MelRC117 wrote: »

sljohnson1207 wrote: »

If you are taking a prenatal with dha, why the extra folic acid and biotin? Aren't those covered in your prenatal? other than that, the CLA and fish oil...usually those don't come in something else unless it's a "diet pill" or "energy supplement".

That was my same question. Getting adequate folic acid while being pregnant is important (I think that's the one...its been a couple years lol) so its usually pretty well covered in a prenatal.

Dragonwolf wrote: »

ybell300 wrote: »

I hope not to sound dumb but why are you all taking prenatal vitamins? I only took them when I was pregnant and could barely stomach them. If this is something I should take I will try again. Just curious

I don't do it, personally, so I may be off, but it's common in part because it contains DHAs and folic acid, which are things commonly useful to people in general, and specifically to women with PCOS (though I'd argue for finding a separate folate supplement, instead of a folic acid one, but that's a different matter altogether).

Lei9785gha wrote: »

This is not a low carb queation but guys r great and I know ur not a dr and ur thoughts will be ur thoughts only I jus want to hear ur opinion. ..

I think im taking too many vitamins/supplements...I just think a seperate onw for eveeything is too much not that the many different benefits are...so currwntly I take a seperate pill for: cla tonalin, omega three fish oil, folic acid, prenatal with dha, and biotin..geesh can I combine some or make a magic pill with all of this n one with the same potency..geessshhhh.....is there another group or forum for this?

I will seek a physicians help and also im visiting gnc this wk to ask the same questions..

Thanks

You think you take a lot, you should see my son's laundry list of supplements. He's up to 7 different ones, plus his multivitamins, and we're only about a third of the way through adding everything. We have a multitude of deficiencies to thank for that one (induced at least in part by several rounds of antibiotics when he was younger, thanks to recurring ear and sinus infections).

Most of the things you named can't really be combined -- at least not into one "magic pill", though you are duplicating some things.

You pretty much have to get the fish oil as a separate supplement (and the good ones should be refrigerated, not on the shelf at room temperature, due to the sensitivity of the Omega-3 oils). You can probably combine the fish oil and CLA by going with something like Green Pastures fermented cod liver oil and high vitamin butter oil (CLA is found abundantly in butter, btw). That will get you a number of other vitamins, too, including A and D.

The prenatal should have folic acid in it already, though if you're going to go with a separate source for it, consider finding one that's folate, not folic acid. Folate is the active form that the body can use directly, while folic acid is the man-made form that the body needs to first convert.

That said, you can get sufficient amounts of a lot of those through your diet. Egg yolks are a rich source of folate, biotin, Omega-3s, and numerous vitamins. Butter, as I mentioned, provides tons of CLA and vitamins A and D (and butter's vitamin A is like liver's -- the active form that the body can use directly, unlike the beta carotene precursor found in vegetables). So, unless you have a reason to supplement with them, you may be able to drop those supplements entirely if your diet has a fair amount of foods like those.