supplements???

I take a daily vitamin, when I remember that is...

Don't forget that a great deal of vitamins and minerals are fat soluble. So when you loose weight, these vitamins will enter your bloodstream. And then you would have too much of some of the vitamins and minerals. And sometimes it isn't good to have an "overdosis" of the vitamins.

I take a daily vitamin religiously and I add flaxseed to my oatmeal in the a.m.

Hi! For health reasons, I see a Naturopathic doctor. She has prescribed a women's multivitamin (we don't get enough vit. D and calcium without it). I also take a vegan oil capsule, also have taken fish oil caps. I take probiotic capsules to equalize the good/bacteria in the gut. I take other supplements specifically for joint and muscle tenderness, and for adrenal insufficiency. I also take extra Vit. C during the day, especially if I'm feeling sick (like Airborne, or EmergenC). I detox frequently, so to start a diet I always buy a detox kit, runs about $25 at a natural food store. It's mostly milk thistle to detoxify the liver, a fiber supp, and a laxative. I really feel awesome after the detox! I hope this was useful info! Good luck.

I take a multivitamin. My husband takes flaxseed oil and he wants me too as well since I don't eat fish and don't get a lot of Omega-3s.

Nope, I don't bother with 'em, .. very little of most supplements are actually absorbed by the body (ever notice how bright yellow/orange your pee is when you take supplements? That's some mighty expensive pee there, and it's just gets flushed down the toliet!) . Supplements are REALLY expensive! The only one I ever would recommed, would be the infrequent use of a fiber supplement for those 'difficult' times.. Your body does a great job of regulating the vitamins/minerals in your system at any given time. It stores and releases them as needed. So, say you eat alot of calcium one day, your body uses what it needs, stores what it can, and elimates the rest. Then, say the next day, maybe you don't eat enough calcium to meet your body's need. Your body then pulls what it needs from the calcium it stored earlier. And all of this goes on unnoticed! 24/7. The body is such an amazing, efficient, energy utilizing machine. Treat it well and let it do it's job. It's really, really, good at it!

Now, I am aware there are execeptions. Such as those being treated for eatting disorders, or had certain gastric operations involving the small intestine, or alcoholics, etc,, But for those of us without absorbtion disorders, most supplements only prove to make us lighter in the wallet.

My doctor at Cedars Sinai created a daily regimen for me based on my health history, my current lifestyle, and my goals:

-1x Multivitamin (food based, easier on the tummy)
-1x B Complex
-1x Vitamin C
-2x Calcium (w/ Vitamin D)
-1x Cod Liver Oil

I used what some would consider an "overdose" of several vitamins, including fish oil and red yeast rice in addition to basically what you have listed above to drop my cholesterol from 264 to 192 in about 6 months. But yet, some would say my body would not absorb all that stuff I was taking. Hmm. I did take the fish oil and a multi in smaller doses for probably the year prior to that and had an overall normal but fairly healthy diet and it just would not come down. The singular change I made during that time was to take far more than the RDA of those vitamins. I had my blood work done every 60 days during that time and never was there any problems, on the contrary my cholesterol was consistently falling.

One last piece of advice. Be careful when obtaining advice from certain forum posters on these boards, as they are actually vendors of 'fitness/health' products and MAY present somewhat biased answers to questions such as this. If you want safe and accurate information on the web that comes from highly scrutinized research and clinical trials, try ... The CDC (Center for Disease Control), and the NIH (National Institute of Health), or the Clevend Clinic. Those are always good places to start. BTW No upstanding heathcare professional would ever tell a healthy person to take 'overdoses' of vitamins, minerals, or herbal supplements.

Ok that tinfoil hat looks good on you by the way. Seriously, did you even go to any of those links I posted? To the original poster, I'm sure you understand that under the context putting "overdoses" in quotes like that was intended to show sarcasm, and to further make the point that what people think is an "overdose" is actually a perfectly acceptable amount of a vitamin to take.

In fact, what most people think of an "overdose", can actually be ingested just from very fresh organically tended foods during the course of a day. How is that an overdose or bad for you if we get it from quality food? The problem is we don't get the nutrition we should be getting from our normal foods for varying reasons. Are there any people here who juice their own carrots? Well if you do, and have have a nice 6-8 oz. glass of carrot juice, do you have any idea just how many IU of vitamin A you are getting? Well suffice to say it's way beyond what the RDA says you need, and beyond what most people think (erroneously) is the safe amount of Vitamin A. Anybody know anyone who's OD'ed on carrot juice? If that sounds ridiculous it's because it is.

On the expensive pee issue, there have actually been in the lab, scientific studies that have been published in respected medical journals on this matter. Test subjects were given 10,000mg of Vitamin C in a 24 hour period, and all urine expelled during that 24 hours was tested and found to be 1500mg of Vitamin C. Meaning the remainder was absorbed into the body. The notion of the "expensive pee" all comes from a single, biased and unfounded on his part statement by Fred Stare, professor then at Harvard School of Public Health. For some reason, like a lot of myths, it has taken hold amongst those who latch on to such statements and pass them on as fact without doing any of the research themselves. There is about 80 years of vitamin research out there (yes, surprise surprise vitamins are not a recent fad and actually pre-date big pharm) so what I would suggest is you (the original poster) do some of your own research outside of this site and come to your own conclusion. Now for my big product placement..................:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: