Do you take any vitamin/mineral supplements?

I take a boatload of things, though I suspect at least a couple are a waste. Here's what I shove in my face every day:

- Glucosamine + Chondroitin + Msm With Maganese and Vitamin C x4 - Jarrow Formulas - supposed to help with joints
- Vitamin B Complex x1 - Up&Up (Target) - good for energy and cuz I don't get a lot of various types of Vit B
- Calcium 600mg +D 400iu - Up&Up (Target) - My family tends to have low calcium, so i figure it's time to start that, especially since i've kinda cut out milk-ish
- Iron Tablets 45mg - Up&Up (Target) - prescribed by doctor
- Milk Thistle - 200mg Silymarin per Capsule - Trader Joes - i have poor liver health, in general, and this is supposed to help
- Adults' Multivitamin/Multimineral Dietary Supplement - Up&Up (Target) - Covers the bases, especially on the days I eat crap, so I'm covered on the things I need
- Fish Oil (EPA 360mg, DHA 240mg, Other 120mg) - NatureMade - All the world says this is good for me...good insurance, i guess?

What do you take?

Harvard Medical School has a newsletter type thing that I came across, this is one of the articles, makes for interesting reading... http://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletters/Harvard_Mens_Health_Watch/2012/April/supplements-a-scorecard

Having said that, I take vitamin D and an aspirin daily.

Cheers,
Collin

multivitamin and Iron (just found out my iron levels are low)

I just found out I was severely vitamin D(17ng/ml) deficient, so yeah I take that.

FYI to all those who take Magnesium, magnesium oxide (most common in MVIs and OTCs) has horrible bioavailability. MgSO4 and Mg-Citrate (200mg or less initially) has much better bioavailability. Be forewarned though, magnesium does have a laxative effect when dosed too high.

I take a gummy multivitamin every day and that's it, but I've been thinking of taking a B-complex with Biotin to help my hair grow. Other than that I do eat some fortified foods, like special k cereal or carnation instant breakfast. I do have a tendency of being iron-deficient but I'm trying to change that through diet alone.

I don't take all every day - I change it based on how I'm feeling:
multivitamin with iron, on heavy days or if I'm getting a lot of headaches I take an iron supplement
CoQ10
5HTP (nightly - I'm consistent on this one)
Vitamin D3 (2000 mg) fairly consistently particularly when we have a lot of dark days or I'm starting to drag
SAM-e

I take a multi vtamin +iron and because I cant seem to get Vitamin D up I am taking that too. I also take Osteo Biflex for joints since I am very active and not in my 20"s anymore.
As for Calcium I found that I use Almond milk for protein shakes and that gets it up enough along with some veggies that are high and other diary products Sorry to say I am not giving up my ie cream

Way too many lol! I think I am single handedly keeping the supplement business in business lol!

What I take every day....

Magnesium Citrate (250 mg)

Glucosamine (1500mg) and Chondroitin (1250mg) and msm complex (100mg)

Biotin (5000mcg)

CoQ10 (200mg)

Flaxseed Oil (1000mg)

DHA (900mg)

Adult Enzyme Blend (248mg)

Cranberry (300mcg)

Chewable Children's Multivitamin with Iron

Women's Complete Probiotic (90 billion live cultures/12 strains)

I also take 10mg of loraridine for allergies and skin issues.

I take a women's daily multivitamin, an Omega 3 supplement, and am on prescription Vitamin D supplement (I'm deficient)

I don't, but I want to... I want to take vitamin D - It's a fact that EVERYONE in my country is deficient from october to march, mostly-indoor people more so, and longer so, which would apply to me... And I also want to take extra calcium: Last year ago, I had my bone mass measured, and it was only 97% of what it's supposed to be for my age. Which is still in the 'normal', but I would much rather be at 103%! Everyones bonemass (ESPECIALLY women) drop significantly after their 20's and keeps dropping for the rest of their life, so the more bone mass I have now, the more I'll have left when I'm a 100!

Plus, some iron and folic acid... The first because most women are defficient, and the latter, if you get pregnant, it's actually optimal if you've gotten extra folic acid for 2 years prior. I don't plan on having children in the next 2 years, but in case I do, I would like to have provided the best things.

I can't really take any supplements though, as I'm often a 'test person' in nutritional studies etc. at my university, and you're not allowed to take supplements then.

Iron and Calcium/Vitamin D, both on doctor's advice, and a multivitamin, although I'm not sure I actually need the latter at this point. (My B vitamins used to be low. Not sure they still are, due to dietary and lifestyle changes.) I used to take large doses of vitamin C if I feel like I'm getting sick, but when I looked at my micronutrients according to MFP, I'm getting well over the RDA of C (and A) most days, so that may be a waste.

I started taking fish oil when the third medical professional advised I do so!

I just found out I was severely vitamin D(17ng/ml) deficient, so yeah I take that.

Looks like a few of us on here are Vitamin D deficient... what gives?

I'm guessing lots of people live up north!

From what my doctor told me, it's fairly rare for people in the north not to be somewhat D-deficient, at least people with desk jobs. We spend a lot of time indoors, and when the weather is good enough to tempt us outside, women especially tend to be religious about wearing sunscreen. Sunscreen's great, but it cutd down on Vitamin D intake.

Deffinitely, my nutrion proffessor told me that EVERYONE here in Denmark, even the most outdoorsy, are vit D dificient during winter (October-March) as we have so little sun. Here in January, we only had 17hours of sunlight all put together, and it wasn't intensive sun either, so that's simply not enough to get all you vitamin D, even if you were outside for every one of those hours.
You can't even "save up" vitamin D from the summer. So we are all just deficient.

That's where the vegan-myth comes from, the countries who drink the most milk, are actually those with poorest calcium deposits in their bones: But that is more to do with the coincidence that it's nordic countries who drink all the milk! But have no vit D to make sure it gets to the bones