you are into weight training, then your needs are going to be slightly different than a cardio person, and those are different from a couch dieter.

In general, fish or flax seed oil are the usual suspects. I add Coconut Oil caps as well along with a good multivitamin. (I take the oils even though I eat fish simply because I have a very low-fat intake and the oils help keep my mind sharp so I don't turn into a babbling idiot)

For weight training: BCAA's (help with recovery & reduce soreness) & whey protein (muscle repair) are all I use. Do your research on supps because some are just pure crap.

Eat clean and you should have no problem meeting your nutritional needs.

~ Cheers

I am trying to figure out which ones will be most helpful to me at this point in time. I have been to a nutritionist but the amount of supplements(and money to get them) was slightly overwhelming and I tend to forget about them. I am wanting to keep better control on what and when I eat, I tend to graze. Every one is different on what the need as supplements and vitamins but any ideas to help would be appreciated.

BCAA
Isolate protein
Multi Vitamin
fish oil
glucosamine chondroitin
CLA - depends on your body
Milk Thistle
Hawthorne berry

Do you lift?
Pre-workout - mp assault or jack3d

He's pretty much got it covered. Get a liquid or powder form multi-vitamin because tablets like Centrum or one a day end up getting 90% of them peed out. Milk thistle and hawthorne if you're doing a lot of drinking or damaging kidneys and liver.

Those pre-workouts IMHO absolutely blow. Jack3d is garbage... mostly just caffeine and has 1.3g creatine monohydrate which is about a QUARTER of what you need for actual creatine monohydrate supplementation.

Get something like Engaged by nutracore nutrition. Or rhino revolution by muscle sport international if you want something really strong.

None of it is necessary but:

I like creatine monohydrate and whey protein.

I also like some caffeine for working out.

Agree with the others that most of it is just crap to waste your money.

I am trying to figure out which ones will be most helpful to me at this point in time. I have been to a nutritionist but the amount of supplements(and money to get them) was slightly overwhelming and I tend to forget about them. I am wanting to keep better control on what and when I eat, I tend to graze. Every one is different on what the need as supplements and vitamins but any ideas to help would be appreciated.

BCAA
Isolate protein
Multi Vitamin
fish oil
glucosamine chondroitin
CLA - depends on your body
Milk Thistle
Hawthorne berry

Do you lift?
Pre-workout - mp assault or jack3d

He's pretty much got it covered. Get a liquid or powder form multi-vitamin because tablets like Centrum or one a day end up getting 90% of them peed out. Milk thistle and hawthorne if you're doing a lot of drinking or damaging kidneys and liver.

Those pre-workouts IMHO absolutely blow. Jack3d is garbage... mostly just caffeine and has 1.3g creatine monohydrate which is about a QUARTER of what you need for actual creatine monohydrate supplementation.

Get something like Engaged by nutracore nutrition. Or rhino revolution by muscle sport international if you want something really strong.

Jack3d is pretty good, **** makes you go insane, i dont take 1 scoop though i have to take 3 in order for it to work. Assault on the other hand makes you work hard on 2 scoops. You sweat so much and your heart wants to moonwalk across the table. As for vitamins, any all in one is good. I have tried many supplements for pre workout and these 2 are the only ones i feel. I have tried rhino, it wasnt that good. It all depends on your body though. You cant go by me.. Go to bodybuilding.com everything on there is cheap.

For creatine, Con-Cret is good stuff

What does fish oil aid you with?

go here

http://www.webmd.com/vitamins-supplements/ingredientmono-993-FISH OIL.aspx?activeIngredientId=993&activeIngredientName=FISH OIL

BCAA
Isolate protein
Multi Vitamin
fish oil
glucosamine chondroitin
CLA - depends on your body
Milk Thistle
Hawthorne berry

Do you lift?
Pre-workout - mp assault or jack3d

From that list this is what I would buy first if were going more for necessity:
Multi Vitamin
Fish Oil
Protein
Glucosamine and Chondroitin

The rest are fine too although with the milk thistle, you could just use a cleansing formula that contains milk thistle as that is what it is for. If money is an issue I wuld stick with the 4 I mentioned before obtaining the rest.

I am trying to figure out which ones will be most helpful to me at this point in time. I have been to a nutritionist but the amount of supplements(and money to get them) was slightly overwhelming and I tend to forget about them. I am wanting to keep better control on what and when I eat, I tend to graze. Every one is different on what the need as supplements and vitamins but any ideas to help would be appreciated.

Multivitamin and a healthy diet

This will do for sure!

I am trying to figure out which ones will be most helpful to me at this point in time. I have been to a nutritionist but the amount of supplements(and money to get them) was slightly overwhelming and I tend to forget about them. I am wanting to keep better control on what and when I eat, I tend to graze. Every one is different on what the need as supplements and vitamins but any ideas to help would be appreciated.

Any supplement regime should be individualised, to take account of what you don't get in your diet, any health issues you have or any additional demands on your body such as intense exercise. You don't need vitamins or minerals unless you have a deficiency or a poor diet, you can all you need and more from the full rainbow of fruit, vegetables, oily fish, beans, lentils, nuts and seeds. Do you eat all those regularly?

Having said that high strength fish oil is the one supplement I routinely recommend to my nutrition clients, few eat enough oily fish and long chain omega-3s play a role in every cell, organ and process in the body. Frankly I wouldn't trust any 'nutritionist' who recommends long lists of supplements, did they actually have a degree in dietetics or nutrition? What did they recommend?

I take:

- Multivitamin (since I KNOW that I'm not getting enough of everything through food)
- Vitamin C (only in winter because it helps me from catching every cold that everybody else gets)
- Vitex and Saw Palmetto (For my PCOS)
- MSM (started taking for hair but found it helped my creaky joints...I'm young but my joints make me sound like I'm 80 and MSM REALLY helped with that)
- Vitamin D (only in winter again since where I live we get little sunlight all winter and I find I get more depressed during winter)
- Omega 3s (helps my skin a lot...when I ran out once and didn't buy more right away my skin went NUTS; also I take just Omega 3s instead of 369s since during my research I read that it's common to get more Omega 6s and 9s than 3s so most people only needs the 3s)
- B complex (majorly helps my energy; forgot to put these in my week vitamin organizer and that week I felt like the walking dead...seriously...I didn't realize how huge of a difference the vitamin b's helped my energy)

Of course these I know work for myself. It's not something I'd suggest to other people (unless they're in the same situation as me). Which supplements help you may be different. I have a reason for each of the ones I take and I have noticed a difference with all of them.

to figure out which ones will be most helpful to me at this point in time. I have been to a nutritionist but the amount of supplements(and money to get them) was slightly overwhelming and I tend to forget about them. I am wanting to keep better control on what and when I eat, I tend to graze. Every one is different on what the need as supplements and vitamins but any ideas to help would be appreciated.

BCAA
Isolate protein
Multi Vitamin
fish oil
glucosamine chondroitin
CLA - depends on your body
Milk Thistle
Hawthorne berry

Do you lift?
Pre-workout - mp assault or jack3d
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Whey and fish oil are the only useful stuff on that list.
CLA doesn't work.
JAck3d is garbage
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This, and sack your nutritionist. http://www.jissn.com/content/7/1/7 has all the info you need. If you check out table 3, you'll see most of the stuff people are telling you to take here appear on the ineffective list.