Supplements---What do you take?

I take nothing. I get all my nutrients from food. IMO Thats where they should come from.

I am the same, I don't even take a vitamin each day to be honest.

The only time I would consider taking supplements is if I were a vegan as they are unable to get some of the B vitamins and some other stuff from their foods.

Calcium+D and Iron pills; doctors orders :flowerforyou:
Oh and a Fish Oil tablet for my heart!

I actually work as a contracted writer and researcher for a supplements company, so I know my ****

Supplements work if you know how to use them.

I currently take:
Women's Multi
B Complex
Magnesium, Zinc, and Calcium

Don't forget to take your vitamins and supplements with lunch! Don't drink caffeine any time during or before you take your vitamins!

Didn't know not to take them with my coffee in the morning. What does it do?

I take muti silver morning and night. plus b complex once aday, magnesium once, and lectihin twice I would take cq 10 if I could offord to.

I take an iron pill several times each week and a B complex daily because my doctor says so. I hate the iron, because I get nauseous, but it beats weeks of iron infusions at the hospital. Both are because I become deficient without supplementation - I get my levels tested 1-2 times per year. I have intestinal damage from eating gluten and cannot absorb nutrients well from foods.

I've BEEN tested, and I take vitamin D and iron on the Doc's orders!


And for the "fish burps" dilemma: Try FREEZING them. Never had a problem with fish burps myself!

I have accumulated my supplements over time, trying things and seeing if they seem to help. I used to have terrible cold-sores in my mouth, for example. Discovered B12 every day radically improved that. I almost never get them, and when I do, they are much less severe and heal much more quickly. So for 25 years I've been taking B12 daily. I then found that "GCF Chromium" significantly helped me with sugar balance problems--that also was a dramatic change. Again, I tend to try these supplements on a 60 day trial, watching various aspects of my health, and then deciding if I can see any change.

I also take a sustained-release melatonin supplement at night--us middle-aged men tend to develop irregular sleep patterns, and this helps though I'm still in the trial phase.

I won't go over my whole list, though it's really not very long. I will say that despite being overweight, at 57 I take no prescription medication except for my ADD. No blood-pressure meds, though my parents did, and my dad died of a stroke-heart attack.

I think supplements can be very useful, but I also think the supplement industry is very exploitive. The key is to decide ahead, what is it that you think a supplement will do for you? Journal that aspect of your health for a couple months. Then start the supplement, and journal for another couple months, then stop for a while. See if you can really detect a change. Sometimes you have to try different brands. No chromium, for example, did any good for me, but then I tried "GCF Chromium" from one of the big supplement companies, and it had an impact. I am not naming the company but will respond privately, because I don't want to promote one company.

Thanks for this thread. Very instructive.

dont bother. it doesnt matter what your background is. these people love being slaves to big pharma.

Ooooh! Conspiracy theories. Gotta love it. Only you have it bass ackwards.

See, Big Pharma wants to have all supplements classed as drugs. It will put the mom & pop suppliers out of business and Big Pharma can charge more. Not to mention having to go through FDA approval which would mean taking many supplements off the shelves entirely.

The lack of cheap supplementation means that society is ill more often. Thus - more money for Big Pharma!

Another interesting angle.

omg, lol, people get so fired up on here and go to the extreme with the name calling and anger. Chill out, remember we are all here for the same cause, to improve our health. Have respect for others opinions and choose to follow the advice that you think is correct and best for you. OMG

Agreed!

multi, BCAA and whey blend

There is a reason the FDA does not put their stam of approval on vitamins. I believe most vitamins are processed junk and you can read a number of articles about it, here is one http://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20100401/multivitamins-linked-to-breast-cancer-risk

i was skeptical about vitamins too. If you read the ingredients on most over the counter vitamins there's a bunch of words that you cant even pronounce.. whether or not the words are really something good for you i dont know but i like to know what i'm putting into my body. the vitamins i take are whole food vitamins from an organic store. the bottle tells you which foods in the vitamin your getting your vitamins from.

I use chia seeds and fish oil capsules.

I used to use iron and other supplements, but they actually make me sick. My friend is a pharmacist and said this isn't unusual, sometimes that it happens. She did advise that many times when that happens, pharmacists will recommend taking prenatal vitamins. I'm considering trying that to see if it has better results.

Women's Multi and a B Complex - daily.

I like the natural prostate supplements like Super Beta Prostate Supplement that are free of side-effects. It's great because I get a dozen essential nutrients along with beta-sitosterol. http://www.newvitality.com/

Right now I'm taking---

Double dose of multivitamins
Fiber supplement ( not too keen on veggies or too many fruits that I would get a lot of fiber from)
Spirulina (nutrients from veggies that I don't eat)
L-carnitine
B-complex
Fastin XR (awesome appetite suppressant)

What do you guys take and why?

I'm trying to stay around 100g of carbs per day and was considering taking a carb-blocker too...

That adds up to some pretty expensive urine.

None. I should probably be taken some calcium with vitamin D sups since osteoporosis runs in the fam